DEFINTIONS

Question 1

social penetration

Answer 1

the process of relationship bonding whereby individuals move from superficial communication to more intimate communication

Question 2

comparison level

Answer 2

a standard representing what people feel they should receive in the way of rewards and costs from a particular relationship

Question 3

comparison levels for alternatives

Answer 3

refers to the minimum level of relational rewards that an individual is willing to accept

Question 4

how are comparison levels for alternatives measured?

Answer 4

rewards that are available from alternative relationships AND
from being alone

Question 5

praxis

Answer 5

refers to the notion that humans are rational decision-makers, wee are choice-makers

Question 6

totality

Answer 6

acknowledges the interdependence of people in a relationship (if one thing happens to one member of a relationship, the other will be affected)

Question 7

motion

Answer 7

refers to the processual nature of relationships. Relationships are not linear

Question 8

contradiction

Answer 8

fundamental fact of relational life, refers to oppositions (the pushes and pulls of the tensions in relational life are ongoing)

Question 9

collective boundary

Answer 9

a boundary around private information that includes more than one person

Question 10

personal boundary

Answer 10

a boundary around private information that includes just one person

Question 11

boundary linkage

Answer 11

the connections forming boundary alliances between people

Question 12

boundary coordination

Answer 12

one of the processes in the privacy rule management system; describes how we manage private information that is co-owned

Question 13

boundary turbulence

Answer 13

conflicts about boundary expectations and regulations

Question 14

boundary permeability

Answer 14

the extent to which information is able to pass through a boundary

Question 15

equivocality

Answer 15

the extent to which organizational messages are uncertain, ambiguous and/or unpredictable

Question 16

rhetoric

Answer 16

the available means of persuasion. communication used to influence the attitudes or behaviors of others

Question 17

audience analysis

Answer 17

the process of evaluating an audience and its background (sex, age, education level, occupation)

Question 18

three proofs of persuasion

Answer 18

ethos, pathos, logos

Question 19

ethos

Answer 19

ethics, credibility

Question 20

pathos

Answer 20

emotion, feeling

Question 21

logos

Answer 21

logic

Question 22

forensic rhetoric

Answer 22

pertains to speaker prompting feelings of guilt or innocence from an audience (courtroom)

Question 23

epideictic rhetoric

Answer 23

goal of praising, honoring, blaming, or shaming (ceremonial)

Question 24

deliberative rhetoric

Answer 24

type of speaking designed to determine an audience’s course of action (political)

Question 25

syllogism

Answer 25

a set of propositions that are related to one another and draw a conclusion from the major and minor premise.

Question 26

enthymeme

Answer 26

as a syllogism based on probabilities, signs and examples.