Nvc Chapter 4

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Sommer concluded in his classroom studies: (1/5)

Students and teachers who dislike their learning environment will....

Back 1

try to avoid it or change it.

Front 2

Sommer concluded in his classroom studies: (2/5)

In general the amount of student participation decreases as....

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the number of students in the class increase.

Front 3

Sommer concluded in his classroom studies: (3/5)

The student participation in larger classes is most likely going to be devoted to....

Back 3

questions of clarification or requests to repeat an idea.

Front 4

Sommer concluded in his classroom studies: (4/5)

Participation was frequent most among the instructor's...

Back 4

eye gaze

Front 5

Sommer concluded in his classroom studies: (5/5)
When you put students in the participation zone....

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low participators remained low, but moderate participators increased

Front 6

Perceptions of warmth:

If you put a student in a room that looks like a meat cooler with padded walls, will the recipients think of the room as hotter or warmer?

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warmer, even if it is the same temperature

Front 7

Mehhrabian believes that we react emotionally to our environments according to three terms. What are they?

Back 7

arousal
dominance
pleasure

Front 8

how is pleasure defined?

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refers to the feelings of joy, satisfaction and happiness

Front 9

how is dominant defined?

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refers to feelings of control importance and freedom

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how is arousal defined?

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refers to how active, stimulated, frenzied or alert we are

Front 11

what is a nonscreener?

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they are less selective in what they respond to in their environment. they see, hear smell and otherwise sense more stimuli

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what is a screener?

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are selective in what they respond to. they impose a hieracrhy of importance on carious compoenents of a compex situation

Front 13

what the four major perceptions of time?

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1. as the locations of events
2. as the duration of events
3. as the iterval between events
4. as the patterning of intervals

Front 14

how can time be like location?

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this refers to the time that an event occuurs

Front 15

What are the three characterisitcs of environments that form the bases of perceptions?

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(1) the natural environment
(2) presense of absense of people
(4) arcitectural and design elements

Front 16

does the natural environment affect our behavoir?

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yes

Front 17

Do the changing seasons have an impact on our behavior

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yes

Front 18

Suicide rates and admissions to _________________ rise dramatically in the spring and peak in the ssummer.

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admissions to public mental hospitals

Front 19

College students tend to _________________ at the beginning and endings of semesters.

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break up with their dating partners

Front 20

During the summer, people tend to see __________ more.

Back 20

their friends

Front 21

From July to November, people tend to report _______ but more _________

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less happiness
activity and less boerdo

Front 22

One study found people using the _______ less in the summer than the winter

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phone

Front 23

Riots tend to break out when the weather is stronger.

t or f

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true

Front 24

what types of people are in nonperson status?

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children, janitors, cab frivers

Front 25

The presense of others may increase our desire to ______________.

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look good

Front 26

example of when groups influence individual behavior:

If people feel others are working with them on a joint task, they often ________ without realizing it. this is called...

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slack off

"social loafing

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example of when groups influence individual behavior:

Boys would line on fishing reels ________ when others were performing the activity, even though no competion was going on.

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faster

Front 28

what is a fized feature?

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refers to space organized by unmoving boundaries (rooms of houses)

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what is a semifixed feature?

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refers to the arrangement of movable objects such as tables or chairs

Front 30

People in prettier rooms during Maslow and Mintz study on ugly/beautiful rooms felt more...

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energized

Front 31

College students who found no school merchandise tended to ______.

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drop out in the first six months

Front 32

An orange room found positive social reactions increased ______, whereas negative reactions decreased _____.

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53%

12%

Front 33

A team wearing the color black was found...

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to be treated differently and even to have more penatlies than normal teams

Front 34

List three examples of sound that affected the environment.

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(1) couples listening over soothing music during a fight
(2) consumers buying german/french wine according to music being played unwillingly
(3)noise sensitive students reciving lower grades and wanting more privacy in first year of college

Front 35

List two examples of the way light can affect.

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(1) dim lighting hints to conversations with intimate partners
(2) Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) when the light affects the way people feel over the course of a winter season

Front 36

Desk placement can have an affect on student's understanding of the teacher.

true or false

Back 36

true

Front 37

what is one example of how design and architecture can affect people?

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the design of a skyscraper with the most experienced workers at the top, and the least experienced on the bottom

Front 38

People living next door to each other tend to befriend each other more.

true or fasle

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true

Front 39

The environment in which people communicate frequently .....

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contributes to the overall outcome of their encounters.

Front 40

We have seen that both the freqency and _______ of messages are influenced by various aspects of the seeting in which we communicate.

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context

Front 41

We can also _____ out environments in order to elicit certain types of repsonses.

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alter

Front 42

As out knowledge of environment increases, we may deliberealy use them to help us obtain ____________.

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desired responses

Front 43

In many respects, we are ___________________, and if we want to change behvaior, we need to learn to control the environment in which we interact.

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products of our environment

Front 44

In this chapter we referred to a variety of different environments:


name four

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classroom
dormitories
offices
prisons
fast food
homes
bars

Front 45

Mehraibain commented that all environments could profitably be examined b looking at....

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emotional reactions to them

Front 46

What three demenisions can Mehrabian's environmental feelings be put on?

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(1) arousing
(2) pleasant/unpleasant
(3) dominant/submissive

Front 47

what are the six perpetual bases for examining environments?

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(1) formal
(2) warm
(3) private
(4) failar
(5) constraiing
(6) distant

Front 48

when do people percieve temporal aspects of their environment?

Back 48

when things happen

how long they last

how much time exists between event

the pattern or rhythm of events

Front 49

what are the three major chacteristics of every temporal event?

Back 49

the natural environmnet

the presense or absense of people

architectural design and movable objects, including lighiting, sound, color, and general visual asethic appeal