Exam 2

Question 1

What are the 7 parts to NVC?

Answer 1

1. Any comm other than the spoken or written word.
2. NVC is anything that stimulates meaning in the mind.
3. It exists besides language.
4. Transcends or goes above language
5. Intentional or unintentional
6. It channels most of our emotional messages
7. We learn to make distinction between nonverbal behavior and NVC.

Question 2

What is the definition of NVC?

Answer 2

The process of one person stimulating meaning in the mind of another person or persons by means of nonverbal messages.

Question 3

What does SCADFISH stand for?

Answer 3

S- Sadness
C- Contempt 
A- Anger
D- Disgust 
F- Fear
I - Intrest 
S- Suprise 
H -Happiness

Question 4

What are the 8 categories of NVC?

Answer 4

1. Physical Appearance
2. Gesture and Movement (Kenesiscs)
3. Face and Eye (Oculus)
4. Vocals and Paralanguage
5. Space and Territory (Proxmetics)
6. Touch (Haptics)
7. Environment
8. Time (Chronemics)

Question 5

What are the 5 categories to gesture?

Answer 5

1. Emblems
2. Illustrators
3. Regulators
4. Affect Displays
5. Adaptors

Question 6

Space vs. Territory

Answer 6

Territory- Refers to how people use space to communicate ownership or occupancy of an area.

Space- Regards to the space of a person. “A bubble”. A form of the area a person does not want others to invade.

Question 7

The 6 categories of territory?

Answer 7

1. Primary Territory
2. Secondary Territory
3. Public Territory
4. Home Territory
5. Interactional Territory
6. Body Territory

Question 8

Encroachment

Answer 8

Encroaching on other people’s space is a sign that a person wishes to increase intimacy or to intimidate

Question 9

Hall’s Interpersonal Distance

Answer 9

Suggests that interpersonal relationship in which we are involved affects the distance we place between ourselves and others.

Question 10

Crowding

Answer 10

is a person’s perception of spatial restrictions

Question 11

Density

Answer 11

Refers to number of people in a space.

Question 12

Impact of High Density

Answer 12

High Density is a large number of people in a given area.

• Spending less time with each other
• Disregarding low-priority interactions
• Shifting the responsibility for some transactions to others
• Blocking others out

Question 13

Fixed-Featured Space

Answer 13

A space that is fixed or immobile.

EX: Homes, Schools, layouts of towns or cities

Question 14

Semi Fixed-Feature Space

Answer 14

Includes the moveable objects in our environment

EX: Furniture, accessories, and accents

Question 15

The 6 perceptual characteristics of environment

Answer 15

1. Formality
2. Warmth
3. Privacy
4. Familiarity
5. Constraint
6. Distance

Question 16

What are pheromones?

Answer 16

A chemical excretion that is unique to every animal in the Aminal Kingdom.

Question 17

What is Smell Memory?

Answer 17

Smells that provoke memories from the past

Question 18

What is Smell Blindness?

Answer 18

An individual who cannot receive or process smells.

Question 19

What is Smell Adaptation?

Answer 19

Going from one scent to another

Question 20

What is marasmus?

Answer 20

The “waisting away disease”

EX: babies and toddlers who are taken care of with clean environments, but they are deprived of touch. This made the children die or stunt growth.

Question 21

What is skin hunger

Answer 21

You physical being absolutely the need to have human contact,

Question 22

The 5 categories of touch

Answer 22

1. Proffesional-function: NO HANDSHAKE. Impersonal, made to finish a task or service.
2. Socail/ Polite: Handshake! Is tied to cultural norms
3. Friendship- warmth: Let’s another person know you are there for them. Acknowledging.
4. Love-Intimacy: Kissing. Showing love.
5. Sexual Arousal: Touch only for sexual arousal.

Question 23

What is the earliest form of communication?

Answer 23

Touch communication!

It is essential for human development

Question 24

What is the difference between P-Time and M-Time?

Answer 24

P-Time: Polychronic time.
-You do may things @ one time.

M-Time: Monochronic time.
- You do one thing @ a time.

Question 25

What does SAD stand for?

What does it mean?

Answer 25

S- seasonal
A- affect
D- disorder.

-The lack of Vitamin D.
(This is biological and physical)

Question 26

Physical Time Orientation

Answer 26

How you individually view and treat time.

“We view our time as more important than others time”

Question 27

Biological Time Orientation

Answer 27

How time affects you physically.
- What our body does over time from stress and anxiety.
(EX: Full moon/ Weather)

Question 28

Cultural Time Orientation

Answer 28

How time is treated in different cultures.

• America: It is important to not to be late.

Question 29

Time: Owl ?

Answer 29

A person who functions better in the late afternoon through the night time.

Question 30

Time: Sparrow ?

Answer 30

A person who functions early in the morning to mid afternoon

Question 31

Time: Sprowl?

Answer 31

Someone who functions in both night and day hours.

Question 32

Interactional Territories

Answer 32

Are special places that develop wherever people congregate for social exchange.

Question 33

Density

Answer 33

Refers to number of people in a space.

Question 34

Offensive displays

Answer 34

Are assertive or aggressive postures, stances, stares, and gestures

Question 35

Linguistic Collusion

Answer 35

When a group of people defending their territory, verbally and nonverbally makes the intruder feel like an outsider.

Question 36

Chromodynamics

Answer 36

The study of the physiological effects caused by observing color

Question 37

Olfactics

Answer 37

The study of scents and smells and how people perceive and process info about them

Question 38

Gentling behavior

Answer 38

The stroking and touching of animal newborns

Question 39

Chronemics

Answer 39

The study of how a culture perceives, uses, studies, structures, interprets and reacts to messages of time

Question 40

Technical Time

Answer 40

refers to precise scientific measurements of time.