Evaluate SPT's four stages of relationship development.  How accurately do they reflect your experience?  If it is accurate, provide an illustration of a relationship that moved through these stages.  If it is not accurate, what is missing from the theory?  How might adding a missing piece improve the theory?; 2) Provide an example of self-disclosure gone wrong.  You might share your own misstep with self-disclosure or think about a time when someone disclosed something to you and it just didn't work.  Why did this self-disclosure fail?

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Social Penetration Theory SPT posits that relationships develop through four stages orientation exploratory affective exchange affective exchange and stable exchange This theory suggests that as relat... View the full answer