Communications final

Which one of the following statements is true about emotions?

We experience emotions holistically

"When you said my idea was stupid, I felt hurt" is an example of ____ language

You

Which of the following is a personal construct

Your idea about how you should interact with a friend

Men are more likely than women to use nonverbal behaviors to express how they feel

False

Passion is the primary foundation for enduring romance.

False

Reciprocity of self-disclosures is especially important after a relationship has become established

False

Selective listening is effective because we focus on the most important part of a message

False

Speech communities are not necessarily defined by geographic locations and boundaries

False

The meanings we assign to behavior in romantic relationships are entirely individualistic.

False

The tensions of relational diabetics keep relationships stagnant because they increase interpersonal friction and stress

False

The win win conflict style is always the best approach

False

When friendships deteriorate or suffer serious violations, communication changes in unpredictable ways

False

Women and minorities generally take up more space than men in western society

False

"Memorial Day parades are patriotic, yet sad events," is an example of ________ rule

Framing

During this stage, each person checks the other to see whether common ground and interests exist

Friendly relations

During the ____ phase of romantic relationship deterioration; individuals try to make sense of what the relationship meant; why it didn't work out, what it meant, and how it affected them.

Grave dressing

Psychologists define —- as rules for living and identity

Identity scripts

During a student speech, the campus landscapers begin mowing the lawn, making the students presentation difficult to hear. The audience is experiencing ____

Noise

Which of these is not a valid reason for withholding expression of emotions?

Not owning feelings

Chat rooms can be evaluated based on how interesting or boring the conversations are. This statement best represents

Scripts

Wanting to get good grades would be placed in which of Maslow hierarchy of needs?

Self-actualization

Linnea's parents praise her for earning high marks in her first year of college. Linnea's parents are addressing her ___ needs.

Self-esteem

The following statement is not true of expressing emotions via social media

The same rules apply when using social media as in face to face communication

According to judi miller, children began to understand and follow communication rules as early as 1 to 2 years of age

True

Ambushing is listening carefully for the purpose of attacking a speaker.

True

Both verbal and nonverbal communication may be deliberately controlled or unintentional

True

Geographic distance is the reason the majority of high school friendships dissolve when students begin college

True

How we see ourselves greatly influences our choices in potential romantic partners

True

In communication systems all parts of a system interact and affect each other.

True

In the us popular magazines and movies communicate the perspectives of the generalized other

True

Perceptions are the way humans see the world and they are subjective

True

Selective listening also occurs when we reject communication that makes us uneasy

True

Teachers, peers, and family members are all examples of particular others.

True

The likelihood of sustaining a long-distance friendship also depends on other factors, such as socioeconomic class and sex.

True

We use stereotypes to make predictions about people and situations

True

According to Eric Berne, games

hide the real issues in a conflict

Many scholars argue that race

is a socially constructed category

In ____ we communicate attention and interest

responding

Friendships generally begin with

role-limited interaction

People socialized in masculine speech communities tend to achieve closeness in interpersonal relationships primarily through:

sharing activities

Common forms of expressing feelings INEFFECTIVELY include:

speaking in generalities

The opposite of strategy is

spontaneity

This kind of communication feels open, honest, and unpremeditated

spontaneity

Immediately after hearing a message, most people remember less than ___ of what they have heard.

35%

A key foundation for improving your self-concept is:

Accepting the self as in process

Paralanguage is communicated through

All of these

3 characteristics of symbols used in languge

Arbitrary, abstract, and ambiguous

Which of the following comments would likely be made during the invitational stage of romantic relationships?

Are you also a communication studies major?

Fun would be placed in which of Maslow hierarchy of needs?

Belonging needs

Which one of the following statements is true about conflict in relationships?

Conflict is inevitable in all interpersonal relationships

Deborah is surprised when her friend reaches across the table to get a pepper shaker. To herself deb says "reaching across the table is rude." Deborahs perception of her friends behavior is based on a _____ rule.

Constitutive

This is the totality of beliefs, values, understandings, practices, and ways of interpreting experience that are shared by a number of people

Culture

Pat says "I am so stupid I'll never graduate from college. I just can't learn this chem because I am so dumb!" Pats self communication is an example of

Engaging in self sabotage

This communication confirms the worth of others and our concern for them. An example is "I can understand why you feel that way."

Equality

As the faculty meeting stretches to three hours, Renee starts to experience listening fatigue or ___, one listening obstacle

Lack of effort

When we listen like this, we attend only to the content level and overlook what's being communicated on the relationship level

Literal listening

The ____ response to interpersonal conflict is both destructive and passive.

Neglect

This included accents, pronunciation, and the complexity of sentences

Paralanguage

The ____ view or emotions is also called appraisal theory

Perceptual

All of the following are external pressure to friendships except

Personal (internal) changes

Which of the following is not a regulative rule of interpersonal communication ?

Speaking is a way to show you care about issues.

Mary says, "I would never join a sorority. All the members do is party and go shopping." Mary's statement is an example of a

Stereotype

Because nonverbal communication is ____ selective perception is likely to occur.

Symbolic

Which of the following is a prototype?

the person who exemplifies a friend to you

Ego boundaries refer to:

where an individual stops and the rest of the world begins

Expressing feelings is always advisable

False

In the us mothers are more likely than fathers to challenge children and encourage them to achieve more

False

Research shows that eyewitness testimony is highly reliable

False

Romantic relationships do not follow a developmental course like friendly relations do

False

________ in interpersonal relationships involves believing in another person's reliability and emotionally relying on that person.

Trust

theory of linguistic determinism states

language determines what we can perceive and think

The clearest indication that a friendship is in the waning stage is:

less quality and quantity of communication

The three primary styles of love are

eros, storge, and ludos

The perspectives of the ____ other reflect the views generally held by others in a society

generalized

Men and women tend to differ somewhat in their listening. Men tend to focus their listening on specific content areas of communication, while women tend to focus on

the whole of communication

____ models of communication highlight the dynamic nature of interpersonal communication.

transactional

Zach believes that in conflict situations the goal is to find a solution that all those involved can accept. Zach's orientation to conflict is best described as:

win-win

One indication that a friendship is the the nascent stage is that participants

work out private rules for interacting

Which of the following is a script

your idea about how you should interact with a friend

The sense of touch is

Haptics

3 levels of interpersonal communication

I-IT, i-thou, I-you

Kittys supervisor says "I'm the boss, so we'll go with my plan for this project." The supervisors message addresses the _____ dimension of relationship meaning

Power

The counterpoint to control is

Problem orientation

This communicates openness to other points of view. We suggest that our minds aren't sealed.

Provisionalism

According to research reports discussed in the textbook, the greatest influences on interpersonal attraction include

Proximity

Which is the most abstract term in the following examples?

Reading matter

In face to face classrooms, students are typically instructed to raise their hands before answering the teachers question. This requirement is a ____ rule

Regulative

Egocentric people cannot take the perspectives of others.

True

Many scholars think that most or all emotions are socially constructed to a substantial degree

True

Most of us have attitudes about conflict that reflects scripts we learned in our families.

True

Research on emotions and concluded that blends of emotion are common.

True

The ____ area contains information that others know about us but we don't know about ourselves.

blind

Specific communication behaviors that contribute to unproductive interpersonal conflict include all of the following except

asking questions for clarification

Charlene is always late, because she is so lazy. This is an example of:

attribution

Verbal communication and nonverbal communication are similar in all of the following respects except

both are perceived as equally believable.

Ethnocentrism is one form of ____ communication

certainty

This refers to how we perceive and use time to define identities and interaction

chronemics

All of the following are distinct ways North Americans respond to relational distress except

cognitive complexity

If a parent says to a 5-year-old child, "Clean your room now", the ____ meaning is that the room is to be cleaned immediately.

content

Management of what we feel inside ourselves is called

deep acting

The opposite of superiority is

equality

We might make a small self disclosure to signal that wed like to personalize the relationship or meet outside of contexts that naturally occur.

moving toward friendship

As soon as the news program begins an interview with the President, Dolores quits paying attention and she mumbles to herself, "I already know everything he has to say and I don't want to hear it again." Dolores' ability to listen is being hindered by __________.

prejudgment

Relational culture is best defined as

private understandings, rules, and meanings that partners create

Salina is angry with her boyfriend, so she refuses to sit near him in the car or to let him get really close to her while they are walking. To communicate her anger, Salina is relying on

proxemics

Of her marriage Myra says, "It wasn't like we ever really fell in love. It was more like we grew together kind of gradually. I think of my husband as my best friend." Myra seems to have which style of loving?

storge