UCSB Comm 89 Midterm (Actual 2025/2026) Questions and
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Private information control - ---Answers----The idea that I
"own" the private information about me, I can choose how I
want to control that information
Private information co-ownership and guardianship - ---
Answers----How private information is shared and becomes
co-owned
Private information boundary turbulence - ---Answers----
Refers to what happens when the privacy rules break or
people make mistakes in enacting them
Collective Boundary - ---Answers----A boundary around
private information that includes more than one person
Personal Boundary - ---Answers----A boundary around
private information that includes just one person
Boundary coordination - ---Answers----One of the processes
in the privacy rule management system; describes how we
manage private information that is co-owned
,Boundary linkage - ---Answers----The connections forming
boundary alliances between people
Boundary ownership - ---Answers----Rights and privileges
accruing to co-owners of private information
Boundary permeability - ---Answers----The extent to which
information is able to pass through a boundary
Thick boundaries - ---Answers----closed boundaries allowing
little or no information to pass through
Thin boundaries - ---Answers----open boundaries allowing
all information to pass through
Boundary Turbulence - ---Answers----conflicts about
boundary expectations and regulation
Privacy Dilemmas - ---Answers-----Accidental
-Illicit
-Confidant
Accidental Dilemma - ---Answers----Inadvertently
discovering private information
EX: over hearing convo, accidentally opening mail not yours
Ownership thrust upon you
,Illicit Dilemma - ---Answers----When you discover info by
"spying"
You purposely check private info that is not yours
You intentionally throw yourself into ownership
Confidant Dilemma - ---Answers----When someone
unexpectedly discloses info
May be in best interest to violate that info
CPM Tradition, Context, Approach, Criteria - ---Answers-----
Tradition: Socio-cultural, socio-psychological
-Context: Interpersonal
-Approach: Positivistic/Empirical and
Interpretive/Hermeneutic
-Criteria:
Does well: Logical consistency, Utility, and Heurism
CAT Assumptions - ---Answers-----Speech and behavioral
similarities and dissimilarities exist in all conversations
-The manner in which we perceive the speech and behaviors
of another will determine how we evaluate a conversation
-Lang and behaviors impart information about social status
and group belonging
-Accommodation varies in its degree of appropriateness, and
norms guide the accommodation process
, CAT's roots in Social Identity theory - ---Answers-----A
theory that proposes a person's identity is shaped by both
personal and social characteristics
In-groups - ---Answers----Groups in which a person feels he
or she belongs
Out-groups - ---Answers----Groups in which a person feels
he or she does not belong
Convergence - ---Answers----Strategy used to adapt to
another's behavior
-ppl may adapt to speech rate, pause, smiling, eye gaze and
other verbal and non-verbal behaviors
-It is a selective process
Divergence - ---Answers----Strategy used to accentuate the
verbal and nonverbal differences between communicators
-When there is no attempt to demonstrate similarities
between speakers
Indirect Stereotyping - ---Answers----Imposing outdated and
rigid assumptions of a cultural group upon that group
Overaccommodation - ---Answers----Attempt to overdo
efforts in regulating, modifying, or responding to others
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Private information control - ---Answers----The idea that I
"own" the private information about me, I can choose how I
want to control that information
Private information co-ownership and guardianship - ---
Answers----How private information is shared and becomes
co-owned
Private information boundary turbulence - ---Answers----
Refers to what happens when the privacy rules break or
people make mistakes in enacting them
Collective Boundary - ---Answers----A boundary around
private information that includes more than one person
Personal Boundary - ---Answers----A boundary around
private information that includes just one person
Boundary coordination - ---Answers----One of the processes
in the privacy rule management system; describes how we
manage private information that is co-owned
,Boundary linkage - ---Answers----The connections forming
boundary alliances between people
Boundary ownership - ---Answers----Rights and privileges
accruing to co-owners of private information
Boundary permeability - ---Answers----The extent to which
information is able to pass through a boundary
Thick boundaries - ---Answers----closed boundaries allowing
little or no information to pass through
Thin boundaries - ---Answers----open boundaries allowing
all information to pass through
Boundary Turbulence - ---Answers----conflicts about
boundary expectations and regulation
Privacy Dilemmas - ---Answers-----Accidental
-Illicit
-Confidant
Accidental Dilemma - ---Answers----Inadvertently
discovering private information
EX: over hearing convo, accidentally opening mail not yours
Ownership thrust upon you
,Illicit Dilemma - ---Answers----When you discover info by
"spying"
You purposely check private info that is not yours
You intentionally throw yourself into ownership
Confidant Dilemma - ---Answers----When someone
unexpectedly discloses info
May be in best interest to violate that info
CPM Tradition, Context, Approach, Criteria - ---Answers-----
Tradition: Socio-cultural, socio-psychological
-Context: Interpersonal
-Approach: Positivistic/Empirical and
Interpretive/Hermeneutic
-Criteria:
Does well: Logical consistency, Utility, and Heurism
CAT Assumptions - ---Answers-----Speech and behavioral
similarities and dissimilarities exist in all conversations
-The manner in which we perceive the speech and behaviors
of another will determine how we evaluate a conversation
-Lang and behaviors impart information about social status
and group belonging
-Accommodation varies in its degree of appropriateness, and
norms guide the accommodation process
, CAT's roots in Social Identity theory - ---Answers-----A
theory that proposes a person's identity is shaped by both
personal and social characteristics
In-groups - ---Answers----Groups in which a person feels he
or she belongs
Out-groups - ---Answers----Groups in which a person feels
he or she does not belong
Convergence - ---Answers----Strategy used to adapt to
another's behavior
-ppl may adapt to speech rate, pause, smiling, eye gaze and
other verbal and non-verbal behaviors
-It is a selective process
Divergence - ---Answers----Strategy used to accentuate the
verbal and nonverbal differences between communicators
-When there is no attempt to demonstrate similarities
between speakers
Indirect Stereotyping - ---Answers----Imposing outdated and
rigid assumptions of a cultural group upon that group
Overaccommodation - ---Answers----Attempt to overdo
efforts in regulating, modifying, or responding to others
