What Are "Background Expectancies"? What Role Do They Play in Conversation

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Essay

What are "background expectancies"? What role do they play in conversation and in the processes and structures of everyday life? How might "background expectancies" in interpersonal communication reflect macro societal patterns of race,class,and gender?

Differentiate between origins and pawns in terms of control and motivation.

Analyze the role of competence in effective environmental interaction.

Understand the self-determination theory and its components.

Comprehend the reciprocal causation in behavior, cognition, and environmental factors.

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Definitions:

Subsidiary Company

A company that is controlled by another company, typically referred to as the parent company.

Dividend Income

Earnings received by shareholders from their investment in a corporation's stocks, typically in the form of cash dividends.

Investment in Associates

A long-term investment in another company where the investor holds a significant but not majority stake, typically 20%-50% of the voting stock.

Equity Method

An accounting technique used to record investments in associate companies, where the investment is initially recorded at cost and adjusted thereafter for the post-acquisition change in the investor's share of net assets of the investee.