CMN 552 EXAM 3 COMPREHENSIVE TEST
PAPER QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
◉ 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).
Answer: - People try to control their nervous or guilty behaviors to
appear friendly and truthful
- Sender
◉ Motivations for keeping secrets.
Answer: - the desire to protect the relationship
- to protect self or someone else
- to maintain privacy
◉ Negative effects of keeping secrets.
Answer: - negatively affects quality of interactions with the person
- encourages concealment of relational problems
,- putting on an air that everything is fine
◉ Hyperaccessability.
Answer: People often try to suppress secrets which results in
rumination or obsessive thinking about it.
◉ The Rebound Effect.
Answer: Can forget the secret for a while until some stimulus brings
it back to mind
◉ The Fever Model of Self-Disclosure.
Answer: - Pressure builds and the secret gets blurted out
- Most common with cases of infidelity
◉ "Split-Loyalty Pattern".
Answer: Secret keepers are often put in a bind of having to choose
between being loyal to other secret holders and being loyal to
friends or family who may be hurt by not knowing the secret
◉ Positive outcomes of revealing secrets.
Answer: - Reverse negative effects
- Achieve catharsis
, ◉ Negative outcomes of revealing secrets.
Answer: - Can elicit a negative reaction from the listener
- Disconfirming reactions may worsen what is likely an already
diminished sense of self
- Might be viewed as a betrayal by others.
◉ Kelly and McKillop on if a secret should be revealed.
Answer: - Is the secret troubling?
- Is an appropriate confidant avaliable?
- If the answer is no to either question, do not reveal
- If the answer is yes, do reveal
◉ cheating blueprint.
Answer: -THERE AINT ONE
- cheaters have no profile, cheating has no blueprint, and there is no
set definition
- cheating redefines a relationship
◉ friendship dialects (Baxter).
Answer: - dialects are tensions between two or more ocntradictory
elements in a system
- friends do not always agree with which side of the dialect they
prefer at a given time
PAPER QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
◉ 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).
Answer: - People try to control their nervous or guilty behaviors to
appear friendly and truthful
- Sender
◉ Motivations for keeping secrets.
Answer: - the desire to protect the relationship
- to protect self or someone else
- to maintain privacy
◉ Negative effects of keeping secrets.
Answer: - negatively affects quality of interactions with the person
- encourages concealment of relational problems
,- putting on an air that everything is fine
◉ Hyperaccessability.
Answer: People often try to suppress secrets which results in
rumination or obsessive thinking about it.
◉ The Rebound Effect.
Answer: Can forget the secret for a while until some stimulus brings
it back to mind
◉ The Fever Model of Self-Disclosure.
Answer: - Pressure builds and the secret gets blurted out
- Most common with cases of infidelity
◉ "Split-Loyalty Pattern".
Answer: Secret keepers are often put in a bind of having to choose
between being loyal to other secret holders and being loyal to
friends or family who may be hurt by not knowing the secret
◉ Positive outcomes of revealing secrets.
Answer: - Reverse negative effects
- Achieve catharsis
, ◉ Negative outcomes of revealing secrets.
Answer: - Can elicit a negative reaction from the listener
- Disconfirming reactions may worsen what is likely an already
diminished sense of self
- Might be viewed as a betrayal by others.
◉ Kelly and McKillop on if a secret should be revealed.
Answer: - Is the secret troubling?
- Is an appropriate confidant avaliable?
- If the answer is no to either question, do not reveal
- If the answer is yes, do reveal
◉ cheating blueprint.
Answer: -THERE AINT ONE
- cheaters have no profile, cheating has no blueprint, and there is no
set definition
- cheating redefines a relationship
◉ friendship dialects (Baxter).
Answer: - dialects are tensions between two or more ocntradictory
elements in a system
- friends do not always agree with which side of the dialect they
prefer at a given time
