Chapter 5
When you are introduced to new classmates, you use __________, nonverbal actions that signal warmth, communicate availability, decrease distance, and promote involvement.
a. haptics
b. affiliation
c. immediacy behaviors
d. regulating behaviors
c. immediacy behaviors
After several dates with Daniel, Amy began to reveal more information about herself—her favorite foods, her opinions on current issues, her problems with family. Amy is demonstrating _________.
a. interdependence
b. predictability
c. committment
d. self-disclosure
d. self-disclosure
Pat says, "I'm really excited—I've been selected to read a paper at the convention." Bert could seek to test his understanding by saying, "Oh, so you're going to talk about your research at NCA?" This is an example of a(n)
a. paraphrase
b. framing response
c. indexing statement
d. mnemonic
a. paraphrase
Social conversations are typically uttered in the spur of the moment without lengthy preplanning; therefore, we say such conversations are
a. casual
b. impromptu
c. extemporaneous
d. introductory
c. extemporaneous
When people act in ways that are different from what we anticipate, we are experiencing a(n) ________.
a. cultural difference
b. expectancy violation
c. perception check
d. contradictory emblem
b. expectancy violation
The desire to be open with a partner yet still be closed at times is an example of a(n)
a. connection
b. relational dialectic
c. self-talk
d. autonomous disclosure
b. relational dialectic
The tendency to remember the last thing we heard is the
a. mnemonic effect
b. primacy effect
c. recency effect
d. filtering effect
c. recency effect
Kylie is having a cell phone conversation with a friend. She does not realize it but she is on speaker phone and several others can hear the conversation. What aspect of digital conversations did Kylie fail to realize?
a. awareness of audience
b. social presence
c. abruptness of disengagement
d. multiplicity of conversations
a. awareness of audience