a)What three factors / conditions increase our drive to reduce uncertainty?

Why?

Incentives/ passive strategy: If a person were to observe another in their natural

environment, intentionally unnoticeable, to gain information on another would be
categorized as using a passive tactic for reducing uncertainties. For example, watching
someone in class, cafeteria, or any common area without attracting attention.

Deviation/active strategy: an active strategist would result to means of reducing

uncertainties without any personal direct contact. For example, if one were to ask a
friend about a particular person, or ask the particular person's friend for some
information without actually confronting the person directly.

Anticipation of future interaction strategy: an interactive strategist would directly

confront the individual and engage in some form of dialog to reduce the uncertainties
between the two.

b) Describe two kinds of uncertainty experience when we meet strangers. Put

those in the context of a recent example from your life.

Cognitive Uncertainty and Behavioral Uncertainty

Cognitive uncertainty is the uncertainty in knowing what another person has thought
or is thinking, or uncertainty about our own thoughts.

Behavioral uncertainty is the uncertainty associated with being able to predict or

explain a person’s behavior, or in knowing what behaviors are expected of us or
predicting our own actions

Last Monday at the hair salon, there was an young man and I sat right next to him, I
was curious because we didn't know each other, and I had never seen him before, but
from his physiognomy, he seemed to be bodybuilder, but those were just my poor
intuition without certainty, although I had a little conclusion about what kind of man he
was using cognitive uncertainty. Thereafter, someone phoned him, and the way he used
to answer the calling was more informal as well, fully slangs, physical movements like
he was debating, I got sort staggered then I removed myself to other chair. I concluded
that he was an aggressive person.
C) I don't accept all of Berger’s axioms, as absolutely true.