Interpersonal Communication

Your personal relationships depend largely on your effectiveness as an ............................ communicator.

• intrapersonal

• interpersonal

• impersonal

• massive

Interpersonal skills play an important role in .......

• preventing workplace violence

• reducing medical mishaps

• improving doctor-patient communication

• none of the above

Interpersonal communication is the communication that takes place between people who are in some way ......

• limited

• connected

• strangers

• relatives

Although largely dyadic in nature, interpersonal communication is often extended to include small intimate groups such as the family.

Dyadic means ......

• between two people

• between oneself

• between you and the environment

• between a large group

The actions of one person have consequences on the other person; implies that they are ..................

• independent

• understanding

• empathetic

• interdependent

Because of this interdependency, interpersonal communication is inevitably and essentially relational in nature. Explain briefly.

Nonverbal communication accounts for more than 90 percent of the meaning of any message.

• True

• False

• Depends

All interpersonal communication is face-to-face.

• True

• False

Some computer-mediated communication (for example, e-mail, tweets, or posts on Facebook) is asynchronous; that means it

• takes place just-in-time

• does not necessarily take place in real-time

• is always untruthful

• is a waste of time

Among college students, as you probably know, the major purpose of IM seems to be to maintain .................

• social status

• social standards

• social wellbeing

• social connectedness