Chapter Six

Question 1

Social Penetration Theory

Answer 1

describes how self-disclosure changes as people develop their relationships
Six dimensions of social penetration theory
Depth: the extent to which self-disclosure is highly intimate or personal
Breadth: the number of topics about which people feel free to disclose
Frequency: how often people self-disclose with each other
Duration: how long people engage in self-disclosure
Valence: the positive or negative feelings or attitudes about messages, people, and relationships
Veracity: how truthful the information that someone is disclosing is

Question 2

Communication Privacy Model

Answer 2

Communication privacy management: we cherish our rights to privacy and ability to control information. This theory focuses on how individuals maintain privacy boundaries

Question 3

Hyper-Personal Model

Answer 3

Hyper-personal model: we develop stronger impressions of people in mediated spaces because we overly rely on limited, mostly verbal information

Question 4

Rebound Effect

Answer 4

Rebound effect; we can temporarily suppress thoughts about a negative event if we are away from it, but those thoughts will come flooding back if something triggers it