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What is the focus of GPA? |
Message production, Influence messages |
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What are the theory stats for GPA? |
Post-positivist/Interpretive. It is also individually centered in that the individual guides goals and plans. |
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What are the theory principles for GPA? |
Goals for interaction, Plans (mental prep for what will be said), and action (what is said and how it it is managed, or the outcome.) |
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Describe the "Goals" Aspect of this theory. |
Primary and Secondary Goals |
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What is a primary goal? |
It initiates the process/conversation. An example would include changing the status of a relationship, or having a productive sex talk with a young teenager. |
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What is a secondary goal? |
It is more specific than a primary goal. For example, a secondary goal would be having a productive sex talk with a teenager that discusses safe sex practices in depth. |
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What can primary and secondary goals be? |
Compatible, Incompatible, And Irrelevant. |
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what does it mean when primary/secondary goals are compatible? |
it means that they complement each other. |
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what does it mean when primary/secondary goals are incompatible |
it means they do not work with each other. |
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what does it mean when primary/secondary goals are irrelevant? |
it means that they don't have anything to do with each other and for that reason, do not work. |
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What are plans? |
Strategies you will use to employ the message. |
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what kinds of influences exist within the plans aspect? |
Strategy and Tactic |
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what is strategy? |
the sequence of the message |
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what is tactic |
the utterance of a message. |
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what is the action aspect? |
how the message ends up coming out? |
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what are the different ways a message can be enacted? |
Explicit, Dominant, Argumentative, Control |
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What is explicit action |
overt-direct. Examples: "we're over!" versus "we haven't been getting along lately" |
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what is dominant action |
power source Examples: "you are never there for me" versus "I don't feel like you are there for me" |
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what is argumentative action |
Provided reasons Examples: "You are closed off" versus "when we are at our parents, you just shut off." |
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what is control action |
threat versus reward Example: "We'll be better off without each other" versus "we are killing ourselves slowly with this relationship" |
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What are some common applications for GPA theory? |
Romantic Contexts, Work Contexts, Educational Contexts, basically any context that would, at some point, require an influence message. It can also be used to examine the exact sequence of an interpersonal script. |
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What are some strengths to GPA? |
Parsimony/testable, Multiple contexts |
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what are some weaknesses to GPA? |
too broad, used to attain sequence. |
