Chapter 11

Question 1

prosody

Answer 1

word used to describe all the variations in the voice that accompany speech and help to convey its meaning

Question 2

Mehrabian’s formula for perceived attitude

Answer 2

.07verbal + .38vocal + .55facial

Question 3

paralanguage

Answer 3

physical mechanisms for producing nonverbal vocal qualities and sounds = complex

intonation, pitch and speed of speaking, hesitation noises, gesture, and facial expression.

Question 4

vocal characteristics and perception

Answer 4

findings hard to show that listener’s cannot always detect personality

Question 5

speech rate/normal speech rate

Answer 5

125-190 words per minute

Question 6

spectrogram/voiceprints

Answer 6

visual picture of a person’s speech

plot of vocal energy in different frequency bands a function of time

Question 7

spectrogram/voiceprints

Answer 7

visual picture of a person’s speech

plot of vocal energy in different frequency bands a function of time

Question 8

tag questions

Answer 8

it’s a nice day, ISNT IT?

Question 9

hedges and qualifiers

Answer 9

“sort of, maybe”

Question 10

disclaimers

Answer 10

“i don’t know, but,”

Question 11

target effect

Answer 11

how we ought to talk to different kinds of people

ex: baby talk:motherse

Question 12

turn yielding

Answer 12

signal that you are finished and giving the floor, “ya know, so, yeah”

Question 13

turn requesting

Answer 13

stutter starts “i , i, i “

Question 14

turn maintaining

Answer 14

exagerated

Question 15

turn denying

Answer 15

reinforcement, pauses, looking away

Question 16

filled pause

Answer 16

filled with some type of intonation such as um or uh

decreases quality, more shown in men

Question 17

unfilled pause

Answer 17

superior, stylistic, greater problem solving, women

Question 18

vocal clues

Answer 18

not how its said but WHAT its said