Unlike a speech, which has a specific purpose and thesis statement, question-and-answer sessions can cover a wide range of ideas and perspectives, some of them only remotely related to the topic at hand

According to communication privacy management theory (CPM), which of the following statements is true about the five factors that play into the way people develop their own privacy rules?

A) Cultures differ on the value of openness and disclosure. B) Both men and women feel more hesitant to reveal private information to a woman than to a man. C) Abused children find it difficult to have an abnormal conversation when their confidants are engaged in mundane activities D) Attraction and liking as interpersonal motives fail to loosen privacy boundaries.

When main ideas can stand alone, because the truth of each does not depend on the others, they are

A) incoherent. B) independent. C) parallel. D) dependent. E) indiscrete.