Comm 1050 Test 3

According to OIT, the cycle of communication behaviors includes three stages. Which of the following correctly lists the stages and the order in which they occur?

Act, respond, adjust

The narrative paradigm asserts that...

All of these

--- was a later addition to the pentad and refers to the manner in which the agent positions her- or himself relative to others

Attitude

Before he creates his speech, Antonio considers the age, sex, and educational level of his audience. He is engaging in

Audience analysis

Aristotle felt that --- and --- ranked above all other virtues

Courage; justice

All of the following statements about the cultural approach to organizations are true except

Culture is something an organization has, not something it is

All of the following are assumptions of Dramatism except

Humans are rational beings

All of the following are assumptions of Structuration theory except

In employing the processes of agency and flexivity, group members are equipped with the ability to articulate reasons for their behaviors

All of the following are symptoms of groupthink except

Insulation of the group

When you are skeptical about your classmates account of what happened at last night's party because it is inconsistent with what your roommate told you happened, you are doubting the --- of your classmate

Material coherence

Following publicity of the scandal that ended his political career, Eliot Spitzer apologized for how he acted this is...

Mortification

The significant change in thinking from viewing persuasion as resulting from well-reasoned arguments to acknowledging that humans are often more persuaded by a good story, has been called a

Paradigm shift

When you do what your boss asks you to do because you recognize that she has the ability to promote you following next month's performance evaluations, you are acknowledging her

Reward power

Aristotle's definition --- has become corrupted over the years and now is used as a pejorative term for words without substance

Rhetoric

Louie is late for his date with Rachel. When she ask where he was, he blames it on his roommate. This is...

Scapegoating

Which of the three stages in the process of reducing equivocality requires an organization to make a decision about the rules and cycles that will be used for obtaining or understanding information?

Selection

Renaldo always has a smile on his face when he enters the workplace. His colleagues comment on how much they appreciate his taking the time to stop and ask how their day is going as he passes by their desks. Renaldo is engaging in which type of communicative performance?

Social

All of the following are methods of investigation used by ethnographers to examine organizational culture except

Survey questionnaires

In structuration theory, the --- is the group or organization and the behviors that the group engages in to pursue its goals, and the ---- is the rules and resources used to sustain a group or organization

System/ structure

Structuration is defined as

The process by which systems are produced and reproduced through member's use of rules and resources

The material objects of an organization, such as the your school's logo and buildings, are called

physical symbols

Groups that have a clearly defined plan for the procedures that should be followed in the decision-making process will be more susceptible to groupthink

False

The theory that describes the influence of information that is received from an organization's external environments, as well as the interrelationship among various units in an organization, is

General systems theory

According to Burke, --- is the primary motive for human communication and interaction

Guilt

Cohesiveness of the group may emerge as a problem because

Highly cohesive groups tend to exert great pressure on their members to conform to the group's standards

A syllogism represents a form of --- logic

Deductive

All of the following are recommendations provided by Hart for reducing groupthink except

Discourage whistle-blowing

The meetings your boss organizes each week in order to help the employees in your department experience less ambiguity about upcoming projects is an example of a

Double interact loop

All of the following are assumptions of OIT except

Equivocality of information is useful for assisting an organization in achieving its goals

--- refers to the perceived character, intelligence, and goodwill of a speaker.

Ethos

The person who engages in behavior in the group is referred to as the --- by structuration theorists

agent

Fisher argues that...

all communication is narrative

The narrative paradigm argues that the criteria used to evaluate stories are...

coherence and fidelity

Janis's research on group dynamics, which led to development of Groupthink theory, resulted primarily from his investigation and analyses of

foreign policy decisions

Rebekkah is responsible for balancing the cash register at the end of every workday. This is an example of a--- ritual

task