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UCSB Comm 89 Midterm Questions and Answers
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UCSB Comm 89 Midterm Questions andAnswers
Indirect Stereotyping Correct Ans-Imposing outdated and rigid assumptions of a cultural
group upon that group
Overaccommodation Correct Ans-Attempt to overdo efforts in regulating, modifying, or
responding to others
Sensory overaccomodation Correct Ans-Overly adapting to others who are perceived as
limited in their abilities (physical, linguistic, or other)
Dependency overaccomodation Correct Ans--A behavior that occurs when speakers place
listeners in a lower-status role
-Listener believes that the speaker controls the conversation to demonstrate higher status
Intergroup overaccomodation Correct Ans-A behavior that occurs when speakers place
listeners in cultural groups without acknowledging individual uniqueness
-At the heart of this is stereotyping
CAT tradition, context, approach, criteria Correct Ans--Tradition: socio-psychological
-Context: Cultural
-Approach: Positivistic/Empirical
,-Criteria:
Does well: Scope, logical consistency, heurism
Communicative goals MDL Correct Ans--Primary goal: What want to achieve
-Secondary goal: How do you want to be seen. How want to go about achieving it
-These goals sometimes conflict. Sometimes want to achieve something but worried how you
will look about it
Expressive Design Logic Correct Ans--Premise:Language is a medium for expressing thoughts
and feelings
-Central Dimensions: Clarity of expression openness and honestly unimpeded signaling
-Communication is successful to the extent that it is unclear
-Key message: Self-expression. The belief is that you should "Express what you think"
Conventional Design Logic Correct Ans--Premise: Communication is a game played
cooperatively by social rules
-Central Dimensions: Appropriateness control of resources cooperativeness
-Key message: Secure desired response
-Socially conventional rules and procedures are critical
-Communication is intended to achieve goals
,Rhetorical Design Logic Correct Ans--Premise: Communication creates/negotiates selves and
situations
-Central Dimensions: Flexibility symbolic sophistication depth of interpretation
Key message: Negotiate social consensus
-Emphasis on interpersonal harmony and consensus
-Tailor communication carefully to address complex needs
Ex: politicians, change way thinking, switches communication topic
Ex: Changing the reality of the situation
MDL Tradition and Approach Correct Ans-Tradition: Rhetorical, and socio-psychological
Approach: Empirical/Positivistic and Interpretive
Communicator's Implicit Definitions of Communication (MDL) Correct Ans--Individuals might
have systematically different definitions of communication
-and that such differences might hi reflected in fundamentally different ways of constructing
and interpreting messages.
The role of situational complexity (MDL) Correct Ans--refers to the number of competing
situational goals and
obstacles to goal achievement
-As the number of relevant situational goals (and particularly as the number of competing goals)
increases, variation in goals adopted by individuals is encouraged. Individuals may choose to
pursue all or none of the goals that are intrinsically relevant to a situation
, Misunderstanding created by MDLs Correct Ans--No one MDL is best
-Chart online
TRL Assumptions Correct Ans--People want to feel validated and secure
-Stress is natural and necessary and can be good or bad, and that people respond
physiologically when they are stressed
-Relationships have their own homeostasis that is continually being calibrated in response to
stress and the communication of stress.
Relational Maintenance Correct Ans--behaviors that couples perform that help maintain
their relationships
-It is prosocial, daily verbal and nonverbal behaviors, perceptions, and actions that allow
relational partners and family members to become resilient and thrive.
Emotional Reserves Correct Ans--Assumes when partners and family members on an
ongoing basis, accumulate emotional reserves or emotional capital, which helps them safeguard
their relationship
-Build through repeated communicative maintenance strategies
-When ppl have positive emotional reserves they then likely appraise relationally stressful
situation from a broader mindset
Communal Orientation Correct Ans--as the ability to think of one's
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