Chapter 7

Which of the following is NOT related to nonverbal communication?

• Your paralanguage

• Your gender

• The language you speak

• The rate and speed of your voice

when you become aware of nonverbal messages in your everyday life, how should you interpret them?

• As reliable facts

• As clues that need to be verified

• As ways of knowing what a person is thinking

• As ways to understand meanings

What is the nonverbal functional equivalent to telling the person that its their turn to speak?

• An adaptor

• A regulator

• a micro expression

• An illustrator

which term includes body orientation, posture, gestures, facial expressions, and eye movements?

• Kinesics

• External factors

• The relational dimension of nonverbal communication

• a function of nonverbal communication

You make an appointment for 3:30 to see your doctor. You arrive on time but find yourself sitting in the waiting room for 45 minutes before you're finally called in. What nonverbal notion is this an example of?

• a public distance

• status

• regulating

• chronemics

What influences how a touch to the shoulder can be interpreted?

• The pressure of the touch

• Whether or not the person is touching bot shoulders

• Whether the touch is intentional or unintentional

• what the "toucher" meant by it

According to your text which statement best describes deception cues?

• If we watch people very carefully, we can detect their deception cues.

• Our ability to pick up deception cues is only a little better than leaving it to chance

• People avoid eye contact when they are lying

• People with nonverbal learning disorders are better detectors of deception

Into which category does the distance we place between ourselves, and others fall as a form of nonverbal communication?

• Social distance

• Territorial

• Kinesics

• Proxemics

From which of the following can you learn about a person’s economic level, educational level, social position, or trustworthiness?

• their clothing

• Their nonverbal communication

• their nonverbal leakage

• their paralanguage

You hear two individuals speaking a language you don’t recognize yet you understand that they’re both very sad or distraught about something. Which statement best explains why you could be correct?

• Paralanguage is an excellent indicator of a person’s emotional state

• Nonverbal cues can give words a particular meaning

• Even if we don’t understand a language, we can identify the emotion and its strength

• Emblems have the same meanings in every culture