Communications final exam

COMM 2010: Final Study Guide

Exam 3 is worth 200 points. There will be 50 questions. Your exam will cover information from chapters 9-12 as well as a few questions from chapters 1-8. The questions include a combination of recall/recognition, application, and analysis/synthesis questions over the terms, concepts, theories, models, and perspectives listed below. You should be able to recognize/explain/apply the essential elements of all of the following theories/perspectives.

Social Penetration Theory

Social Exchange Theory

Uncertainty Reduction Theory (three stages, motivations to move beyond initial stages, etc.)

Strategies to reduce uncertainty

Relationship Interaction Stages Model

Relationship between similarity and attraction

Theory of Interpersonal Communication Motives

Motivations for small group communication

Types of groups (emergent, task-oriented, etc.)

Graph with four quadrants

Group culture

Group norms

Formal/informal roles

Task/maintenance/self-centered roles

Cohesiveness

Groupthink

Symptoms of groupthink

Types of leadership

Human Relations Management

System 4 Management Theory (4 types of management)

Theory X vs. Theory Y vs. Theory Z

Managerial Grid Theory (5 types of management and effects thereof)

Organizational Socialization (three stages)

Magic Bullet Theory

Functions of mass communication (surveillance, correlation, etc.)

Agenda-Setting Theory

Theory of Parasocial Interaction

Uses and Gratifications Theory

Cultivation Theory

Media Dependency Theory

Social Information Processing Theory

Characteristics of family communication (nonvolition, etc.)

Communication Privacy Management Theory

Functions of health communication (diagnosis, etc.)

Locus of control

Uncertainty Management Theory

Face Negotiation Theory (face, face loss, face gain, facework, face threats)

Individualism and collectivism

Agenda setting in political communication (affect hypothesis, credibility hypothesis, counterarguing hypothesis)