Communication Verbally MCQ

______ make(s) people feel that you don’t see them, that they are unimportant.

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Correct Answer: Disconfirmation

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______ acknowledge(s) the time frame of your judgments.

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Correct Answer: Indexing

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One example of ______ in language includes the practice of women taking their husband’s surnames after marriage.

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Correct Answer: Sexism

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If we settle on a(n) ______ for someone at one time and then encounter the same person later, we’ll probably fail to realize that the person may have changed over time.

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Correct Answer: Extreme label

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When we communicate, we are doing much more than ______; we’re connecting with some people and indicating to others how different we are from one another.

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Correct Answer: Exchanging words

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The ______ used for a communication transaction has an impact on the meaning and experience of that transaction.

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Correct Answer: Channel

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John and Geroge both speak the same language, and because of this the ______ will affect the meaning.

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Correct Answer: Contextual cues

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In communication research, the ______ involves the setting or situation in which the encounter takes place.

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Correct Answer: Context

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The ease with which a language can express is thought is called _______.

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Correct Answer: Codability

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Sapir and Whorf believed that without a ______ for something, a person has difficulty perceiving that thing or thinking that it’s important.

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Correct Answer: Word

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______ language is one of the most studied in terms of the effects of ethnicity on language.

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Correct Answer: African American

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Those who are incarcerated are an example of a(n) ______.

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Correct Answer: Speech community

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Culture pertains to more than ______.

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Correct Answer: National origin

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The term “persons of color” puts emphasis on the person and their ______.

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Correct Answer: Ethnicity

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The Communication Acconmadation Theory (CAT) says speakers may ______ or make their speech style like the other’s.

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Correct Answer: Converge

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The words or the vocabulary that make up a language is called

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Correct Answer: ● Verbal symbols

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An explanation for differences in women’s and men’s verbal codes based on conceptualizing the two sexes as two separate cultures is called

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Correct Answer: ● Two-culture theory

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The lack of clarity people use intentionally when they do not want others to completely understand their intentions is called

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Correct Answer: ● Strategic ambiguity

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When words conceal change; when we speak and respond to people today the same way we did many years ago is called

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Correct Answer: ● Static evaluation

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Groups who share norms about how to speak; what words to use; and when, where, and why to speak is called

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Correct Answer: ● Speech communities

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A word with a restricted number of possible referents is called

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Correct Answer: ● Specific

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Language that is demeaning to one sex is called

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Correct Answer: ● Sexist language

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The use of one term with a positive connotation and its supposed parallel term with a negative connotation (e.g., master and mistress) in Semantic derogation

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Correct Answer: ● True

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The tendency to respond to words, or labels for things, rather than the things themselves is called

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Correct Answer: ● Reification

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The thing the word represents is called

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Correct Answer: ● Referents

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When people utilize the either/or aspect of the English language and use words that cast topics in extremes in polarization

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Correct Answer: ● True

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Idiomatic communication used for interpersonal contact only which communication?

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Correct Answer: ● Phatic communication

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Acknowledging the viewpoints of those with whom you interact is called

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Correct Answer: ● Perspective taking

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A verbal ritual where each person’s negative comment is matched by the following speaker’s negative comment in

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Correct Answer: ● Negative Contagion

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A theory explaining what happens to people whose experiences are not well represented by the verbal symbols in their language is called

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Correct Answer: ● Muted group theory

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Words—such as chairman, salesman, repairman, mailman, and mankind—that include the word man but are supposed to operate generically to include women as well in

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Correct Answer: ● Man- linked words

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Sometimes called the “weak form” of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, it refers to the notion that while language doesn’t completely determine your thinking, it strongly influences it known as

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Correct Answer: ● Linguistic relativity

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Sometimes called the “strong form” of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, it refers to the notion that without a word in your language for a thing/ idea, you cannot perceive that thing/idea in the linguistic determinism

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Correct Answer: ● True

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Experiences and ideas that aren’t named in a language is called

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Correct Answer: ● Lexical gaps

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Consists of both verbal symbols and grammar; it enables us to engage in meaning making with others is called

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Correct Answer: ● Language

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Acknowledging the time frame of your judgments of others and yourself is known as

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Correct Answer: ● Indexing

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A word or a phrase that has an understood meaning within a culture, but that meaning doesn’t come from exact translation is called

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Correct Answer: ● Idiom

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Refers to the set of rules in a specific language dictating how words should be organized is called

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Correct Answer: ● Grammar

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The rule in English grammar, dating from 1553, requiring the masculine pronoun he to function generically when the subject of the sentence is not known to be a woman or man in generic he

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Correct Answer: ● True

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A word with the fewest restrictions in terms of possible referents is called

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Correct Answer: ● General

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A kind of equivocation using milder or less direct words substituted for other words that are more blunt or negative is called

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Correct Answer: ● Euphemisms

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A type of ambiguity involving choosing your words carefully to give a listener a false impression without actually lying is called

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Correct Answer: ● Equivocation

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Putting our thoughts into meaningful language is known as

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Correct Answer: ● Encoding

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A process described in Communication Accommodation Theory involving speaking in a way that highlights the differences between two people’s speaking styles.

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Correct Answer: ● Diverge

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Occurs when someone feels ignored and disregarded. Disconfirmation makes people feel that you don’t see them—that they are unimportant is called

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Correct Answer: ● Disconfirmation

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Denotative meaning is the literal, conventional meaning that most people in a culture have agreed to be the meaning of a symbol. Denotation is the type of meaning found in a dictionary definition.

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Correct Answer: ● True

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Developing an understanding of the speaker’s meaning based on hearing language is called

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Correct Answer: ● Decoding

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A process described in Communication Accommodation Theory involving making one’s speech style similar to another’s is called

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Correct Answer: ● Converge

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People’s personal and subjective experience with a verbal symbol is called

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Correct Answer: ● Connotative meaning

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The acknowledgment, validation, and support of another person is called

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Correct Answer: ● Confirmation

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Referents that you are able to detect with one of your senses. Concrete referents are those that you can see, smell, taste, touch, or hear is called concrete

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Correct Answer: ● True

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A theory explaining how two speakers of different backgrounds (based on age, culture, sex, or other differences) may adjust their style of speaking relative to each other is called

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Correct Answer: ● Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT)

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The number of words in a language it takes to express a thought is called

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Correct Answer: ● Codability

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Referents that cannot be detected through your senses is called

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Correct Answer: ● Abstract

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