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Intercultural Nonverbal Communication MCQ

_____________ is the study of how people use space to communicate, including their relative (dis)comfort with intrusions into their personal space.

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Correct Answer: Proxemics

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Haptics is the study of the significance of touch.

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Correct Answer: True

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Haptics is the study of the significance of touch.

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Correct Answer: True

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The tone and rate of speech; other non-verbal sounds, such as a sigh or a whistle, that accompany words is known as:

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Correct Answer: Paralinguistics

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Nonverbal communication means all modes of communication except language, including non-word vocals, gestures, use of space, time, artifacts, and smell.

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Correct Answer: True

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Nonverbal study of our gestures, movements and facial expressions is called _________.

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Correct Answer: Kinesics

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Epistemology is the study of knowing, or how we know what we know.

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Correct Answer: True

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Producing knowledge; in relationship to the body, the body is a site through which we come to know, to gain knowledge about the world is known as :

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Correct Answer: Epistemic

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The nonverbal study of how time functions as part of communication is known as:

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Correct Answer: Chronemics

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______________ is the notion that our bodies and identities are inextricably intertwined.

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Correct Answer: Body identity

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The study of how we come to learn and know within our flesh—our neurons, muscles, bones, and other tissues is called _________.

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Correct Answer: Body epistemology

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Artifacts is a nonverbal study of our use of objects.

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Correct Answer: True

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_______________________ is the demeaning, dismissive or overtly hostile interpretations people with privilege assign to people they marginalize, and the ways people who are marginalized come to accept or internalize those negative interpretations, and according to Goffman it is deeply connected to communication about our bodies.

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Correct Answer: Stigma

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True/False: According to the authors of the textbook, our bodies and our identities are inextricably intertwine

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Correct Answer: True

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True/False: It is easy to determine our identity (as a whole) by filling out a survey or questionnaire and checking demographic boxes for race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age, income, marital status, and so forth.

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Correct Answer: False

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True/False: According to the authors of the textbook, there is a powerful relationship between intentional embodied practice and learning.

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Correct Answer: True

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When institutions (like schools, but also hospitals, jails, and places of employment) teach us to focus on our ideas and our minds by restricting how we move or draw attention to our bodies, it is an example of what Foucault means by “_____________________.”

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Correct Answer: Docile bodies

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French philosopher Michel Foucault (1977) described the process of making “_________________” or bodies that remain disciplined enough in order to achieve what those in power want you to achieve.

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Correct Answer: Docile bodies

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______________________ declared “Ego cogito, ergo sum,” more popularly understood in English as “I think, therefore I am.”

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Correct Answer: Rene Descartes

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True/False: There is only one possible reality in any given situation, for any audience, for any given context.

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Correct Answer: False

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___________________ is the study of knowing, or how we know what we know. It challenges the boundaries of what we know and what that knowledge might mean.

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Correct Answer: Epistemology

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Our bodies are _______________; that is, we come to know through our bodies.

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Correct Answer: Epistemic

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___________________ is communication that does not occur through words. Instead, it’s transmitted through things like vocal inflections, gestures and even use of space.

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Correct Answer: Non-verbal communication

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True/False: The body can be thought of as a site of knowing, a place where we, as people, learn about our world and our cultural norms.

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Correct Answer: True

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