Nonverbal Communication

Fidgeting, tapping your fingers on a table, pacing, mumbling, and using vocal interferences and adaptors can hinder another person's interpretation of your message.

• True

• False

Which is NOT a characteristic of nonverbal communication?

• It is continuous.

• It is multi-channeled.

• It is intentional.

• It is unambiguous.

Gestures that augment a verbal message are called...

• emphasizers.

• illustrators.

• emblems.

• symbols.

• adaptors.

When you use your Air Buds, you are using up __________ space.

• territorial

• acoustic

• personal

• chronemic

This is the first thing people judge.

• chronemics

• proxemics

• pitch

• physical appearance

Justin speaks so fast his brothers cannot understand him. He needs to adjust his ...

• voice quality

• haptics

• rate

• intonation

The five types of nonverbal communication are...

• gestures, posture, standing, adaptors, and eye contact.

• kinesics, paralanguage, proxemics, chronemics, and body.

• space, time, rate, voice, and appearance.

• body, voice, space, time, and appearance.

True or False: Chronemics is the technical name for what and how body movements communicate. We can either be monochronic or polychronic.

• True

• False

____________ refers to how space and distance communicate.

• Kinesics

• Proxemics

• Paralanguage

• Chronemics

According to the text, the use of your body to communicate non-verbally is referred to as...

• vocalics.

• proxemics

• kinesics

• chronemics