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Quiz # 14
Communication (Interpersonal) Quiz # 14
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Quiz:
Communication (Interpersonal) Quiz # 14
Subject:
Foundations Of Interpersonal Communication
Total Questions:
30 MCQs
Time:
30 Minutes
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Interpersonal communication is ongoing, unending, and always changing; therefore, it is ______
A process
A transaction
Meaningful
Transactional
What does the interactional model of communication include that is not present in the linear model
Noise
Channel
Context
Feedback
______ must take place for interpersonal communication to happen.
Trust
Conversation
Shared meaning
Message exchange
Which communication context includes the friendliness or unfriendliness of an interaction?
Physical
Cultural
Social–emotional
Historical
Which type of noise refers to the communicator’s biases?
Physical noise
Physiological noise
Semantic noise
Psychological noise
When two people are raised in the same religion, their ______ overlap.
Ethics
Fields of experience
Cultures
Relational rules
According to ______, meeting someone online differs from face-to-face.
SIP theory
The interactional model
The transactional model
The linear approach
Interpersonal communication occurs because symbols are ______.
Abstract
Discussed in detail
Mutually agreed upon
Are known by everyone
What is the term for the process of becoming the best person we can be?
Personal growth
Self-actualization
Lifelong learning
Ethical choices
“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?
Interpersonal communication is common sense.
Interpersonal communication is always face-to-face.
Interpersonal communication solves all problems.
More interpersonal communication is better.
The primary goal of ______ is to (re)gain constraints on our own behavior.
Ethics
Communication
The bright side
The dark side
The shared life experiences of a group of people who have a common set of values and traditions is ______.
Communication
Culture
Community
Diversity
Which scenario is an example of enculturation?
A preschool program teaches English to a child whose first language is Somali.
A young Muslim girl learns that strangers will sometimes avert their eyes when she wears a hijab.
Parents teach their child to call adults outside the family “Ma’am” or “Sir” because that is what they were taught.
An employee who has recently arrived from another country learns that if he does not speak up in meetings, his manager will assume he has no ideas.
In a journal article about intercultural communication, you read the term coculture. What does the author mean by this term?
A culture that values equality between the sexes
A strong culture whose members have a single cultural identity
A culture that is in frequent conflict with a dominant culture
A distinct culture within a larger culture
What is meant by the statement “Culture has multiple levels”?
People who are members of different cocultures have little in common.
Culture has more levels in a very diverse country than in a less diverse country.
Culture exists on levels other than national background.
There are many barriers to intercultural communication.
What is the demographic imperative for studying intercultural communication?
Understanding what is ethical and unethical in the context of a culture’s values
Relating better to an increasingly diverse population
Doing business more effectively in an increasingly globalized economic environment
Becoming more aware of one’s own cultural perspective
People sometimes use a “symphony” or a “mosaic” as a metaphor to describe the diversity of cultures in the United States. What is meant by these metaphors?
People from different cultures have difficulty communicating.
The U.S. population has become more diverse through immigration, but immigrants have mostly acculturated.
People identify as members of a national group while maintaining cultural differences.
Everyone must assimilate and adhere to the norms and practices of the dominant culture.
If you travel to a country where the culture is high in power distance, what should you expect?
There will be clear distinctions between people of different statuses, and people will accept these distinctions.
People in authority tend to be happy, and people with less authority tend to be unhappy.
In everyday life, people relate to each other as equals, even though wealthier people have more power than poor people.
Characteristics such as competitiveness and material success are emphasized over supportiveness and compassion.
The statement “Asian students are good at math” is an example of ______.
Ethnocentrism
Out-grouping
Practicing cultural respect
Stereotyping
Which example represents someone communicating within their in-group?
A person who identifies as bisexual volunteers at an LGBT community center.
A person who identifies as African American attends a Native American powwow.
A person who identifies as a Vietnam veteran attends a military academy graduation ceremony.
A person who identifies as female enters a profession in which 80 % of workers are male.
What is one way to educate yourself about intercultural communication with recent immigrants from Central America?
Read a novel by an Anglo-American author that is set in Central America.
Attend a lecture by an author from Central America who has written about her culture.
Be patient when communicating with people from Central America.
Examine your stereotypes and other biases about people from Central America.
______ is an active and challenging process that involves all five senses.
Perception
Mindfulness
Cultural variation
Organizing
Mindfulness is part of the ______ stage of perception
Attending and selecting
Organizing
Interpreting
Memorizing
Since it is impossible to focus on every detail of behavior when we are communicating, we engage in ______.
Organization
Selective perception
Mindfulness
Memorization
In which stage of the interpersonal perception process do we use relational schema?
Attending and selecting
Organizing
Interpreting
Memorizing
We assign meaning in the ______ stage of the interpersonal communication process.
Attending and selecting
Organizing
Interpreting
Memorizing
Which of these dictates how we organize and interpret during the perception process?
Expectations
Socialization
Rules
Culture
What is the term for someone who possesses both masculine and feminine traits in equally large amounts?
Androgynous
Undifferentiated
Differentiated
Gendered
Chronic health issues are a ______ factor that can contribute to variations in perceptions.
Cultural
Sex and gender
Physical
Self-concept
What theory suggests our communication with others shapes our personal identity?
Self-actualization
Symbolic interactionism
Impression management
Social information processing
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