Chapter 6: The Nonverbal Dimension of Communication

Touching and being touched is not essential to a healthy life. T or F?

False

Nonverbal behaviors are keen indicators of whether we feel positive or negative about others. T or F?

True

Nonverbal communication is more continuous than verbal communication. T or F?

True

Nonverbal communication is often more powerful than verbal language in conveying relationship-level meanings. T or F?

True

People with high status and/or power tend to touch others and invade others' space more than do people with less power and/or status. T or F?

True

There is little evidence that nonverbal behavior is more trustworthy than verbal communication. T or F?

True

We use artifacts and dress to express our personal identities. T or F?

True

We use paralanguage to perform gender. T or F?

True

Edward Hall found that in the United States, we interact with social acquaintances from a distance of

4 feet to 12 feet

Jeff is the owner of an Italian restaurant and makes deliberate choices about the dimness of the lighting, the softness of the music, and the choice of colors on the wall. Jeff's choices reflect which type of nonverbal communication?

Environmental factors

Most nonverbal behaviors are instinctual. T or F?

False

Scholars estimate that nonverbal communication accounts for what percentage of the total meaning in interpersonal communication?

More than 65%

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

Both verbal and nonverbal communication are symbolic, guided by constitutive and regulative rules, and culture bound. T or F?

True

Bax lives in a culture where "time is money." What type of nonverbal communication is expressed with this saying?

chronemics

All aspects of communication other than the words themselves are known as

nonverbal communication