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Chapter 05

Coordinated Management of Meaning

 

 

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is true of Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM)?
   A.It focuses on how individuals establish rules for creating and interpreting meaning.
   B. It focuses on the linear nature of communication and its influences.
   C. It focuses on the effects of conflict in relationships.
   D. All of the answers are correct.

 

 

 

2. Which of the following statements is associated with interpersonal meaning?
   A.”We are acting according to the same rules.”
   B. “We agree with each other’s interpretations.”
   C. “We have experienced this before.”
   D. “We are experiencing conflict because of differing rules.”

 

 

 

3. As we listen to another person in a conversation, we are categorizing the symbols and beginning to make sense of them. In the hierarchy of meaning, which level does this process of converting raw data into meaning refer to?
   A.speech act
   B. content
   C. contract
   D. episode

 

4. Which of the following is true of rules in the context of Coordinated Management of Meaning?
   A.Rules are not necessarily linked to time, place, relationship, and self-concept.
   B. Rules are independent of context, and context is a homogeneous environment.
   C. Rule usage in a conversation is less significant than an ability to use a rule.
   D. Rules provide people opportunities to choose between alternatives.

 

 

 

5. The _____ level of meaning provides guidelines for behavior in a relationship.
   A.episode
   B. mediator
   C. relational
   D. coordination

 

6. U.S. culture, according to Myron Lustig and Jolene Koester, puts a premium on
   A.materialism
   B. collectivism
   C. socialism
   D. individualism

 

 

 

7. Which of the following is NOT an assumption governing Coordinated Management of Meaning?
   A.Human beings live in communication.
   B. Human beings co-create a social reality.
   C. Information transactions depend on personal and interpersonal meaning.
   D. Group interpretation is more influential than interpersonal meaning.

 

 

 

8. Punctuate is to episode as _____ is to relationship.
   A.raw data
   B. content level
   C. enmeshment
   D. None of the answers is correct.

 

 

 

9. Pat and Chris frequently experience conflicts about how to spend their weekends. When Pat suggests something that Chris believes to be a waste of time and money, he feels as though he has no choice but to protest against it. These conflicts are an example of
   A.a sustained speech act
   B. a co-created script
   C. an unwanted repetitive pattern
   D. individualism

 

 

 

10. Coordinated Management of Meaning is associated with the work of
    A.George Herbert Mead
    B. Gulifor and Bryant
    C. Pearce and Cronen
    D. Longo and Frank

 

 

 

11. Over the years, Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM) has been investigated using multiple approaches to knowing. Earlier research with CMM primarily used _____ approaches.
    A.interpretive
    B. critical
    C. practical
    D. empirical

 

 

 

12. For Coordinated Management of Meaning theorists, the stories, symbols, and images that people use to make sense of their world are defined as
    A.rules
    B. resources
    C. foundation for behaviors
    D. raw data

 

 

 

13. _____ are at the top of the hierarchy of organized meaning and help us to interpret lower-level meanings.
    A.Cultural patterns
    B. Life scripts
    C. Speech acts
    D. Episodes

 

 

 

14. Coordinated Management of Meaning has been criticized for
    A.being too abstract
    B. not being useful
    C. being too simple
    D. None of the answers is correct.

 

 

 

15. Coordinated Management of Meaning is primarily related to the _____ communication contexts.
    A.small group and interpersonal
    B. critical and intrapersonal
    C. intrapersonal and interpersonal
    D. public and rhetorical

 

 

 

16. All of the following are communication traditions to which Coordinated Management of Meaning is related EXCEPT
    A.socio-cultural communication tradition
    B. phenomenological communication tradition
    C. cybernetic communication tradition
    D. socio-psychological tradition

 

 

 

17. Charmed loops occur when
    A.one part of the hierarchy supports another level
    B. the rules of meaning change within the loop
    C. two people get along and understand each other
    D. there is similarity in two people’s rules

 

 

 

18. To describe life experiences, Pearce and Cronen (1980) use the metaphor _____.
19. “social worlds”
20. “substance of human community”
21. “undirected theater”
22. “performative platform”

 

 

 

19. _____ refers to a person’s beliefs about how meaning and action fit within an interpersonal interaction.
20. Enmeshment
21. Social reality
22. Personal meaning
23. Speculation

 

 

 

20. _____ is the notion that the interests of a group are put before the interests of an individual.
21. Collectivism
22. Speculation
23. Coordination
24. Parsimony

 

 

 

True/False Questions

21. According to Coordinated Management of Meaning, rules help us not only in our communication with others but also in our interpretation of what others are communicating to us.

TRUE

 

 

 

22. When two people agree on each other’s interpretations, they are said to achieve interpersonal meaning.

TRUE

 

 

 

23. Coordination is influenced by gender and age.

FALSE

 

 

 

24. An example of a regulative rule is when one person tells another person that “honesty is the best policy.”

FALSE

 

 

 

25. Life scripts are determined for us when we are born.

FALSE

 

 

 

26. Regulative rules are guidelines for an individual’s behavior.

TRUE

 

 

 

27. Social constructivists believe that people co-construct their social reality in conversations.

TRUE

 

 

 

28. Charmed loops often result in a vicious cycle.

FALSE

 

 

 

29. Relationships are like contracts, which set guidelines and often prescribe behavior.

TRUE

 

30. Life scripts can be thought of as autobiographies that communicate with one’s sense of self.

 

TRUE

 

 

Essay Questions

31. Provide an example of a speech act, a contract, and a life script.

 

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32. Compare and contrast personal meaning and interpersonal meaning.

 

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33. Define constitutive rules and regulative rules, and explain how they influence the coordination of meaning.

 

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34. Do you agree that “humans co-create a social reality”? Why or why not?

 

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35. Using the standard criteria for evaluating communication theory, evaluate Coordinated Management of Meaning.

 

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36. Compare and contrast Coordinated Management of Meaning and Symbolic Interactionism. Is there a relationship between these two theories? Do they stand in opposition to each other, or do they peacefully coexist?

 

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37. Define and explain what unwanted repetitive patterns are, and discuss the various reasons why two relational partners may continue to engage in them.

 

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38. Develop a study one could use to test Coordinated Management of Meaning. What questions would you attempt to answer? What methods would you use? Why?

 

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39. List and define the components of the hierarchy of meaning in the correct order, and explain how they are related to each other.

 

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