Chapter 2
Most interactions include what 6 components
a. Speaker, talker, listener, watcher, observer, taker
b. Sender, retriever, message, channel, feedback, and noise.
c. There are six unnamed levels
d. Sender, receiver, message, channel, feedback, and noise
d. Sender, receiver, message, channel, feedback, and noise
The characteristics of a relationship are...
a. Duration, contact frequency, sharing, support, interaction variability, and goals
b. Contact frequency, attraction, physical proximity, similarities, and sharing
c. Positivity, openness, assurances, networking, sharing tasks, conflict management, and advice
a. Duration, contact frequency, sharing, support, interaction variability, and goals
What is it called when a group of adults take the role of parental figure and child figure?
a. Common culture
b. Family system
c. established boundaries
d. Family patterns
b. Family system
You and your coworkers go out for drinks after work to celebrate finishing a big project. The next morning one of your coworkers gives you a wink as you pass by them. What could this wink mean?
a. That they had a fun time last night
b. It was a flirtatious wink
c. A funny wink to stand for something funny from the previous night
d. All the above
d. All the above; nonverbal communication can often be misunderstood and is not always the best form of communication.
True or false
There are no set guidelines or principles when it comes to ethical communication.
False
Relationship Maintenance is…
a. Experimenting, intensifying, initiating, integrating, and bonding
b. Positivity, openness, assurances, networking, sharing tasks, conflict management, and advice
c. Contact frequency, differentiating, avoiding, and integrating
b. Positivity, openness, assurances, networking, sharing tasks, conflict management, and advice
True or False; The definition of a sibling hostile relationship is a sibling relationship marked by hostility and warmth.
False
“______ show feelings and emotions.”
a. Emblems
b. Illustrators
c. Affect Displays
d. Regulators
c. Affect Displays
“Anything that interferes with a message” is called
a. Noise
b. Feedback
c. Messages
d. Receiver
a. Noise
true or false; People will consider another alternative when forming relationships which is known as “comparison level”
false
What is one of the two main family communication patterns?
a. Conversation Orientation
b. Socio-Orientation
c. Patterns/regularities
d. Complex relationships
a. Conversation Orientation
True or False: S.A.D.F.I.S.H is an acronym for the emotions surprise, anger, disgust, fear, interest, sadness, and happiness.
True
“The process of acquiring, interpreting, and organizing information that comes in through your five sense.”
a. Interpreting
b. Involvement
c. Perception
d. Attending
c. Perception
“How do individuals deal with struggles in their relationship”
What is Dialectical Tension
Which characteristic of family systems involves being able to see behavior and outcomes within the context of the system?
a. Interactive complexity
b. Interdependence
c. Wholeness
d. Equifinality
c. Wholeness
What is the appropriate social distance for acquaintances?
a. 4-12 feet
b. 18 inches-4 feet
c. 12-25 feet
d. 0-18 inches
a. 4-12 feet
True or false
the Shannon-Weaver Model states that communication occurs linearly.
TRUE
“When first dating, people expect their dating partner to initially be nervous, impolite, and unsocial. True or False?
False
What is the final stage of the family life cycle?
a. Empty nest one
b. Full nest three
c. Solitary survivor
d. Empty Nest two
c. Solitary survivor
Intensity is referred to as what?
a. The rate at which one speaks
b. “Quality given to a sound by its overtones”
c. How loudly or softly an individual speaks
d. extra-linguistic features involved in speaking
c. How loudly or softly an individual speaks