Misunderstandings
Gender & Language
Listening
Nonverbal aspects of space, time, and place
Nonverbal Communication
100

Language with more than one likely interpretation

What are equivocal words?
100

A collection of symbols governed by rules and used to convey messages between individuals

What is Language?

100

Assuming that the speaker’s intention is hostile or critical.

What is defensive listening?

100

The study of the way individuals use space

What is proxemics?

100

Deliberate nonverbal behaviors that have precise meanings known to members of a cultural group. 

What are Emblems?

200

Specialized vocabulary used as a kind of shorthand by people with common backgrounds and experience

What is jargon?

200

A statement that cannot be proved or disproved.

What is an Opinion Statement?

200

Pretending to listen while actually thinking about something else.

What is pseudolistening?

200

True or False: The USA is a Monochronic Culture 

What is True?

200

The study of touch.

What is Haptics?

300

True or False: The phrase “It’s really unusual” is an example of equivocation

What is True? (because equivocation is a deliberate vague statement that can be interpreted in more than one way)

300

Strategies used by communicators to influence the way others view them.

What is Identity Management?
300

The HURIER model is a six-step process used as a framework to build listening skills, where the I stands for ______.

What is interpreting?

300

Natural lighting has been shown to improve productivity in a shared work

What is Environment? 
300

The involvement of manipulating or fiddling with things; for example fidgeting with clothing, clasping and unclasping hands, playing with a pen or paper clip while speaking.

What are manipulators?

400

The word restroom is an example of a _____ because it can be used in place of the word toilet.

What is euphemism?
400

A socially constructed set of expectations about what it means to be "masculine", "feminine", or another identity.

What is Gender?

400

Getting directions to an unfamiliar place calls for this type of listening

What is task-oriented listening?

400

If your sibling enters your bedroom without knocking, you may feel annoyed that they entered your personal ____ without permission

What is Territory? 

400

Stammering, i.e the use of um, uh, or er are all examples of _______.

What is paralanguage?

500

True or False: Misunderstandings are not a fact of life and can be avoided.

What is False?
500

A conceptualization of gender identity that recognizes gender as a multidimensional collection of qualities.

What is a Gender Matrix?

500

Silencing or turning off your cell phone during your conversation can help prevent _____ while having a conversation.

What is message overload?

500

Lisa invites her brazilian-american friend out to eat brunch at 12pm; however, her friend only shows up at 12:15. This may be because her friend comes from a ____ culture

What is Polychronic? 

500

True or false affect blends are nonverbal cues that result from the way people use their faces and bodies.

False; affect blends are combinations of two or more simultaneous expressions that show different emotions, such as fearful surprise or angry disgust.