Comm- 201 Exam 1

We often put more trust into what people say over what people do.

FALSE

The social norm that leads us to avoid making eye contact with people in situations that deviate from social norms is called:

Civil inattention

Artifacts are possessions that:

Communicate our identities

The sexual implication of the word "lingerie" is due to

Connotation

Julio has worked hard to become good at public spreaking. For Julio, public speaking is

Conscious competence

If Toni is attempting to tell Sharra a message, but she mixes her observations with her thoughts and feelings, what kind of messages is she sending to Sharra?

Contaminated

_________ refers to our ability to talk about events that are removed in space or time from a speaker and situation.

Displacement

A raised middle finger, waving your hand back and forth, and sticking your thumb in the air to signal something went well are all examples of:

Emblems

Congruence refers to nonverbal behaviors that contradict each other.

FALSE

Which of the following is not a part of civiv engagement:

Getting a college degree

The grade I expect to receive on this exam is

A/B/C/D/F

Raul is complaining to his roommate about the "selfish" classmate who wouldn't let him copy notes from the class he missed earlier in the week. In this case, "selfish" is a(n) ________

An internal attribution/ A schema (will not ask on final)

You are surprised when your friend reports that she hated the movie you recommended. Which of the following likely played a role in your inaccurate perceptions?

Assumed similarity

________ refers to the study of communication by touch.

Haptics

The more abstract a concept is, the:

Higher it is on the ladder of abstraction

Making a bad impression on a first date or during a job interview could negatively influence later impressions. This is known as the:

Horn effect / Primacy error (will not ask on final)

According to Professor Fallon, _______ is determined by the groups to which we belong.

Identity

Primacy effect and recency effect influence:

Impressions

In communication, feedback:

Includes messages sent in response to other messages

__________ encourages learners to reflect on how the content they are learning connects to other classes they have taken, their professional goals, and their civic responsibilities.

Integrative leaning

Which communcation model would aplly to the following scenario: Bob sens a message to Cindy. Cindy recives the messages and sends a reply message to Bob. Bob recives the reply from Cindy.

Interaction Model

Which form of motivation is more likely to lead people to successfully achieve their goals and be happy despite sacrifices made and failures experienced along the way?

Internal/Intrinsic (will not ask on final)

The form of communication which typically requires the least preparation is

Intrapersonal

The process by which we learn to understand, produce, and use words to communicate within a given language group is known as:

Language acquisition

During the near 5,000- year period of the ________, literacy, or the ability to read and write, didn't spread far beyond the most privileged in society.

Manuscript Era

Public communication becomes _______ when it is transmitted to many people through print or electronic media.

Mass communication

When time is seen as a commodity that can be budgeted, saved, spent, and wasted, the orientation of time is referred to as:

Monochronic

Nonverbal communication is:

More involuntary than verbal communication

"I'm doing surveys for my biology class. Would you help me pass them out tomorrow?" This sentence is an example of which of the four types of expressions?

Needs/ It isn't an example of any of them (will not ask on final)

__________ are often formed by combining words or adding suffixes or prefixes to existing words.

Neologisms/ Slang words (will not ask on final)

The transmission model of communication describes communication as a _________ process in which a sender intentionally transmits a message to a receiver.

One-way linear

Taking an oath in court binds one to tell the truth. This illustrates that communication is

Performative/Controlling (will not ask on final)

We are most uncomfortable when someone unfamiliar enters our:

Personal space/Intimate space (will not ask on final)

________ includes needs that keep our bodies and minds functioning.

Physical Needs

According to Professor Fallon, there are two types of public speaking anxiety, They are

Psychological and physiological

Perceptions of communcation competence can be affected by

Race, Status, Gender, Age (ALL OF THE ABOVE)

Which of the following is not a guideline for interpreting nonverbal messages?

Read nonverbal cues separately instead of in clusters

Which of the following is the part of the triangle of meaning pertaining to the actual thing or phenomenon?

Referent

When we walk into a room and see a chalkboard and rows and rows of desks facing the board, we think of a classroom because of our __________ related to eductaion.

Schema

_________ is the first part of the perception process in which we focus our attention on certain incoming sensory information.

Selecting

Sherry considers herself to be a funny and easygoing person. What Sherry is describing are clues to her:

Self-concept

While self-concept is a broad description of the self, ________ is more specifically an evaluation of the self.

Self-esteem

"She's as red as a lobster" is an example of a:

Simile

Handholding, kissing, and hugging are examples of tie signs.

TRUE

Leakage refers to nonverbal behaviors that reveal our true feelings.

TRUE

__________ is the drive to take up and defend spaces that is shared by many creatures, ranging from packs of animals to individual humans to nations.

Territoriality

Basic sensory information gained from sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell help us to __________ information.

Understand or Perceive (will not as on final)

A generic greeting is classified as:

Understood, phatic communication, or public communication (will not ask on final)

Paralanguage is considered a:

Vocal part of nonverbal communication

Punctuation:

is used to determine the cause and effect of our communication interactions / in used to determine the consequences of communication interactions/ is used to understand the process of communication interactions (will not be asked on final)