Authors and Theories Flashcards
(30 cards)
Who is responsible for the Hierarchy of Needs?
Abraham Maslow
Who is responsible for the Cultivation Theory?
George Gerbner
Who is responsible for Social Penetration?
Irwin Altman
Who is responsible for Groupthink?
Irving L. Janis
Who is responsible for Instrumental and Terminal Values?
Milton Rokeach
Who is responsible for Socal Darwinism?
Herbert Spencer
Thomas Malthus
Who is responsible for Attribution theory?
Founded by: Fritz Heider
Advanced by: Harold Kelly and Bernard Weiner
Who is responsible for Transactional Analysis: Parent Adult Child roles?
Eric Berne
Who is responsible for Relational Stages?
Knapp
Who is responsible for Socal Exchange?
George Homans
Who is responsible for Cognitive Dissonance?
Leon Festinger
Who is responsible for the Theory of Needs (FIRO)?
William Shutz
Who is responsible for Uncertainty Reduction?
Charles Berger
Richard Calabrese
Who is responsible for Dramatism?
Kenneth Burke
Who is responsible for Standpoint theory?
Sandra Harding and Julia T. Wood
What is the Cultivation theory?
exposure to media, over time, subtly “cultivates” viewers’ perceptions of reality.
What is Social Penetration?
as relationships develop, interpersonal communication moves from relatively shallow, non-intimate levels to deeper, more intimate ones
What is Groupthink?
when individual thinking or individual creativity is lost or subverted to stay within the comfort zone
What are Instrumental Values?
Instrumental Values are not the end goal, but rather provides the means by which an end goal is accomplished.
EX: Being polite
What are Terminal Values?
The end goals we want to achieve in our lifetime
EX: Inner peace, happiness
What is Social Darwinism?
the idea that certain people become powerful in society because they are innately better.
“Survival of the fittest”
What is the Attribution Theory?
deals with how the social perceiver uses the information to arrive at causal explanations for events. It examines what information is gathered and how it is combined to form a causal judgment
What is Transactional Analysis?
The study of interactions between people
- Parent -Adult -Child
EX: Sweet Petes- Pete comes in to help with making caramel. Sam doesn’t want to learn….-Child
What are Relational Stages?
Interaction in which relationships come together and apart
(initiating, experimenting, intensifying, integrating, and bonding)
(differentiating, circumscribing, stagnating, avoiding, and terminating).
