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Foundations of Interpersonal Communication MCQ

Which scenario is an example of enculturation?

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Correct Answer: Parents teach their child to call adults outside the family “Ma’am” or “Sir” because that is what they were taught.

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The primary goal of ______ is to (re)gain constraints on our own behavior.

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Correct Answer: Ethics

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“The Pause” being instituted by some doctors and medical teams as a sign of respect when a patient dies dispels which myth about interpersonal communication?

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Correct Answer: More interpersonal communication is better.

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What is the term for the process of becoming the best person we can be?

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Correct Answer: Self-actualization

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Interpersonal communication occurs because symbols are ______.

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Correct Answer: Mutually agreed upon

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According to ______, meeting someone online differs from face-to-face.

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Correct Answer: SIP theory

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When two people are raised in the same religion, their ______ overlap.

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Correct Answer: Fields of experience

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Which type of noise refers to the communicator’s biases?

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Correct Answer: Psychological noise

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Which communication context includes the friendliness or unfriendliness of an interaction?

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Correct Answer: Social–emotional

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______ must take place for interpersonal communication to happen.

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Correct Answer: Shared meaning

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What does the interactional model of communication include that is not present in the linear model

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Correct Answer: Feedback

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Interpersonal communication is ongoing, unending, and always changing; therefore, it is ______

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Correct Answer: A process

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When engaging in intrapersonal communication, you are having a conversation with ______

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Correct Answer: Yourself

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______ formed alongside the formation of Western civilization.

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Correct Answer: Communication studies

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Transactional Model of Communication is a characterization of communication as the reciprocal sending and receiving of messages. In a transactional encounter, the sender and receiver do not simply send meaning from one to the other and then back again; rather, they build shared meaning through simultaneous sending and receiving.

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Correct Answer: ● True

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Arbitrary labels or representations (such as words) for feelings, concepts, objects, or events is called

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Correct Answer: ● Symbols

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The relational and emotional environment in which communication occurs is known as

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Correct Answer: ● Social-emotional context

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Which theory explains the online relationships typically demonstrate the same sort of intimacy as those we have developed f2f. SIP Theory underscores the fact that people who work to establish online relationships usually take longer periods of time to develop than traditional f2f relationships.

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Correct Answer: ● Social Information Processing (SIP) Theory

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_______ is the source of a message.

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Correct Answer: ● Sender

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A theory that examines the study of symbols in relation to their form and content is called

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Correct Answer: ● Semiotics theory

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Semantic noise cccurs when senders and receivers apply different meanings to the same message; may take the form of jargon, technical language, and other words and phrases that are familiar to the sender but that are not understood by the receiver.

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Correct Answer: ● True

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In self actualizations process of gaining information about ourselves in an effort to tap our full potential, our spontaneity, and our talents, and to cultivate our strengths and eliminate our shortcomings.

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Correct Answer: ● True

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A prescribed guide that indicates what behavior is obligated, preferred, or prohibited in certain contexts is called

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Correct Answer: ● Rules

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Relationship level is the information contained in a message that indicates how the sender wants the receiver to interpret the message.

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Correct Answer: ● True

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_______ is the ways in which the particular relationship of two relational partners stands apart from other relationships they experience.

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Correct Answer: ● Relational uniqueness

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Negotiable rules that indicate what two relational partners expect and allow when they talk to each other is called

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Correct Answer: ● Relational rules

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The prior relationship experiences that two people share is called

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Correct Answer: ● Relational history

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_______ The intended target of a message.

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Correct Answer: ● Receiver

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The biases or prejudices of a sender or receiver that interrupts the meaning of a message is called

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Correct Answer: ● Psychological noise

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When used to describe interpersonal communication, an ongoing, unending, vibrant activity that always changes in the process

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Correct Answer: ● True

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Interference in message reception because of physical, biological, or chemical functions of the body is called

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Correct Answer: ● Physiological noise

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External disturbances that interrupt the meaning between a sender and receiver is called

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Correct Answer: ● Physical Noise

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_______ is the tangible environment in which communication occurs.

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Correct Answer: ● Physical context

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Anything that interferes with accurate transmission or reception of a message is a noise and See also physical noise, physiological noise, psychological noise, and semantic noise.

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Correct Answer: ● True

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_______ is the insults, indignities, and denigrating messages delivered to marginalized communities.

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Correct Answer: ● Microaggressions

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The transaction of verbal and nonverbal messages being sent simultaneously between two people is called

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Correct Answer: ● Message exchange

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What communicators create together through the use of verbal and nonverbal messages is called

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Correct Answer: ● Meaning

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A characterization of communication as a one-way process that transmits a message from a sender to a receiver is called

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Correct Answer: ● Linear model of communication

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The _______ process of message transaction between two people to create and sustain shared meaning.

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Correct Answer: ● Interpersonal communication

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_______ is the feedback we give ourselves when we assess our own communication is known as

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Correct Answer: ● Internal feedback

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Intercultural communication apprehension is a A fear or anxiety pertaining to communication with people from different cultural backgrounds.

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Correct Answer: ● True

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Interactional model of communication is a characterization of communication as a two-way process in which a message is sent from sender to receiver and from receiver to sender.

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Correct Answer: ● True

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_______ is a type of context in which messages are understood in relationship to previously sent messages.

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Correct Answer: ● Historical context

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An ethical system, articulated by Aristotle, proposing that a person’s moral virtue stands between two vices, with the middle, or the mean, being the foundation for a rational society is a golden mean

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Correct Answer: ● True

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The influence of a person’s culture, past experiences, personal history, and heredity on the communication process is called

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Correct Answer: ● Field of experience

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_______ is a verbal or nonverbal response to a message.

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Correct Answer: ● Feedback

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The feedback we receive from other people is called

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Correct Answer: ● External feedback

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_______ is the perceived rightness or wrongness of an action or behavior.

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Correct Answer: ● Ethics

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An ethical system, based on the concepts of Carol Gilligan, that is concerned with the connections among people and the moral consequences of decisions in ethic of care

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Correct Answer: ● True

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The cultural environment in which communication occurs; refers to the rules, roles, norms, and ____________ that are unique to a particular culture.

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Correct Answer: ● patterns of communication

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The environment in which a message is sent is known as

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Correct Answer: ● Context

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The verbal and nonverbal information contained in a message that indicates the topic of the message is called

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Correct Answer: ● Content level

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Which ______ models show the Visual, simplified representations of complex relationships in the communication process.

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Correct Answer: ● Communication Models

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A fear or anxiety pertaining to the communication process is called

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Correct Answer: ● Communication apprehension

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Communication is the cocreation and interpretation of meaning.

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Correct Answer: ● True

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______ is a pathway through which a message is sent.

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Correct Answer: ● Channel

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An ethical system, based on the work of philosopher Immanuel Kant, advancing the notion that individuals follow moral absolutes. The underlying tenet in this ethical system suggests that we should act as an example to others is called

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Correct Answer: Categorical imperative

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