Key Definitions
___________ refers to interactions among three or more people who are connected through a common purpose, mutual influence, and a shared identity.
a. Group Communication
b. Interpersonal Communication
c. Public Communication
d. Intrapersonal Communication
a. Group Communication
When having a conversation with your mom while completing an assignment, you behave as if you are listening but actually not by giving timely responses like “Uh huh”, “Yup”, and “Oh, really”. You are engaging in…
a. Aggressive Listening
b. Narcissistic Listening
c. Distorted Listening
d. Pseudolistening
d. Pseudolistening
Before we can engage in other steps in the listening process, we must take in _______through our senses. In any given communication encounter, it is likely that we will return to the receiving stage many times as we process incoming feedback and new messages
a. Stimuli
b. Definitions
c. Codes
d. Schemata
a. Stimuli
The underlying values that create a sense of togetherness between group members (interests, principles, ethics) is known as…
a. Shared Identity
b. Synergy
c. Group Socialization
d. Task Cohesion
a. Shared Identity
I felt shy to tell my parents that I was fired from my job, so I told them I was “let go.” This is an example of:
a. Jargon
b. Slang
c. Metaphor
d. Euphemism
d. Euphemism
This entails listening with the goal of analyzing or evaluating a message based on information presented verbally and information that can be inferred from context.
a. Critical Listening
b. Empathetic Listening
c. Informational Listening
d. Attentive Listening
a. Critical Listening
Your mom is watching a cooking channel on TV when she notices the chef make a mistake in the recipe. She yells at the TV “that’s not how you do it!” This is an example of which communication model:
a. The Transaction Model
b. The Directive Model
c. The Transmission Model
d. The Interaction Model
c. The Transmission Model
The ___________ is a one-sentence statement that includes the objective you want to accomplish in your speech; this statement is not explicitly stated in your speech.
a. Thesis Statement
b. Specific Purpose
c. General Purpose
d. None of the above.
b. Specific Purpose
Alex wants to give a speech on the life of Kobe Bryant, beginning with his birth and ending with his death in 2020. Which organizational pattern would be best for Alex’s speech?
a. Spatial Pattern
b. Cause-Effect Pattern
c. Topical Pattern
d. Chronological Pattern
d. Chronological Pattern
Short-term memory is a mental storage capability that can retain stimuli for…
a. 10-20 seconds
b. 5-10 minutes
c. 30 seconds to 2 minutes
d. 20-60 seconds
d. 20-60 seconds
__________ are verbal and nonverbal behaviors that lessen the real or perceived physical and psychological distance between communicators and include things like smiling, nodding, making eye contact, and occasionally engaging in social, polite, or professional touch.
a. Immediacy Behaviors
b. Nonverbal Congruence
c. Ambiguous Communication
d. Artifacts
a. Immediacy Behaviors
When you give your informative speech, you earn an A and attribute this to your hard work and great speaking skills. When you give your persuasive speech, you earn a C- and attribute this to the other people in your group having dumb ideas. This is an example of:
a. Looking Glass Self
b. Fundamental Attribution Error
c. Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
d. Self-Serving Bias
d. Self-Serving Bias
The process by which we become less anxious about something the more we are exposed to it is known as...
a. Cognitive Restructuring
b. Systematic Practice
c. Systematic Desensitization
d. Positive Visualization
c. Systematic Desensitization
A persuasive speech will fall primarily into one of three categories. Those categories are propositions of…
a. Dilemma, Need, Solution
b. Ethos, Pathos, Logos
c. Fact, Value, Policy
d. Claim, Evidence, Warrant
c. Fact, Value, Policy
Jacob tends to shake his leg when he is nervous or anxious about something. Which type of gesture does this embody?
a. Emblems
b. Adaptors
c. Illustrators
d. Haptics
b. Adaptors
________ are like databases of stored, related information that we use to interpret new experiences.
a. Attributions
b. Schemata
c. Interpretive Frames
d. Neologisms
b. Schemata
With regard to communication and perception, intent does not equal __________.
a. Affect
b. Impact
c. Salience
d. Connotative Meaning
b. Impact
The subcategory of ethos that refers to the degree the audience perceives the speaker to be outgoing and animated is known as…
a. Dynamism
b. Competence
c. Trustworthiness
d. Likability
a. Dynamism
In his speech on Shenandoah National Park, George tells the audience to close their eyes and imagine a serene forest full of wildlife. George then details the beauty of the national park, creating mental images of the park for the audience. George’s informative speech:
a. Informed through demonstration
b. Informed though explanation
c. Informed through definition
d. Informed through description
d. Informed through description
The fallacy that is the result of too few examples being cited to warrant the main claim is known as the…
a. False Causation
b. Hasty Generalization
c. Red Herring
d. False Authority
b. Hasty Generalization
__________ is the system of beliefs and practices that produces a physical and mental standard that is projected as normal for a human being and labels deviations from it abnormal, resulting in unequal treatment and access to resources.
a. Socialism
b. Prejudice
c. Ability Privilege
d. Ableism
d. Ableism
What is the significance of the triangle of meaning?
a. Indicates the relationship among a thought, symbol, and referent
b. Explains the importance of being 100% competent
c. Expands upon all other models of communication
d. Display how we develop meaning objectively
a. Indicates the relationship among a thought, symbol, and referent
The step that incorporates positive results of action and negative consequences of inaction as a way to support the relationship between the need and the proposal to satisfy the need is which step of Monroe’s Motivated Sequence?
a. Action
b. Attention
c. Visualization
d. Satisfaction
c. Visualization
What are the five stages of small group development in order?
a. Forming, Norming, Storming, Performing, Adjourning
b. Forming, Performing, Storming, Norming, Adjourning
c. Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, Adjourning
d. Forming, Norming, Performing, Storming, Adjourning
c. Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, Adjourning
Language that captures the attention and imagination of the audience is known as…
a. Affective Language
b. Figurative Language
c. Polarizing Language
d. Evocative Language
d. Evocative Language