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The relationship between symbols, objects, people, and concepts and the meaning that words
have for people, either because of their definitions or their placement in a sentence, defines
which of the following terms?
a. pragmatics
b. labeling
c. semantics
d. abstraction - ✔ ✔ semantics
"The process of intentionally or unintentionally signaling meaning through behavior other
than words" defines which of the following terms?
a. verbal communication
b. nonverbal communication
c. body language
d. encoding - ✔ ✔ nonverbal communication
Which of the following is an example of a nonverbal behavior?
a. You write a note asking your roommate to pick up your mail while you're out of town.
b. You use American Sign Language to fingerspell your name when you meet a new deaf
colleague at work.
c. You wave an old friend over to sit with you at lunch in the cafeteria.
,d. You type a quick e-mail asking your professor if she has any feedback on the outline for your
upcoming speech. - ✔ ✔ You wave an old friend over to sit with you at lunch in the cafeteria.
__________ occurs when one set of a person's behaviors say one thing and another set of his
or her behaviors says something different.
a. feedback
b. channel discrepancy
c. distortion
d. deception - ✔ ✔ channel discrepancy
Which of the following does not represent the way nonverbal behaviors can clarify the meaning
of a verbal message by reinforcing it?
a. repeating
b. complementing
c. substituting
d. accenting - ✔ ✔ substituting
Your friend asks you how you're doing, and you say, "OK," while holding up your hand in the
gesture Americans understand to be the OK sign. What reinforcing behavior are you using to
clarify your message?
a. repeating
b. complementing
c. accenting
d. substituting - ✔ ✔ repeating
, Your friend asks you how you're doing, and you say, "OK," while holding up your hand in the
gesture Americans understand to be the OK sign. What reinforcing behavior are you using to
clarify your message?
a. accenting
b. substituting
c. contradicting
d. repeating - ✔ ✔ substituting
Nonverbal behaviors that coordinate verbal interaction by helping us to navigate the back-and-
forth of communication in a constructive, appropriate manner are serving which function?
a. accenting
b. repeating
c. regulating
d. substituting - ✔ ✔ regulating
What is commonly referred to as "body language" is actually the observation of __________, or
the way our body movements and gestures send messages.
a. kinesics
b. proxemics
c. oculesics
d. chronemics - ✔ ✔ kinesics
During a church service, you silently hold one finger up to your mouth to communicate
nonverbally to your little brother that he must be quiet. What category of body movement
are you using to communicate your message?
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