Chapter 5 quiz Interpersonal comm
Men are more likely than women to use nonverbal behaviors to express how they feel.
False
Individualist cultures tend to assign each member more personal space.
True
Nonverbal behaviors are generally more influential than verbal communication in establishing the relational level of meaning.
True
Nonverbal communication is arbitrary, ambiguous, and abstract.
True
In Bruno's car, he has many bumper stickers and several souvenirs from all the road trips that he has made in that car. What are Bruno's personal items examples of?
Artifacts
Paralanguage is communicated through all of these EXCEPT:
Hand gestures
Kandoor has a hard time pronouncing some English words, because his first language is so different from English. Kandoor is having some problems with:
Paralanguage
Assuming an attentive posture, holding eye contact, and nodding to show you understand what another person is saying are nonverbal behaviors that convey which dimension of relational-level meanings?
Responsiveness
In many Eastern cultures, silence indicates:
Thoughtfulness
The personal objects we use to announce our identities and heritage and to personalize our environments are known as:
artifacts