Chapter 5 quiz Interpersonal comm

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

False

Individualist cultures tend to assign each member more personal space.

True

Nonverbal behaviors are generally more influential than verbal communication in establishing the relational level of meaning.

True

Nonverbal communication is arbitrary, ambiguous, and abstract.

True

In Bruno's car, he has many bumper stickers and several souvenirs from all the road trips that he has made in that car. What are Bruno's personal items examples of?

Artifacts

Paralanguage is communicated through all of these EXCEPT:

Hand gestures

Kandoor has a hard time pronouncing some English words, because his first language is so different from English. Kandoor is having some problems with:

Paralanguage

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

In many Eastern cultures, silence indicates:

Thoughtfulness

The personal objects we use to announce our identities and heritage and to personalize our environments are known as:

artifacts