Human Communication

Question 1

What is Intrapersonal Communication?

Answer 1

Communicating with oneself

Question 2

What is dyadic/intrapersonal communication?

Answer 2

Two people communicating

Question 3

What is small group communication?

Answer 3

Everyone communicating and participating with all members

Question 4

What is organisational communication?

Answer 4

Large groups that communicate and work to achieve goals

Question 5

What is public communication?

Answer 5

When or more people speak, while others listen.

Question 6

What is mass communication?

Answer 6

Messages spread to large audiences, can be electronic or print media.

Question 7

What is message richness?

Answer 7

Nonverbal cues that add clarity to verbal messages.

Question 8

What is synchronicity?

Answer 8

Communicating in person or by phone that occurs in real time.

Question 9

What is kinesics?

Answer 9

The use of posture and gesture

Question 10

What is paralanguage?

Answer 10

The use of your voice

Question 11

What is proxemics?

Answer 11

Using space and distance.

Question 12

Why is chronemics?

Answer 12

Use of time.

Question 13

What are some challenging to listening?

Answer 13

Physiological, environmental, psychological, message overload, cultural and media influences.

Question 14

What is the Lombard effect?

Answer 14

It’s when the speaker involuntarily adjusts vocal efforts when talking in presence of noise. This can look like: increased vocal loudness, increase in pitch, changes to vowels.

Question 15

What is clear speech?

Answer 15

Is the speaking style that is used when talking in a challenging communicative situations. Can look like slowing down rate of speech, increase in volume and pronunciation.

Question 16

What is lexically driven speech?

Question 17

What is lexically driven speech?

Answer 17

Using the knowledge of language rules and structure to help facilitate understanding in adverse conditions. E.g. syntax and plausibility of word combination.

Question 18

What is sublexically driven speech?

Answer 18

When listening scan the speech stream for cues as to when one word ends and another begins.

Question 19

What are the functions of communication?

Answer 19

Function, social, physical, practical, identity

Question 20

What are the extralinguistic modes of communication?

Answer 20

Paralinguistic, metalinguistic and nonlinguistic

Question 21

What are the linguistic modes of communication?

Answer 21

Speaking and listening, writing and reading and signing.

Question 22

What are paralinguistic cues?

Answer 22

Using the intonation, stress, speaking rate, pauses, pitch to emphasis meaning in speech.

Question 23

What is Metalinguistics?

Answer 23

The ability to think and discuss language separate from its context or out of context. E.g. using context to make sense of information that you have been given.

Question 24

What are non linguistic cues?

Answer 24

Using gesture, body posture, expressions, proxemics to emphasis communication

Question 25

What is phonology, morphology, and syntax?

Answer 25

It holds the form of the communication. E.g. word order, word endings, speech.

Question 26

What is semantics?

Answer 26

It holds the content of the communication. E.g. word meanings, the ways in which word meanings link together, sequencing.

Question 27

What is pragmatics?

Answer 27

It is the use of communication. E.g. conversation, social rules, matching language to situation.

Question 28

What is the speed accuracy trade-off?

Answer 28

It is when you trade off speed to gain more accuracy while speaking or vice versa E.g. slowing your speech down when communicating with someone whose first language isn’t English.

Question 29

What is the pinna?

Answer 29

The outer ear

Question 30

What is the ear canal?

Answer 30

The canal between the outer and inner ear

Question 31

What is the tympanic membrane?

Answer 31

The eardrum

Question 32

What is the middle ear?

Answer 32

It is an air filled, membrane lined space between the outer and inner ear. This contains three smalls bones called the malleus, the incus and the stapes.

Question 33

What is the function of the middle ear?

Answer 33

To transfer sound vibrations from your eardrum to your inner ear.

Question 34

What is the function of the Eustachian tube?

Answer 34

The primary function is to equalise the air pressure between the atmosphere and the middle ear.

Question 35

What is found in the outer ear?

Answer 35

The Tragus, ear canal

Question 36

What is found in the middle ear?

Answer 36

The tympanic membrane (ear drum), the auditory ossicles (malleus, incus, stapes

Question 37

What is in the inner ear?

Answer 37

Cochlea, vestibular nerve

Question 38

What is a common infection of the outer ear?

Answer 38

Swimmers ear, the infection of the ear canal

Question 39

What is a common infection of the middle ear?

Answer 39

Otitis media, fluid build up in the middle ear. Eustachian tube is closed and fluid can’t escape, is pushing outwards on ear drums.

Question 40

What is the McGurk effect?

Answer 40

It is an auditory-visual illusion that illustrates how perceives merge information for speech sounds across the senses. When an auditory component is paired with the visual component of another sound, leading to a perception of a third sounds.

Question 41

What is priming?

Answer 41

It’s the exposure to one stimulus that influences how a person responds to a related stimulus. E.g. Yanny and laurel

Question 42

What are the four components of speech production?

Answer 42

Respiration, phonation, resonance, articulation

Question 43

What is respiration is speech?

Answer 43

The breath support required for our speech

Question 44

What is phonation?

Answer 44

It is the vibration of the vocal folds to create sound.

Question 45

What is resonance?

Answer 45

It’s when the air travels through the oral or nasal cavities

Question 46

What is articulation?

Answer 46

How we shape the sounds with our lips, teeth, tongue and palate.