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____ are the behaviors that monitor, control, coordinate, or maintain the speaking of another individual. A. Gestures B. Adapters C. Regulators D. Illustrators |
C. Regulators |
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____ is the creation of closeness, a sense of togetherness, and oneness between speaker and listener. A. Immediacy B. Maxim C. Feedforward D. Metacommunication |
A. Immediacy |
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According to the textbook, there are ____ maxims of politeness. A. 5 B. 6 C. 4 D. 3 |
B. 6 |
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You can use turn-denying cues to indicate your reluctance to assume the role of speaker. True or False |
True |
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In a ____, one person speaks, the other person only listens. Monologue Dialogue |
Monologue |
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Which one to avoid during small talk? A. Sports B. Fashion C. Religion D. News
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C. Religion |
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Meta-advice is advice about ____. A. Advice B. Intra-communication C. Relationships D. Complimenting |
A. Advice |
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Conversation is the essence of interpersonal communication. True or False |
True |
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Choose your topics carefully and answer questions with sufficient elaboration are 2 guidelines for effective small talk. True or False |
True |
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_____ is the 2nd step of the communication process. It gives the other person a general idea of the conversation's purpose. A. Business B. Feedforward C. Opening D. Business |
B. Feedforward |
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____ cues are used to communicate various types of information back to the speaker without assuming the speaker's role. A. Turning B. Backchanneling C. Interruption D. Approbation |
B. Backchanneling |
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During the _____ stage, you observe the person's image, you hear how the person sounds, and you smell the person's scent. A. Contact B. Involvement C. Intimacy |
A. Contact |
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According to the book, there are __ types of relationship violence. A. 3 B. 4 C. 5 D. 6 |
A. 3 |
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______ jealousy involves suspicious thinking, worrying, and/or imagining the different scenarios in which your mate may be interested in someone else. A. Cognitive B. Emotional C. Behavioral D. Intimate |
A. Cognitive |
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The greater the equity and the greater the satisfaction, the greater the likelihood the relationship will end. True or False |
False |
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The quality that makes a relationship interpersonal is ____. Interdependency Intradependency |
Interdependency |
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Movement from a relationship stage to another depends largely on communication skills. True or False |
True |
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If you construct your mate, according to the _____ principle, it's likely that your mate would look, act, and think like you. A. Similarity B. Romantic C. Rules D. Friendship |
A. Similarity |
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The ______ of a relationship has to do with the number of topics you and your partner discuss. A. Depth B. Density C. Breadth D. Wholeness |
C. Breadth |
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And the ____ of the relationship involves the degree to which we penetrate the inner-personality, the core of the other person. A. Depth B. Density C. Breadth D. Wholeness |
A. Depth |
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______ smiles are beyond voluntary control and signal genuine joy. A. Congruent B. Cox C. Duchenne D. Pierre E. Norwegian |
C. Duchenne |
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____ noise happens when the speaker and listener have different meaning systems due to language, dialectical differences, and word choice. A. Psychological B. Semantic C. Physiological D. Physical |
B. Semantic |
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Paralanguage involves the vocal, but nonverbal dimensions of speech. True or False |
True |
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____ communication does not take place in real-time. A. Feedback B. Asynchronous C. Synchronous D. Interviewing |
B. Asynchronous |
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Theoretically, the message becomes ______ as the number of receivers increase. Simpler or Complex |
Simpler |
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Communication is not transactional. True or False |
False |
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Which pair of countries is describes as having feminine cultures? A. Mexico/Venezuela B. Denmark/Finland C. U.S./Jamaica D. Japan/Austria |
B. Denmark/Finland |
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Listening is a __-part process. A. 6 B. 2 C. 3 D. 5 |
D. 5 |
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______ is the state of awareness in which you are conscious of your reasons for thinking and behaving. A. Critical B. Mindfulness C. Ethics D. Culture |
B. Mindfulness |
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A collectivist culture teaches members the importance of individual values such as power, achievement, hedonism, and stimulation. True or False |
False |
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Which is the most true form of nonverbal communication? A. sight B. touch C. paralanguage D. gestures |
C. Paralanguage |
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Communication is inevitable and ambiguous. True or False |
True |
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The textbook's author says that there are ____ contexts. A. 6 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4 |
D. 4 |
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Within every cultural group, there are no vast and important differences. True or False |
False |
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A(n) _____ is a fixed impression of a group of people. A. Stereotype B. Attribution C. Ethnocentric D. Indulgence |
A. Stereotype |
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The system of rules that tells you which characteristics go with other characteristics is your coping mechanism. True or False |
False |
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_____ concerns the use of time --how you organize it, react to it, and communicate messages with it. A. Haptics B. Kinesics C. Pitch D. Chronemics |
D. Chronemics |
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Culture is transmitted from one generation to another through _____, which is the process in which people learn the culture into which they are born. A. Enculturation B. Assimilation C. Gender D. Exclusionism |
A. Enculturation |
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____ ____ is a type of communication in which you reveal info about yourself that you normally keep hidden. A. Self-disclosure B. Self-affirmation C. Self-esteem D. None |
A. Self-disclosure |
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Dialects are variations in language mainly in grammar and semantics. True or False |
True |
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Only "sound" serves as interference/noise between the sender and receiver. True or False |
False |
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According to the text, _____ people have an advantage in just about every activity you can name. A. Ugly B. Attractive C. Smart D. Aggressive |
B. Attractive |
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Perception is a passive process. True or False |
False |
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The study of touch communication is considered ____. A. Haptics B. Kinesics C. Pitch D. Chronemics |
A. Haptics |
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Media literacy can be defined as the ability to understand, analyze, and evaluate media messages, to interact with the media, and to use the available resources to create your messages. True or False |
True |
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Mental templates or structures that help you organize the millions of items of information you decode everyday are called: A. Schematas B. Evaluations C. Attentions D. Perception |
A. Schematas |
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In some cultures, power is concentrated in the hands of a few. There's great difference in the power held by these people compared to the power of an ordinary citizen. What's this culture considered? High-power distance Low-power distance |
High-power distance |
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In the ___-context culture, most of the information is explicitly stated in the verbal message. Low High |
high |
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Type of miscommunication that occurs when the participants' meanings are not the same. A. Indexing B. Bypassing C. Static D. Disconfirmation |
B. Bypassing |
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Self-esteem is a measure of how valuable you think you are. True or False
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True |
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If you know a person has negative qualities, you may infer that the person has other negative qualities. This is called ____ effect. A. Halo B. Theory C. After D. Implicit |
A. Halo |
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_____ messages are usually less polite. Direct Indirect |
Direct |
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Perception-checking increases your chances of misinterpreting another's feelings. It does not give the other person an opportunity to elaborate. True or False |
False |
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To understand the speaker's feelings, listen with ______. A. Empathy B. Offense C. Assimilation D. Critical |
A. Empathy
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Barriers with listening are always mental. True or False |
False |
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Overattribution is the tendency to choose 1 or 2 characteristics of a person and attribute everything a person does to this attribute, which distorts perception. True of False |
True |
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_____ listening is the process by which you become aware of objects, events, and especially people through your 5 senses. A. Effect B. Perception C. Script D. Disclosure |
B. Perception |
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When evaluating, the listener should distinguish facts from inferences. True or False |
True |
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Unlike listening, hearing begins and ends with ____. A. Receiving B. Remembering C. Understanding D. Responding E. Evaluating |
A. Receiving |
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Listening is the process of receiving, understanding, remembering, evaluating, and responding to verbal and/or nonverbal messages. True or False |
True |
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______ is the tendency to look at the world in terms of opposites and to describe that world in extremes. A. Static B. Allness C. Bypassing D. Polarization |
D. Polarization |
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If you say a stranger harbors prejudice, you made a(n) _______ statement. Inferential Differential |
Inferential |
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Heterosexism does not exist on an institutional, nor an individual level. True or False |
False |
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A communication pattern in which we ignore someone's presence as well as that person's messages. A. Rejection B. Disconfirmation C. Extentionalism D. Indexing |
B. Disconfirmation |
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Racist language contributes to the development of racist attitudes in those who use or hear the language. True or False |
True |
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The meaning of a word you can find in a dictionary. Denotation Connotation |
Denotation |
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_____ distances ranges from 18 inches to 4 feet. A. Intimate B. Personal C. Social D. Public |
B. Personal |
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The influences that determine the speaker's credibility vary from one culture to another. True or False |
True |
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Prisoners often communicate with a truth bias. True or False |
False |
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Generally, friendships are closer in ____ cultures. A. Collectivist B. Individualist |
A. Collectivist |
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Someone seeking ____ love is practical and seeks a relationship that will work. A. Mania B. Pragma C. Agape |
B. Pragma |
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Dyadic consciousness happens in the _____ stage of friendship. There's a clear sense of togetherness where communication demonstrates a sense of immediacy. A. 1st B. 2nd C. 3rd D. 4th |
B. 2nd |
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Someone who introduces new ideas to you, satisfies your need for ______. A. Ego B. Security C. Affirmation D. Stimulation |
D. Stimulation |
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Friendships do not have to be mutually productive. True or False |
False |
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As relationships develop using the Internet, network convergence occurs. True or False |
True |
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In the _____ split relationship, one person dominates and is seen as an expert in more than half of the areas of mutual communication. A. Balanced B. Unbalanced C. Monopoly D. Equality |
B. Unbalanced |
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______ is a compassionate, egoless, self-giving love. A. Agape B. Storge C. Pragma D. Ludus |
A. Agape |
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Many Asians, Latin Americans, and Middle Easterners believe if you are not willing to sacrifice for your friend, then, this person is really not a friend. True or False |
True |
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Among the family types, _____ see themselves as a blending of two people into a single couple. A. Independents B. Traditionalists C. Separates |
B. Traditionalists |
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It was in ancient Greece and ____ that our tradition of public speaking got its first start.
A. Prussia B. Egypt C. China D. Rome |
D. Rome
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The best public speakers are born, not made.
True or False |
False
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Some people have ____ apprehension, a general fear of communication.
A. Trait B. Grand C. Extrusive D. State |
A. Trait
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......while others suffer from _____ apprehension, which only occurs in certain situations.
A. Trait B. True C. Relative D. State |
D. State
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To ease public speaking apprehension, increase your perceived differences from the audience.
Of course Not true |
Not true
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Topoi is the system of topics. It comes from the classical rhetoric of ancient Rome and _____.
A. Greece B. China C. Prussia D. Wales |
A. Greece
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The thesis is your central idea, your theme; the essence of the speech. And it should be given special attention.
Of course False |
Of course
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The deep web is estimated to be perhaps ___ times the size of the open web.
A. 100 B. 50 C. 25 D. 10 |
B. 50
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_____ sources include articles from almanacs, journals, and or newspapers.
A. Primary B. Secondary C. Tertiary |
C. Tertiary
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The 2nd step in audience analysis is to construct an audience profile in which you analyze the audience members' sociological and demographic tendencies.
True or False |
False
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____ phrases help listeners see that you are moving from one idea to another.
A. Signpost B. Familiar C. Metonymy D. Imprompt |
A. Signpost
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"The professor prepared the lecture, graded the examination, and read the notices" is an example of which type of sentence?
A. Parallel B. Antethecal C. Periodic |
A. Parallel
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During speeches, try to use bromides such as "Honesty is the best policy."
True or False |
False
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Avoid Slang.
True or False |
True
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In ______ sentences, you reserve the keyword until the end of the sentence.
A. Parallel B. Antethecal C. Periodic |
C. Periodic
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Start your speech immediately upon arriving to podium.
Of course Of course not |
Of course not
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During a speech, which should you try to eliminate?
A. is B. be C. are D. was E. were F. all the above |
F. all the above
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"He cried like a faucet" is an example of _____.
A. Metaphor B. Alliteration C. Hyperbole D. Metonymy |
C. Hyperbole
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_______ is a connectedness, a relatedness with one's listener.
A. Clarity B. Immediacy C. Jargon D. Tactile |
B. Immediacy
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Synecdoche is the use of part of an object to stand for the whole object.
True or False |
True
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