COM1000 Midterm

Showing both fear and happiness at the same time is an example of a _____.

Affect Blend

A deliberately vague statement that can be interpreted in more than one way is referred to as ________.

An equivocation

The goal of _______ is to fully understand the message

Analytical listening

Which term goes beyond the dark economy of masculine and feminine by describing a combination of masculine feminine traits?

Androgynous

The process of attaching meaning to behavior is called

Attribution

The method by which a message is conveyed between people call a ________.

Channel

The study of how human beings use and structure time is called ________.

Chronemics

The perception of membership in a group that is part of an encompassing culture is referred to as _______.

Coculture

According to the text, the ability to achieve goals while maintaining or enhancing a relationship in which it occurs involves ________ .

Communication competence

There is no hot the reason why the letters in the word is stand for the objects you're talking nowThis demonstrates which characteristic of communication?

Communication is symbolic

Nonverbal cues that reinforce a message are known as

Complementing

Listeners who are more concerned with making their point than with understanding the speaker are called

Controversial narcissist

The goal of ________ is to go beyond understanding and analyzing a topic to try to assess its quality.

Critical listening

Hailey been lied to before, she tends to think most people are dishonest. According to research on deception, Haley has a ______.

Deception bias

Scampering-the use of um ur and so on-is also called _______.

Dysfluency

When two or more people agree about linguistic schools and customs, they will more than likely have _______ .

Effective communication

According to the textbook, _______ are typically judged to be appealing and trustworthy

Effective listeners

Self-regulation and internal motivation are two of the five proposed dimensions

Emotional intelligence

_________ contains words that sound as if they are describing something when they are really announcing the speaker's attitude toward something.

Emotive Language

The ability to re-create another person's perspective, to experience the world from another's point of view is referred to as _______.

Empathy

You prefer classrooms with natural light interview of the campus through the window. This preference is related to which contextual element of nonverbal communication?

Environment

The verbal and nonverbal ways we have to show a positive image of ourselves to others is called

Face work

When the emotions conveyed via verbal and nonverbal messages are at odds people tend to believe the verbal message.

False

A receiver perceivable response to a message is _______.

Feedback

Touching your index finger to your thumb whileyour other fingers point Upward means okay in the United States, but in which country doesn't mean you're worth zero?

France

A new theory of gender proposing that gender cannot be simply categorize the social expectations can be confining, and that showing gender qualities may be related to content and mood is called

Gender matrix

People who assume that an individual who is taller than average is also likely to be more intelligent than average are demonstrating _______.

Halo effect

The physiological ability to perceive the presence of sounds in the environment is refererd to as _____.

Hearing

The communication strategies people use to influence how others view them is called ________.

Identity management

Listeners that are not able to look be on the stated words and/or nonverbal cues of the speaker to understand the real meaning are called _________

In Insensitive listeners

Bill is talking to Ted when Ted interrupts him, Bill responded to the interruption by stating, "You couldn't care less about anything I have to say!". This is an example of ________.

Inference

________ Influence the degree to which people either overlook or imagine deception by others.

Internal biases

The theory describing the complex interplay of peoples identities, at the intersection of multiple factors, giving rise to a unique perspective and I collection of experiences is known as

Intersectionality

Which of the following statements is true about nonverbal communication?

It helps define relationships.

Which are falling payments below is true of empathy?

It is impossible to achieve total empathy

Which of the following is most clearly an example of non-verbal communication?

Laughing

A person's biological category such as male female and intersex are referred to as

Their sex

Through ___, you make sense of a message

Understanding

mediated communication channels Include

Voicemail

Before committing yourself to helping another person

Welcome

A(n) __________ involved pronunciations perceived as different from the local speech style

accent

Language that tends to focus on emotions is characterized as

affective

The type of statement that cannot be proved or disproved is called ________.

an opinion statement

it's a mistake to think that communication competence is a trait to prison either possesses or lacks that's because

competent communication is both situational and can be learned

The tendency to transmit messages without considering the consequences is called _______ .

disinhibition

A pleasent term substituted for a more direct but potentially less pleasent one is referred to as

euphemism

If you want to signal job well done in Japan you should use the thumbs-up sign whose meaning is universal

false

Jared tends to focus on solving problems and accomplishing tasks when speaking. This is known as a(n) _________ use of language.

instrumental

Messages send messages which you communicate carelessly, especially online me sometimes come back to haunt you.This demonstrates the communication is ________.

irreversible

Which is the following is a type of disruptive language

opinion statements

Fast or slow, small or large, smart of stupid, and short or long are __________ words.

relative

Arbitary constructions that represent a commuinicator's thooughts are referred to in the chapter as

symbols

The rules that govern the structure of language

syntactic rules

Which of the statements below is true of perception checking?

Perception checking minimizes defensiveness

The rules that govern how words sound when they are pronounced are called ______.

Phonological rules

South American, Mediterranean, and era cultures are known for which approach to time?

Polychronic

When her professor hands back her term paper and says, "Meet me in my office after class. We need to talk," Dahlia's stomach lurches, a reaction influenced by which rule of language?

Pragmatic

The rules that govern how people use and understand the language in everyday interactions are known as __________.

Pragmatic Rules

And I'm fairly biased and intolerant attitude towards others who belong to an out group is called

Prejudice

Fathima was uncomfortable when a stranger sat very close to her on the bus, But when in attractive classmate moves closer to her to see what she was writing, she was delighted.This behavior falls under which category of non-verbal communication?

Proxeimics

The term _______ describes how we develop an image of ourselves the way we think Others view us

Reflected appraisal

Non-verbal turn taking cues in conversation are known as

Regulating

The goal of this type of Listening is to emotionally connect with others

Relational listening

Which statement below characterizes how supportive listening is different from relational listening?

Relational listening helps listener connect to the speaker and supportive listening aims to help the speaker deal with personal dilemmas

Through ________, you recall previously introduced information.

Remembering

In _______ a message, you get a observable feedback to the speaker

Responding to

Listeners that respond to only parts of the speakers remarks that interest them are called ______.

Selective listeners

Esperanza was predicted and expected to do poorly in math class. Again semester, Esperanza got an F In math this is an example of _______.

Self fulfilling prophecy

The process of paying close attention to one's behavior and using these observations to shape the way one behaves is known as:

Self monitoring

A _______ Occurs when a person's expectation of an outcome, and their subsequent behavior make the outcome more likely to occur then would otherwise have been the case.

Self-fulfilling prophecy

If you find explanations outside yourself when you suffer a setback, but tend to blame others problems on their personal flaws you're exhibiting ______.

Self-serving bias

A person's opinion is important enough to affect one's self-concept is called

Significant other

The language used by a group of people whose members belong to a similar coculture or other group

Slang

Mary Chesapeake for selfish shy, thoughtful, serious, and compassionate these characteristics are known as

Social traits

Whenever a speaker pauses Sammy jumps in and start to talk about himself, Sammy is a

Stage hog

Listeners who assume that particular accents are invariably proof of specific abilities and traits are exhibiting _______.

Stereotypes

Ethan simply struts his shoulders when his mother asked him if he'll be home Saturday night to babysit his sister. This is an example of _______.

Substituting

In _______ , the primary aim is to help the speaker deal with personal dilemmas

Supportive listening

You to use ______ to represent things, processes, ideas, or events in ways that make communication possible

Symbols

When you feel compassion for another person's predicament, this is ______.

Sympathy

"Going you the tonight game are" Which rules help explain the mistakes in the above sentence?

Syntactic Rules

Andrea asks Josh questions to make sure she understands what he's saying. What type of listening is most closely connected to this tactic?

Task oriented listening

The president of university often have the largest offices on campus this is an illustration of which nonverbal contextual element?

Territory

Which sentence blew best represents that meanings are in people, not in words?

The meanings people associate with words have far more significance than do their dictionary definitions.

Sometimes we disclose how we honestly feel about our blog and sometimes we don't. This is because of the private nature Of ______.

The perceived self

Which statement below breaks down the differences between the linear and transactional models?

The roles of sender and receiver are separate in the linear model, But they are considered co-communicators in the transactional model.

Which statement below best relate to perceived physical noise?

The sound of traffic, music, others speech, and the light may interfere with your ability to hear well

Hi self monitors are usually more aware of their identity management behaviors, while low self monitors are not. This is because

People differ in their degree of competence in identity management

A tool for helping to understand others accurately instead of assuming that your first interpretation is correct is called

Perception checking

When the brain reconstructs electrochemical impulses into a representation of the original sound and then give them meaning this is called _________.

Listening

The degree to which what a listener understand corresponds with the message the center attempts to communicate is called ________.

Listening fidelity

An example of external noise is ______.

Loud music

People with ________ Are less willing to communicate, more likely to be critical of others and expect rejection from them, and more likely to be critical of their own performances and perform poorly when being watch.

Low self-esteem

Terry Rutter temples frequently when speaking. This nonverbal behavior is called an

Manipulator

And article in the print edition of the magazine is An example of _____ .

Mass communication

Some people may be insulted if you tell them they are savage while others may take it as a compliment this illustrates that ______.

Meanings rest in people

A message expressed through nonlinguistic means is called _______.

Nonverbal communication

Larger, more permanent collections of people engage in _______ when they collectively work to achieve goals

Organizational communication

The label _______ Is used to describe those we view as different and with whom we have no Sense of affiliation

Outgroup

Another type of feedback, termed _____, involved restating in your own words the message you thought the speaker sent, without adding anything new.

Paraphrasing