Human Comms Exam I

If Paul's mother was cold and distant during his childhood, the ___________ association with the word "mother" is likely to be negative. connotative denotative

Connotative

Culture is the world made meaningful. It is socially __________ through communication. uplifted and solidified constructed and maintained reinforced and embedded challenged and strengthened negotiated and destroyed

Constructed and maintained

___________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 Connotative/Denotative Implied/Ritual Ritual/Implied Presentational/Representational

Denotative/ Connotative

You're trying to listen to the instructor's lecture, but the music from the jazz class next door is simply too loud. This ______ noise interferes with the __________ component of the HURIER model. physical/hearing physical/responding physiological/hearing psychological/understanding external/understanding

Physical/ responding

Your face communicates more information than any other channel of nonverbal behavior because of the principle of facial ___________. expressions. importance. function. primacy.

Primacy

The first "R" in the HURIER model represents ____________. remembering reinforcing reflecting rehearsing replicating

Remembering

Your professor is giving a lecture but uses technical jargon throughout the entire lecture confusing the class so no one knows what is going on. This is an example of ______ noise. physical semantic psychological physiological

Semantic

One of your professors has an accent that makes it almost impossible for you to understand him. This is an example of __________. psychological noise external distractions physiological noise semantic noise ethnocentrism

Semantic noise

Which of the following is a common misconception about hearing? Hearing and listening are the same thing. Listening is natural and easy. Listening is a matter of intelligence. Gender affects listening skills. All of these are common misconceptions.

All of these are common misconceptions

Which of the following terms refers to the way we use time? chronemics proxemics kinesics olfactics

Chronemics

Which term best describes the process by which signs, symbols, and behaviors are used to exchange information and create meaning? interaction communication talking feedback

Communication

_________ is an example of physiological noise. Loud music coming from your next door neighbor's house Hunger Bias against the speaker Political disagreement

Hunger

You're in the rotunda of your state capitol and your long-time boyfriend finally accepts your proposal of marriage. You embrace. In which distance zone do you two find yourselves? intimate space personal space public space social space romantic space

Intimate space

Sandy has a job interview with a top company in her field. She makes sure to walk into the room confidently, with her head held high. When she sits down for the interview, she makes sure to keep her posture strong and her body still. Which of the following is Sandy paying special attention to? proxemics gesticulation kinesics haptics

Kinesics

The ___________ asserts that the language a speaker uses influences the way he or she thinks. Theory of Metaphor Ambiguity Hypothesis Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis Birdwell's Thesis McLuhan's Quandary

Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis

Farah is nervous about her introductory speech but doesn't want anyone to notice. She carefully moderates her rate, keeping it at an even pace. She avoids vocal fillers, and she makes sure to use inflection. Farah is controlling her _____ to give the impression to her audience that she is not nervous. inflection paralanguage kinesics articulation

Paralanguage

In describing the operation of symbolic interaction, Mead argued that there are two important "others" to whom we look to better understand ourselves. Influential people in the different situations in which we find ourselves are our _________. looking glass self significant other generalized other wished-for self

Significant other

This type of model views the success of the communication effort as primarily within the sender's control. an audience dominated a source-dominated a feedback dominated a decoder-dominated a feedback-free

Source Dominated

_________ is the idea that good science produces more questions than it answers. Knowledge is power Good theory is good science The specification of ignorance The unknown known McLuhan's Quandary

The specification of ignorance

What is ultimately the function of language? To express emotion. To make meaning. To be able to engage in social interactions. To inform others. To rule others.

To make meaning

When you put your idea in the form of language or a gesture that the receiver can understand, you are ____________ the message. decoding channeling encoding interpreting

encoding

Paige is very excited about her first date with Vince, someone she met online. They've been talking on the phone every day for a week, and Paige is sure she and Vince will hit it off in person. When they meet, they hug hello, and Paige notices that Vince wears the same cologne her ex-boyfriend used to wear. Although Vince is charming and funny, Paige can't seem to enjoy herself because she is continually reminded of her ex. Paige's memory is influencing her communication with Vince because of haptics proxemics kinesics environmental

environmental

________ is the public self-image that every member of a culture wants to claim for her or himself. Face Dignity Wellness Personality Self-esteem

face

When Liz asks her father if he minds her borrowing the car, she notices he frowns and shakes his head. What is Liz observing in her father? context noise feedback encoding

feedback

Your instructor calls you by name before class and asks you to see her when the session is over. She says she need to talk to you about..., well, you really don't remember what she said because you heard nothing after "Please see me..." "Please see me...." were _________, hot-button words that carry so much emotion that they cloud reason and impact listening behavior. interrupters green-flag words red-flag words deflectors shot across the bow words

green-flag words

What is the most primitive form of communication? kinesics eye smell haptics artifactual

haptics

Your roommate just got his dream job at an accounting firm in Memphis. You want to let him know how happy you are for him, so you shake his hand and offer him congratulations with an additional pat on the back. You are employing which form of nonverbal communication to complement your message? silence haptics proxemics oculesics

haptics

You think you're the funniest person you know, yet no one ever gets your jokes. You eventually realize that you are not that funny. This is symbolic interaction's _______ in operation. power of framing many selves mind, self, and society looking glass self ego deflation

looking glass self

Communication research employs___________ (inquiry relying on the collection and analysis of numerical data) and___________ (inquiry relying on the collection and analysis of symbolic data such as language and other cultural products). qualitative research/quantitative research quantitative research/qualitative research experimental/survey survey/experimental humanistic/democratic

quantitative research/qualitative research

Which of the following is NOT an example of paralanguage? words inflection accent pitch

words