CMST 1061 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS
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CMST 1061 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS
The active process of selecting, organizing and interpreting people, objects, events, situations, and activities is known as ______ - Answer- perception
Which of the following is a prototype? - Answer- the person who is the best example of a...
The active process of selecting, organizing and interpreting people, objects, events, situations, and
activities is known as ______ - Answer- perception
Which of the following is a prototype? - Answer- the person who is the best example of a co-worker to
you
Socially agreed-upon labels that we use to identify and arouse conventionalized meanings stored in
schemata within our memory system are called: - Answer- symbols
In the meaning triangle, the symbol is the internal configuration aroused by either apprehending the
referent itself with our senses or by receiving a cue from another person. - Answer- False
All language is symbolic, yet not all symbols are linguistic. - Answer- True
The verbal symbols we select to use are not intrinsically connected to what they represent. This is
known as _____ - Answer- arbitrariness
Words that slant perceptions are called _______ - Answer- loaded language
Joaquin came to the United States from Mexico three months ago and he is still having trouble
understanding Americans' tendency to rush all the time. He is also surprised when his teachers are
irritated if he joins class a while after class has started. Joaquin's confusion about American pace of life is
based on which aspect of nonverbal behavior? - Answer- chronemics
People with high status and/or power tend to touch others and invade others' space more than do
people with less power and/or status. - Answer- True
, Rachel doesn't want to be interrupted while she's speaking so she avoids looking at others until she has
said all she wants to say. Then she looks at the person who wants to respond. Rachel has used nonverbal
behavior to _________ - Answer- regulate interaction
The study of space and how people use it is known as ______ - Answer- proxemics
Which of the following is NOT true about nonverbal communication? - Answer- it does not vary over
time
As soon as the news program begins an interview with the President, Dolores quits paying attention and
she mumbles to herself, "I already know everything he has to say and I don't want to hear it again."
Dolores' ability to listen is being hindered by _________ - Answer- prejudgement
Bao is a teacher. When she is talking to students one on one, she gently encourages them to express
themselves by saying, "Tell me more," "go on," "I understand." These are examples of _________ -
Answer- minimal encouragers
Monopolizing is hogging the stage by continuously focusing the conversation on ourselves instead of the
person who is talking. - Answer- True
Putting together all that we have selected and organized in order to make sense of communication, is
known as ________ - Answer- interpretation
When Jing says to Juana that she is having a difficult time in her chemistry class, Juana's first response is
to launch into an extended description of the difficulties she had in her own physics class. By doing so,
Juana is engaging in a faulty listening practice known as _________ - Answer- monopolizing
A form of certainty language that assumes our culture and its norms are the only right ones is - Answer-
ethnocentrism
According to the supplementary reading "the meaning of meaning", meaning is our internal response to
either the reality (objects, events, or situations experienced through our senses) or the symbols used by
a language community to label reality. For example, the meaning of dog for a particular person or a
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