L10.1 - Reduced Cues SD in Virtual Relationships

Question 1

Virtual relationships lack

Answer 1

Cues that are present in FtF relationships

Question 2

Examples of cues which are absent

Answer 2

Physical appearance
Emotional state
Facial expressions
Tone of voice

Question 3

Disindividuation encourages

Answer 3

Disinhibition

Question 4

Describe deindividuation

Answer 4

People feel they have a reduced sense of identity

Question 5

Describe disinhibition

Answer 5

People feel comfortable saying negative and hurtful things they wouldn’t in real life

Question 6

Virtual relationships might involve

Answer 6

More blunt and aggressive comments

Question 7

Disinhibition leads to

Answer 7

Reduced self-disclosure

Question 8

There’s less self-disclosure because

Answer 8

They feel that revealing personal info will be met by hostility or ridicule

Question 9

• related to other cues

Answer 9

People use other cues like emoticons
May take time to reply = more intimate
Nonverbal cues

Question 10

• related to research evidence

Answer 10

Lack of it
Unsupported
May be invalid

Question 11

• to validity

Answer 11

Devised before 2000s when social media wasn’t large

Has rapidly advanced and progressed which may change how people SD and behave