Authors and Theories

Question 1

Who is responsible for the Hierarchy of Needs?

Answer 1

Abraham Maslow

Question 2

Who is responsible for the Cultivation Theory?

Answer 2

George Gerbner

Question 3

Who is responsible for Social Penetration?

Answer 3

Irwin Altman

Question 4

Who is responsible for Groupthink?

Answer 4

Irving L. Janis

Question 5

Who is responsible for Instrumental and Terminal Values?

Answer 5

Milton Rokeach

Question 6

Who is responsible for Socal Darwinism?

Answer 6

Herbert Spencer

Thomas Malthus

Question 7

Who is responsible for Attribution theory?

Answer 7

Founded by: Fritz Heider

Advanced by: Harold Kelly and Bernard Weiner

Question 8

Who is responsible for Transactional Analysis: Parent Adult Child roles?

Answer 8

Eric Berne

Question 9

Who is responsible for Relational Stages?

Answer 9

Knapp

Question 10

Who is responsible for Socal Exchange?

Answer 10

George Homans

Question 11

Who is responsible for Cognitive Dissonance?

Answer 11

Leon Festinger

Question 12

Who is responsible for the Theory of Needs (FIRO)?

Answer 12

William Shutz

Question 13

Who is responsible for Uncertainty Reduction?

Answer 13

Charles Berger

Richard Calabrese

Question 14

Who is responsible for Dramatism?

Answer 14

Kenneth Burke

Question 15

Who is responsible for Standpoint theory?

Answer 15

Sandra Harding and Julia T. Wood

Question 16

What is the Cultivation theory?

Answer 16

exposure to media, over time, subtly “cultivates” viewers’ perceptions of reality.

Question 17

What is Social Penetration?

Answer 17

as relationships develop, interpersonal communication moves from relatively shallow, non-intimate levels to deeper, more intimate ones

Question 18

What is Groupthink?

Answer 18

when individual thinking or individual creativity is lost or subverted to stay within the comfort zone

Question 19

What are Instrumental Values?

Answer 19

Instrumental Values are not the end goal, but rather provides the means by which an end goal is accomplished.

EX: Being polite

Question 20

What are Terminal Values?

Answer 20

The end goals we want to achieve in our lifetime

EX: Inner peace, happiness

Question 21

What is Social Darwinism?

Answer 21

the idea that certain people become powerful in society because they are innately better.

“Survival of the fittest”

Question 22

What is the Attribution Theory?

Answer 22

deals with how the social perceiver uses the information to arrive at causal explanations for events. It examines what information is gathered and how it is combined to form a causal judgment

Question 23

What is Transactional Analysis?

Answer 23

The study of interactions between people
- Parent -Adult -Child

EX: Sweet Petes- Pete comes in to help with making caramel. Sam doesn’t want to learn….-Child

Question 24

What are Relational Stages?

Answer 24

Interaction in which relationships come together and apart

(initiating, experimenting, intensifying, integrating, and bonding)
(differentiating, circumscribing, stagnating, avoiding, and terminating).

Question 25

What is the Social Exchange Theory?

Answer 25

social behavior is the result of an exchange process. The purpose of this exchange is to maximize benefits and minimize costs.

Question 26

What is Cognitive Dissonance?

Answer 26

a situation involving conflicting attitudes, beliefs or behaviors.

EX: (behavior) and they know that smoking causes cancer (cognition

Question 27

What are the Theory of Needs?

FIRO

Answer 27

interpersonal needs that claim to account for both the what and the why of an individual’s actions toward others.
1. Inclusion 2. Control 3. Affection

Question 28

What is the Uncertainty Reduction?

Answer 28

people have a need to reduce uncertainty about others by gaining information about them.

Question 29

What is Dramatism?

Answer 29

A pentad used to understand relationships.

EX:

Question 30

What is the Standpoint Theory?

Answer 30

the feminist theoretical perspective that argues that knowledge stems from a social position.