Zimmerman and West

Question 1

Theory synopsis (Zimmerman and west)

Answer 1

Recorded 11 conversations and found that 96% of interruptions were from male and only 4% were female

Question 2

What model is this? (Zimmerman and west)

Answer 2

Dominance model

Question 3

Why is this theory weak? (Zimmerman and west)

Answer 3

they only recorded 11 conversations between white, middle class, under 35 year olds

Question 4

What is it insinuated in Zimmerman and west’s theory that men engineer?

Answer 4

Female silence

Question 5

Who’s theory is better developed than Z and W?

Answer 5

Geoffrey Beattie’s

Question 6

Why would men be expected to interrupt more? (Zimmerman and west)

Answer 6

Because they use more overlaps

Question 7

What could it be said that interruptions also indicate as well as dominance? (Zimmerman and west)

Answer 7

Interest

Question 8

Is Zimmerman and west’s theory representative of the whole male gender?

Answer 8

No

Question 9

What did Beattie say about Zimmerman and west’s data?

Answer 9

“You might simply have one very voluble man”