Ch. 1

Question 1

What is the process by which individuals use symbols and behaviors to exchange information?

Answer 1

Communication

Question 2

What perspective on communication examines how communication behaviors work to accomplish our goals in personal, group, organizational, or public situations

Answer 2

Functional Perspective

Question 3

The best definition of interdependence from the list below is…

Answer 3

The nature by which what we do affects and what others do affects us

Question 4

While on a first date, you notice your date leaning toward you, meeting your gaze, smiling when you make eye contact, and laughing at your jokes. You infer from your date’s behavior that they like you. The best scenario best represents the use of communication to express…

Answer 4

Affiliation

Question 5

The ability of one person, group, or organization to influence others, and the manner in which their relationships are conducted is called

Answer 5

Control

Question 6

The word “dog” is a ____________, which arbitrarily refers to the canine companion that sleeps at the foot of your bed.

Answer 6

Symbol

Question 7

After looking in your book bag and realizing you forgot to grab a pen, you lean over to one of your classmates and you say, “Do you have a pen I can barrow for class today?” You have just
engaged in what mental process as you constructed your message?

Answer 7

Encoding

Question 8

The process of receiving a message by interpreting and assigning meaning is referred to as…

Answer 8

Decoding

Question 9

The shared beliefs, values, and practices of a group of people is their…

Answer 9

Culture

Question 10

The Amish, African Americans, Catholics and Goths are all groups we might refer to as members of a/an…

Answer 10

Co-cultures

Question 11

That communication involves two or more people acting in both sender and receiver roles, and that their messages are dependent on and influenced by those of their partner, means that communication is…

Answer 11

Transactional

Question 12

___________ refers to the study of morals, specifically the moral choices individuals make in their relationships with others.

Answer 12

Ethics

Question 13

In which model of communication do we see a sender who originates a message, and sends it through a channel to a receiver, without any kind of feedback taken into consideration?

Answer 13

Linear Model

Question 14

In the interaction model of communication, we refer to the receiver’s response as…

Answer 14

Feedback

Question 15

__________ are the thoughts a communicator has about himself or herself and others.

Answer 15

Cognitions

Question 16

We sometimes express emotions to help fulfill our practical needs.

Answer 16

True

Question 17

While communication is helpful, we do not need to be able to communicate to get the things we want and need in life.

Answer 17

False

Question 18

Humans are able to communicate without the use of symbols.

Answer 18

False

Question 19

The meanings of symbols are arbitrary and are negotiated between people.

Answer 19

True

Question 20

An individual’s ethics re influenced by his or her personal morals and values as well as by broader cultural notions of what is right or wrong morally.

Answer 20

True