CMN 552 EXAM 3 ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ Different types of relationship and conflict topics.
Answer: - Parent-child: control issues
- siblings: competition over shared resources
- roommates: privacy, chores
- friends: less expressed conflict than in other relationship types
- romantic: criticism, finances, household chores, communication
◉ Which type of relationship does the most conflict occur?.
Answer: - romantic relationships
◉ 3 key areas of privacy management.
Answer: - information
- possessions/property
- space
◉ Communication Privact Management Theory (Sandra Petronio).
Answer: 1: People believe they own and have a right to control their
private information and their physical spaces.
,2. People control their privacy by setting up boundaries. This often
involves setting rules.
3. When others are told or are given access to a person's private
information, they become co-owners of that information.
4. Co-owners of private information need to negotiate mutually
agreeable privacy rules
about telling others.
5. When co-owners of private information don't effectively negotiate
and follow mutuallheld privacy rules, boundary turbulence is the
likely result.
◉ Deception.
Answer: - Deception is defined as an intentional act in which senders
knowingly transmit messages to foster a false belief or
interpretation in the receiver.
- Deception is viewed as a major relational transgression that often
leads to feelings of betrayal and distrust.
- The most lying occurs in romantic relationships and those lies tend
to be serious ones.
◉ Negative effects of
deception on relationships.
Answer: - less relational satisfaction and commitment
- erodes trust in others
,- emotional hurt
- may never fully recover trust in relationships
◉ Partner-focused motive for deception.
Answer: - Used to avoid hurting the partner, helping the partner
maintain his or her self-esteem, avoid worrying the partner, and
protecting the partner's relationship with a third party
- Often viewed as socially polite and relationally beneficial
◉ Self-focused motive for deception.
Answer: - Used to enhance or protect their self-image, or wanting to
shield themselves from anger, embarrassment, criticism, or other
types of harm
- Often viewed as a much more serious transgression because of the
selfish motivation
◉ Relationship-focused motive for deception.
Answer: - Used to limit relational harm by avoiding conflict,
relational trauma, or other unpleasant experiences
Can be viewed as beneficial and destructive
◉ Detecting deception.
Answer: - no completely reliable indicators of deception
, - accompanied by speech hesitations and body shifts (also indicates
general anxiety or discomfort)
- compare a person's normal truthful behavior with their current
behavior
◉ Truth bias (Variables that influence detection).
Answer: - People expect others to be honest, so they enter
conversations without suspicion and do not look for deceptive
behavior
- Truth biases are especially strong within close relationships and
with people who we like
- Receiver
◉ Behavioral familiarity (Variables that influence detection).
Answer: - Those in close relationships have knowledge of the
partner's typical communication style
- Receiver
◉ Informational familiarity (Variables that influence detection).
Answer: - You know certain information about your relational
partner, so your partner can't lie to you about that information.
- Reciever
◉ Behavioral control (Variables that influence detection).
CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ Different types of relationship and conflict topics.
Answer: - Parent-child: control issues
- siblings: competition over shared resources
- roommates: privacy, chores
- friends: less expressed conflict than in other relationship types
- romantic: criticism, finances, household chores, communication
◉ Which type of relationship does the most conflict occur?.
Answer: - romantic relationships
◉ 3 key areas of privacy management.
Answer: - information
- possessions/property
- space
◉ Communication Privact Management Theory (Sandra Petronio).
Answer: 1: People believe they own and have a right to control their
private information and their physical spaces.
,2. People control their privacy by setting up boundaries. This often
involves setting rules.
3. When others are told or are given access to a person's private
information, they become co-owners of that information.
4. Co-owners of private information need to negotiate mutually
agreeable privacy rules
about telling others.
5. When co-owners of private information don't effectively negotiate
and follow mutuallheld privacy rules, boundary turbulence is the
likely result.
◉ Deception.
Answer: - Deception is defined as an intentional act in which senders
knowingly transmit messages to foster a false belief or
interpretation in the receiver.
- Deception is viewed as a major relational transgression that often
leads to feelings of betrayal and distrust.
- The most lying occurs in romantic relationships and those lies tend
to be serious ones.
◉ Negative effects of
deception on relationships.
Answer: - less relational satisfaction and commitment
- erodes trust in others
,- emotional hurt
- may never fully recover trust in relationships
◉ Partner-focused motive for deception.
Answer: - Used to avoid hurting the partner, helping the partner
maintain his or her self-esteem, avoid worrying the partner, and
protecting the partner's relationship with a third party
- Often viewed as socially polite and relationally beneficial
◉ Self-focused motive for deception.
Answer: - Used to enhance or protect their self-image, or wanting to
shield themselves from anger, embarrassment, criticism, or other
types of harm
- Often viewed as a much more serious transgression because of the
selfish motivation
◉ Relationship-focused motive for deception.
Answer: - Used to limit relational harm by avoiding conflict,
relational trauma, or other unpleasant experiences
Can be viewed as beneficial and destructive
◉ Detecting deception.
Answer: - no completely reliable indicators of deception
, - accompanied by speech hesitations and body shifts (also indicates
general anxiety or discomfort)
- compare a person's normal truthful behavior with their current
behavior
◉ Truth bias (Variables that influence detection).
Answer: - People expect others to be honest, so they enter
conversations without suspicion and do not look for deceptive
behavior
- Truth biases are especially strong within close relationships and
with people who we like
- Receiver
◉ Behavioral familiarity (Variables that influence detection).
Answer: - Those in close relationships have knowledge of the
partner's typical communication style
- Receiver
◉ Informational familiarity (Variables that influence detection).
Answer: - You know certain information about your relational
partner, so your partner can't lie to you about that information.
- Reciever
◉ Behavioral control (Variables that influence detection).
