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15. Personal and cultural preferences naturally play an important role in establishing
and evaluating personal relationships.
16. Perceptions influence the development of identities and all meaning making.
17. Perceptions are not based on relational and cultural understandings.
18. Perceptions involve the process of actively selecting, organizing, and evaluating
information, activities, situations, and people, and essentially naming and giving
significance to all the things that make up your world.
19. A person’s motives or needs at a particular moment in time will also influence our
selection process.
20. You are more likely to expose yourself to that which counters your beliefs, values,
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and attitudes.
21. Selective exposure also explains why people might be more likely to spend time
with individuals whose beliefs, values, and attitudes are similar to their own.
22. Selective exposure means you are more likely to recall things that support your
beliefs, values, and attitudes.
23. You are more likely to recall things that do not support your beliefs, values, and
attitudes.
24. Schemata are mental structures that are used to organize information partly by
clustering associated material.
25. Back region refers to a frame where a social interaction is regarded as under public
scrutiny, so people have to be on their best behavior or acting out their professional
roles or intended “faces.”
26. Front region refers to a frame where a social interaction is regarded as not under
public scrutiny, so people do not have to present their public faces.
27. When it comes to romantic relationships, for instance, sexual-related topics are met
with privacy considerations.
28. Boundary turbulence may also occur when boundaries are revised due to changes
in how a person evaluates the need for privacy about particular topic.
29. Traditional-aged college students often experience turbulence with their parents.
Short Answer
1. What term explains why people might be more likely to spend time with individuals
whose beliefs, values, and attitudes are similar to their own?
2. What is the term for when we create a rut by allowing certain ways of behaving and
viewing the world to become deeply ingrained in our thinking?
3. Self-disclosure is an important aspect of identity construction, but what is another
way that people construct identities that involves stories?
4. Selective retention is also referred to as ______.
5. What is it called when people tell stories about themselves, taking special care with
what they say, particularly for occasions such as job interviews or sales pitches?
6. What kind of story is a person telling when saying “I’m Hispanic” or “I’m a true
Southerner?”
7. ______ refers to how language can give people an identity and then force them to
live up to the description, whether positive or negative.
8. Stories you tell are generally organized according to Kenneth Burke’s ______.
9. ______means you are more likely to perceive and focus on things that support your
beliefs, values, and attitudes.
10. ______ is the revelation of information that people could not know unless a person
makes it known to them.
11. ______ enables people to influence how they might be seen by other people.
Essay
1. Discuss Baxter and Montgomery’s concept of the openness–closedness dialectic as
it applies to self-disclosure in relationships.
2. Explain the concept of identity as the symbolic self.
3. Explain the difference between self-description and self-disclosure.
4. Define what Erving Goffman meant by the “front region/back region” aspect of social
performance.
5. Explain metacommunication.
6. Give one reason why a layered onion is not an accurate way to think about the
transaction of identities in everyday life.
7. What is altercasting? Explain its relationship to identity.
8. Explain the difference between symbolic self and symbolic interactionism.
9. How are identities and perceptions related?
10. Explain what is meant by the term perception.
11. Explain how people transact multiple identities based on their different relationships.
12. Explain how identities and personal relationships are interconnected in various
ways.
13. Explain selective perception and provide an example.
14. What is selective retention? Give an example of when you have experienced
selective retention.
15. Explain schemata and provide an example.
16. Explain prototype and provide an example.
17. Explain personal constructs and provide an example.
18. Explain the major premises of Communication Privacy Management Theory.
19. Explain boundary turbulence as it relates to Communication Privacy Management
Theory.