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Chapter 1: Interpersonal Communication: A First Look
Multiple Choice
1. What fraction of young adults sends more than 100 texts each day?
A) 1/2
B) 1/3
C) 1/10
D) None
Ans: B
2. The ability to communicate effectively is known as
A) Interpersonal communication
B) Intrapersonal communication
C) Interpersonal competence
D) Having a conversation
Ans: C
3. Which of the following is an example of verbal communication?
A) Phone conversation
B) Nodding your head
C) Responding to a text
D) Slumping in your chair
Ans: A
4. If the color of a room is not appealing to you, which of the elements of communication would
be affected the most?
A) Message
B) People
C) Context
D) Noise
Ans: D
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5. This kind of feedback enhances behavior in progress and serves as a reinforcing function,
causing us to continue our behavior.
A) Negative
B) Positive
C) Internal
D) External
Ans: B
6. When we carefully craft a response designed to serve a particular purpose, we are offering
what type of feedback?
A) Low monitored
B) Immediate
C) Delayed
D) High monitored
Ans: D
7. Interpersonal communication serves many functions in our lives; which is NOT a function it
typically serves?
A) Psychological
B) Social
C) Influence
D) Location
Ans: D
8. Interpersonal communication is helpful to us because it does which of the following?
A) Fulfills our need to be friended and to friend
B) Alleviates our feelings of isolation
C) Fulfills our desire to feel needed, loved, wanted, and capable
D) All of the above
Ans: D
9. Identifiable behavioral patterns and motivations explain which of the features of interpersonal
contact?
A) Key characteristics
B) Core communication principles
C) Axioms
D) Sense of belonging
Ans: B
10. If we agree that communication is about more than the participants involved, which
characteristic of interpersonal communication would we use to explain that idea?
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A) Interpersonal communication is unrepeatable
B) Interpersonal communication is learned
C) Interpersonal communication is characterized by wholeness and nonsummativity
D) Interpersonal communication is irreversible
Ans: C
11. Every contact changes us in some way, and every experience, no matter how hard we may
try, can never be recaptured in exactly the same way. This describes which characteristic of
interpersonal communication?
A) Interpersonal communication is unrepeatable
B) Interpersonal communication is learned
C) Interpersonal communication is irreversible
D) Interpersonal communication is a dynamic process
Ans: A
12. Interpersonal communication involves understanding patterns of behavior, ___________
what others will do, and ______________ _______ for their actions as well as our own.
A) Predicting, providing reasons
B) Knowing, providing reasons
C) Understanding, predicting outcomes
D) None of the above
Ans: A
13. Although we can usually control what we say or write, it is often more difficult to control
the _____________ _________ we emit.
A) Verbal cues
B) Measured outcomes
C) Nonverbal cues
D) Social interaction
Ans: C
14. Watzlawick, Beavin, and Jackson categorize relationships as either _____________ or
____________.
A) Good, bad
B) Complementary, supplementary
C) Complementary, symmetrical
D) Low intensity, high intensity
E) None of the above
Ans: C
15. Whenever cultural variability influences the nature and outcomes of interpersonal
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