COM QUIZZES

Your girlfriend frequently complains that even though you have a great time when alone, you really need to go out more with friends. This is an example of the tension that sometimes occurs in a relationship best described as the ______ dialectic.

Inclusion-Seclusion

The ___________ asserts that the language a speaker uses influences the way he or she thinks.

Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis

Reality is not reflected in what we say; it is created, by what we say is a fundamental tenet of __________ Theory.

Relational Dialects

Communication is about mutual meaning making. It is also transactional and

a process

Language signifying concepts, qualities, or ideas is

abstract

Both verbal and nonverbal communication is composed of _______ symbols to which we give meaning, and we, in turn, behave according to those meanings.

arbitrary

A way to offer that feedback beyond those noncommittal responses is to

ask clarifying questions

We typically use euphemisms because we wish to obey which rule of pragmatic competence?

be polite

When listeners prejudge a speaker or a topic as either old-news, boring, overly complex, or unimportant, __________ is likely to occur.

biased-listening

meaning is a word's explicit meaning, the one that directly comes to mind when used by a specific speech community. ___________meaning is a word's more implicit, usually emotionally or culturally enriched meaning.

denotative/connotative

Emblems, adaptors, illustrators, affect displays, and regulators are all forms of __________.

gesticulations

Fakers, dependent listeners, and _______ are examples of counterproductive listening styles.

interrupters

space is most likely to be employed between two roommates engaged in casual conversation.

personal

Your sister turns to you and says, "Are you as hungry as I am? Why don't you come to lunch with me?" Her question is a good example of the operation of ___________ in language.

positive

Social Exchange Theory and the Investment Model of Commitment share a few ideas, among them the apparent similarity between Social Exchange Theory's CLALT and the Investment Model'

quality of alternatives

Gestures to help the flow of speech, for example, raising your hand in class are

regulators

are active organizations of past reactions or of past experiences

schemas

Perception requires all the following processes: organization, interpretation, and

selection

is something that signals the presence of something specific; that is, it is more or less an objective substitute for that thing

sign

A stop sign is a stop sign—rather than a stop symbol—because it is a more-or-less ________ substitution for something else, in this case, an official order to stop your car

sign/symbol

Your girlfriend has been on vacation for three weeks and never bothered to contact you—not even a postcard. So upon her return you explain how frustrated you are with her and then avoid taking her phone calls for two weeks. You are employing which form of nonverbal communication to complement your message?

silence

Which of the following sentences best demonstrates the metaphor of Argument as War?

He shot down all of my arguments.

Which model represents the most contemporary view of the communication process?

transactional

Offering appropriate feedback is an example of being a _________ listener.

transactive

Your boyfriend frequently complains that although he loves your frankness, maybe sometime you might want to keep your thoughts about his mother to yourself. This is an example of the tension that sometimes occurs in a relationship best described as the ______ dialectic.

Openness-Closedness

You want to buy Teflon-coated pans for your new kitchen, convinced of their convenience, but your partner insists that the coating is bad for your health, having recently read a study in a respected science magazine. To your surprise, this disagreement grows into a full-on argument. You are experiencing ___________ conflict.

cognitive

Essential to the idea of the transactional view of communication is that ___________.

communication changes the communicators

The difference in the English language between the words home and house is actually a difference in

connotative meaning

Culture is the world made meaningful. It is socially __________ through communication.

constructed and maintained

The amount of time we give to our loved ones reflects not only the value we place on relational bonds, but the ___________ values as well.

culture's

The fact that we use communication to engage, manage, and disengage from relationships suggests that relationship

develop

You're walking down the street in your state's capital city. You hear people with accents that seem quite at home there, but you also hear folks talking with a decidedly different accent. You instantly know they're visitors to your state. This is an example of culture's power to

differentiate

Shaking your head "no" is an example of what type of gesticulation?

emblem

Gestures to help the flow of speech, for example, raising your hand in class are

emblems?

Your friend shows you a funny comic she drew for the school paper. You examine it, get the joke, and smile at her. You have, in other words, successfully _________ her message

encoded

Your project partner insists on twirling her hair and swaying back and forth while she's talking, making it difficult for you to focus on what she has to say about her portion of the work. This ______ noise interferes with __________ component of the HURIER model.

external distraction/ the hearing

A particularly counterproductive style is that of ________, know-it-alls who automatically write off topics or people as irrelevant or uninteresting. Social convention, however, requires that they at least look like they are listening.

fakers

is how we structure a message by using nonverbal communication to repeat, complement, contradict, substitute for, and regulate what we say.

framing

Languages such as Spanish and German differentiate between male and female nouns. These are examples of languages that engage in the __________ of nouns

gendering

Andrew talks to his friends using abbreviated words and does not always use correct grammar, but when their professor joins their conversation they all speak with more attention to proper grammar. This switch is an example of language having ____________ meaning.

situational

One thing that relationships give us is _________, the knowledge that there are people who share our values and interests

social integration

The assumption that relational progress is often systematic and predictable is central to __________ theory.

social penetration

a linear commincation model can be described as ________ model of communication because it views the success of the communication effort as primarily within the sender's control

source dominated

The order of a basic linear process of communication follows the pattern ______.

source>medium>receiver

As your friendship with your roommate moves from impersonal to more personal communication, you both begin to reveal things about yourself that are more private. As you each do this, the other responds similarly. This is

the norm of reciprocity

Sometimes you may not want to learn more about someone you have to deal with, but because you HAVE to deal with that person you work to reduce relational uncertainty. You are motivated by __________ to do so.

the prospect of future interaction