Human Communication 270 is a course that allowed me to gain more better perspectives on communications and has also expanded my understanding and knowledge of some of the major theories. During the course of the semester, this class introduced me to a variety of common and generally theories studied in the communication field. The different types of theories being taught in class, made me learn how to apply some of the theories to my life in a basically way through some of the class lectures. In the following paper, there will I will be covering 3 main things. I will be starting off my paper by introducing the theory I will be using and give a little background about it, then I will be talking about my own experiences that applies to the theory, and lastly tell what insights did the theory I selected provide me to help me understand my own communication behavior in everyday life. The theory I selected that was covered in class is Social Penetration Theory and it was discovered by two social psychologists, Dalmas Taylor and Irwin Altman. The Social Penetration Theory builds a relationship throughout time between two people. When two people aren't close to each other, they only talk about…show more content… Our relationship got tighter and stronger every time we learned new things about one another. We built more trust and feelings for each other we officially called each other boyfriend/girlfriend. We both shared more of our secrets towards each others, like our most embarrassing baby pictures and other things that only certain people in my life know about. In fact, some of the secrets I told her made me think that it would change the way she thinks or feels about me. But I was surprised that she ended up accepting who I really am and still love me. There are other secrets I haven’t told anyone, but kept it to myself. The information I shared to certain people are my private
