Types of Nonverbal Communication

Intimate Zone

A kindergarten teacher helps a student who scraped her knee at recess.

Shari would consider Ali's tardiness rude and inconsiderate since Ali was the one to invite her to dinner. Naturally, Shari would expect Ali to be there first. To Ali, his own lateness would be understandable and acceptable because he knows that he had just attended an important appointment and had to compromise.

Explain why Ali and Shari would differ over whether Ali's lateness is rude. Ali invited a fellow classmate, Shari, to dinner. She arrived at the restaurant at precisely 7:00 p.m., the agreed time. Ali arrived a half-hour later and explained that he had to wrap up a 7:00 p.m appointment with his professor.

Adaptor

Identify the type of body movement. biting nails when nervous

Neutralization

Identify the type of facial expression. When Trish's best friend accidentally revealed that she was throwing a surprise party for Trish's sixteenth birthday, Trish kept a straight face and pretended not to hear.

Playful

Identify the type of touch. Tom slapped his friend John on the back to congratulate him on executing a double-play.

True

It is easier to detect happiness than sadness on a person's face.

False

Paralanguage always reinforces verbal messages, unlike metalanguage.

Paralanguage

To which of the following does the statement below apply? "Emphasis influences interpretation."

social standards desire for independence desire for acceptance desire to communicate

Which factors influence self-presentation? Select all that apply.

Illustrator

holding a hand out above the ground to show the height of something

Emblem

holding up an index finger and middle finger to show the "peace" sign

haptics

nonverbal behavior that involves touching

proxemics

nonverbal communication that involves space

chronemics

nonverbal communication that involves time.

disfluences

pauses such as "ah" or "hmmm"

monochronistic

tending to schedule only one activity at a time

polychronistic

tending to schedule several activities at the same time

paralanguage

vocal nonverbal language