Interpersonal Comm Quizzes

Which statement might be made by someone who is focused on body artifacts?

"I could tell she was smart because she was wearing glasses."

Bonita leans forward to tell Ricardo a funny story. She slowly stops talking as she realizes he continues facing forward in his seat and does not turn to face her. Bonita thinks Ricardo is not listening based on his _____.

Body orientation

Samantha is falling asleep in her chemistry lecture. Her professor assumes she is bored and probably stayed up late last night partying. In fact, Samantha is on a new medication that makers her drowsy. This illustrates the importance of____?

Distinguishing facts from inferences.

The belief that one's own culture is superior to other cultures is known as _____.

Ethnocentrism

____ is the set of coordinated behaviors that help us to either support or threaten our competence.

Facework

Which of the basic assumptions about nonverbal communication has to do with its intangible and abstract nature?

It is often ambiguous.

The main benefit of enculturation us that it ____?

It lets people become fully functional in their culture and accepted by their society.

Which basic assumption about nonverbal communication addresses mixed messages?

It may conflict with verbal communication.

When meeting in Cairo, Mike offers his hand to shake Fatima's. Instead, Fatima places her hand over her heart and slightly bows her head. This difference in greeting reflects cultural differences in ____?

Kinesics

_____is the study of how people communicate through bodily motions.

Kinesics

Differences between people in the same broad culture based on geographic locations are?

Regionalisms

____ occurs when predictions cause you to behave in a way that makes certain that events will occur as you imagined.

Self-fulfilling prophecy

____ suggests that communication with others shapes persona identity.

Symbolic Interactionism Theory

Oscar and Cecilia have been sending messages online for several moths and feel like they really "get" each other. When they meet face to face, however, they find it extremely difficult to understand each other's nonverbal communication styles. Oscar and Cecilia's situation reflects what?

Technology's effect on "nonverbal literacy".

One of the most noteworthy influences on culture and interpersonal relationships is?

The Internet.

More than any other part of the body, _____ gives others insight into how someone is feeling.

The face

The social information processing theory posits that?

There is the possibility of establishing equally intimate relationships on line as face to face; however, it takes much more time.

People from different cultures may have trouble understanding why others do what they do because____?

They are using different schemata to organize and interpret information.

A key difference between people from cultures with higher or lower degrees of uncertainty avoidance is that they have greater or lesser______?

Tolerance for change.

T/F Maintaining face is an interactive task.

True

Nonverbal communication regulates_____?

Turn-taking

Pitch and rate are ____?

Vocal qualities

Jan and Mike are discussing the concept of privilege. Jan, a member if a minority group, believes "privilege" is immunity from racism and discrimination. Mike, who is from a poor family, believes "privilege" is money and power. Their different concepts of what constitutes privilege come from their different_____?

Worldviews.

Linnete wants to wear her basketball shorts to church like her brother, but she does not. Instead she puts on a dress. This is an example of____?

`Gender role socialization

Context orientation theory deals with whether______

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Many employees hire a culturally diverse workforce because they want employees who can bring different perspectives to solving business challenges. Such employers also require employees attend diversity training so that they can learn how to deal with cultural differences respectfully on the job. This example illustrates how culture clash withing a group ______.

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What differentiates in-groups from out-groups?

A sense of belonging.

Historically, some European Americans traveled to live with Native Americans and eventually became fully accepted members of Native Americans cultures. Some of them also acted as trade or military liaisons between Native Americans and European Americans, traveling back and forth between Native and Europeans American communities. Such people were_____.

Both enculturated and acculturated.

The learned life experiences shared by all members if a group wuth the same norms, values, and traditions from the group's ____?

Culture

The most primitive form of human communication is ____?

Haptics.

Failing to understand nonverbal behaviors withing a cultural context could result in loss of ____?

Meaning

While meeting with a patient, Dr. Callaghan makes sure to be attentive to detail and observant of the patient's state of being. Dr. Callaghan is exhibiting______?

Mindfulness.

The ____ stage of interpersonal perceptions requires us to put information in an accessible and orderly fashion.

Organizing.

When Gail met Ingrid, see noticed that she seemed nervous so she decided that Ingrid was timid. Ingrid doesn't see herself that way at all. They have a difference in _____?

Perception.

The study of how communication is influenced by space and distance is referred to as ____?

Proxemics