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Exam 1-Communications

Total questions: 65

Worksheet time: 39mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is Common Sense?

a)

Lead us to believe most other people have our communication skills, so we believe that approaches to communication that works for us, work for others, this is false and not true all the time. We all have different communication skills.

b)

leads us to question our assumptions and become attentive to other perspectives. It also leads us to access the communication situation we’re in. 

2.

What is Personal Theory?

a)

help us to describe, explain, predict, and sometimes control phenomena and circumstances we encounter.

b)

Helps us define ourselves through communication.

c)

based on experience, usually taken for granted, often private and not shared with others, they are also stable and do not often change.

3.

What is Scholarly Theories

a)

help us to describe, explain, predict, and sometimes control phenomena and circumstances we encounter.

b)

developed through research involving systematic observation, information gathering, and analysis.

c)

Based on systemic observations and testing.

They are usually questioned/studied, available to the public, and seek validity, reliability, and utility. They can also be changed or modified.

4.

What is Validity?

a)

Dependability and Consistency

b)

Usefulness and applicability

c)

Accuracy and aim

5.

What is reliabilty?

a)

Consistency and dependability

b)

Accuracy and aim

c)

Usefulness and applicability

6.

What is Utility?

a)

Accuracy and aim

b)

Consistency and dependability

c)

Usefulness and applicability

7.

Is Communication a Social science or Liberal art?

a)

Liberal Art:

Linguistics, and Literary Theory

b)

Social Science:

Sociology, Psychology, and Anthropology

c)

Both!

d)

None

8.

What is a Paradigm?

a)

Getting Attention. Purpose, Information, Persuasion, Question-Answer, Tone, Conversation, opening and closing, Silence, Interpretation, Laughter

b)

 broad framework that guides the work of scholars over a long period of time as they conduct research and develop specific theories.

c)

An inconsistency or discrepant observation that challenges

9.

What is an Anomaly?

a)

An inconsistency or discrepant observation that challenges the paradigm

b)

Framework that guides the work of scholars over a long period of time as they conduct research and develop specific theories. (Thomas Kuhn)

c)

Getting Attention. Purpose, Information, Persuasion, Question-Answer, Tone, Conversation, opening and closing, Silence, Interpretation, Laughter

10.

Communication paradigms are

a)

S>M>R=E

S= Source, M= Message, R= Receiver, E= Effect

b)

MS does not equal MR

MS- Message Sent, MR- Message Received

11.

Communication Anomaly's are

a)

MS does not equal MR

MS- Message Sent, MR- Message Received

b)

S>M>R=E

S= Source, M= Message, R= Receiver, E= Effect

12.

What are examples of one-way communication

a)

A radio broadcast

b)

A debate

c)

Teacher teaching a student

d)

Lawyer practicing law in court and you're the judge

13.

What are examples of two-way communication

a)

A debate

b)

Someone going on a date

c)

Listening to the radio

d)

Watching a youtube video

14.

What did Donny and Marcia talk about?

a)

A guy that Marcia was going to call up that made Donny feel weird

b)

Relationship problems

c)

Donny throwing a party and Marcia not getting invited

d)

Donny asking Marcia for a ride due to car problems

15.

Whose model is this: Source->Message->Receiver

a)

Schramm

b)

Kats & Lazarsfeld

c)

Frank Dance

d)

Aristole

16.

Whose model is this: Who-What-Channel (or medium)-Whom=Effect

a)

Laswell

b)

Aristole

c)

Shannon & Weaver

d)

Westley & Maclean

17.
a)

Schramm

b)

Shannon & Weaver

c)

Westley & Maclean

d)

Frank Dance

18.
a)

Schramm

b)

Westley & Maclean

c)

Kats & Lazarsfeld

d)

DeVito

19.

Whose model of Communication is this: Step 1:

Sources->Message->Mass Media->Opinion Leaders

Step 2:

Opinion Leaders->Public

a)

Aristole

b)

Kats & Lazarfeld

c)

Schramm

d)

Lasswell

20.
a)

Westley and Macclean

b)

DeVito

c)

Schramm

d)

Macclean

21.
a)

Watzalack-Beavin-Jackson

b)

DeVito

c)

Frank Dance

d)

Schramm

22.
a)

Westley and Macclean

b)

Watzalack-Beavin-Jackson

c)

Schramm

d)

DeVito

23.
a)

Aristole

b)

Watzalack, Beavin, and Jackson

c)

DeVito

d)

Schramm

24.

How does Aristole address the Anomaly MS does not equal MR?

Source->Message->Receiver

a)

No, only message sent

b)

No

c)

Noise can affect the message

d)

Meaning negotiation

25.

How does Lasswell address the anomaly MS does not equal MR?

Who-What-Channel (or medium)-Whom=Effect

a)

Two-step flow can affect it because the message can go through two people before reaching you and those two people can change the message based on opinions. For example, a Politician giving a speech and a friend tells you about it

b)

No focus on time not message sent or recieved

c)

Focus on interpretation

d)

No

26.

How does Shannon & Weaver address the anomaly MS does not equal MR?

a)

Field of experience can affect how you understand the message. If a doctor talks about medicine to a toddler for example.

b)

Noise can affect the message

c)

Two-step flow can affect it because the message can go through two people before reaching you and those two people can change the message based on opinions. For example, a Politician giving a speech and a friend tells you about it

d)

Focus on interpretation

27.

How does Schramm address the anomaly MS does not equal MR?

a)

Field of experience can affect how you understand the message. If a doctor talks about medicine to a toddler for example.

b)

 Noise can affect the message

c)

Focus on interpretation

d)

Two-step flow can affect it because the message can go through two people before reaching you and those two people can change the message based on opinions. For example, a Politician giving a speech and a friend tells you about it

28.

How does Katz & Lazarsfeld address the anomaly MS does not equal MR?

Step 1:

Sources->Message->Mass Media->Opinion Leaders

Step 2:

Opinion Leaders->Public

a)

Field of experience can affect how you understand the message. If a doctor talks about medicine to a toddler for example.

b)

No, only message sent

c)

No, focus on time not the message sent or received

d)

Two-step flow can affect it because the message can go through two people before reaching you and those two people can change the message based on opinions. For example, a Politician giving a speech and a friend tells you about it

29.

How does Westley & Maclean address the anomaly MS does not equal MR?

a)

Two-step flow can affect it because the message can go through two people before reaching you and those two people can change the message based on opinions. For example, a Politician giving a speech and a friend tells you about it

b)

No. Starts with Received

c)

Meaning Negotiation

d)

No, focus on time not message sent or received

30.

How does Dance address the anomaly MS does not equal MR?

a)

Meaning Negotiation

b)

No, only message sent

c)

No focus on time nor message sent or received

d)

Focus on source--->Receiver

31.

How does Watzlawick, Bevin, and Jackson address the anomaly MS does not equal MR?

a)

Focus on interpretation

b)

Meaning Negotiation

c)

No. Starts with Received

d)

Noise can affect the message

32.

How does DeVito address the anomaly MS does not equal MR?

a)

Meaning Negotiation

b)

Two-step flow can affect it because the message can go through two people before reaching you and those two people can change the message based on opinions. For example, a Politician giving a speech and a friend tells you about it

c)

Focus on interpretation

d)

No. Starts with Received

33.

What is an example of Olfactory signals?

a)

Smelling cooked pie

b)

Hearing music

c)

Seeing a movie

d)

Ants using Phermones

34.

What is an example of a tactile signal?

a)

Smelling pie

b)

Hearing someone yell "Help!"

c)

Touching your keyboard

d)

Watching a concert

35.

What is an example of an auditory signal?

a)

Hearing Someone screaming

b)

Watching a movie

c)

Dancing with someone

d)

Smelling chicken

36.

Do high vertebrates rely on visual and auditory symbols?

a)

Yes!

b)

No!

37.

Do Low vertebraes rely on olfactory or visual?

a)

Olfactory

b)

Visual

38.

Do Invertebraes rely on olfactory, visual, or auditory?

a)

Auditory and olfactory

b)

Olfactory

c)

Visual

d)

Visual and auditory

39.

Human language is...

a)

Voluntary

b)

Learned(socialization)

c)

Involuntary (automatic response)

d)

Instinctive(hardwired)

40.

Which language has: Repertoire Size- Natural: 50 calls, Learned <200 P signs

a)

Primate

b)

Neither

c)

Both

d)

Human

41.

Which language has: vocab: 2000 words used everyday, Understand 45,000

a)

Primate

b)

Human

c)

Neither

42.

What is syntax?

a)

the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.

b)

A finite number of words can be arranged into infinitely messages.

c)

“Man” “The man” “The tall man” “The tall man in the black coat”

d)

Creativity of language

43.

What is expandability?

a)

Creativity of language

b)

A finite number of words can be arranged into infinitely messages.

c)

“Man” “The man” “The tall man” “The tall man in the black coat”

44.

What is productivity?

a)

Expanability

b)

Creativity of Language

c)

the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.

d)

A finite number of words can be arranged into infinitely messages.

45.

What is the Broca's area?

a)

Controls meaning/semantics

b)

Controls syntax, production

c)

manipulation and creation of signals

46.

What is the Wernicke's area?

a)

Controls meaning/semantics

b)

Photographic memories

c)

manipulation and creation of signals

d)

Controls syntax/productivity

47.

Is larynx for humans higher in the body or lower?

a)

Higher

b)

Lower

c)

Middle

48.

Is the Larynx for animals higher or lower?

a)

Higher

b)

Lower

c)

Middle

d)

They don't have one

49.

The Broca's area and Wernicke are found on the right hemisphere of the brain

a)

True

b)

False

50.

What are visible aspects of Communication?

a)

Interactants

b)

Subjectivity

c)

Learning

d)

Symbols

51.

Interactants, Symbols, and Media are visible aspects of Communication T or F?

a)

True

b)

False

52.

What is Subjectivity?

a)

Individual/unique understandings of things  

b)

Related to experience

c)

Learning through socialization and cultural norms  

d)

Second-order information processing event: someone guiding you.

53.

What is Culture?

a)

Individuals->relationships->groups->organizations->Societies

b)

Shared meanings, views of reality=culture

c)

Meanings get “intersubjective” (Shared standardized) through communication with others

54.

Self reflexivity is...

a)

Reflecting on our experiences, interactions

b)

All communication is autobiographical

c)

Presentation of self

55.

Self-reference is...

a)

All communication is autobiographical

b)

Reflecting on our experiences, interactions

56.

Scholarly theories in communication are evaluated in terms of these three principles

(a)  

57.

The Capacity through the use of media for symbols to having meaning and significance apart from the situation in which they were originally used

(a)  

58.

N/A refers to the activity of sending and receiving messages, and to the discipline as a whole. N/A refers to the technologies or to specific messages that are transmitted through media

(a)  

59.

Model of communication that introduced the two-step flow

(a)  

60.

The model of communication emphasized communication as a two-way process.

(a)  

61.

Reflex or automatic responses which do not involve symbolic processing

(a)  

62.

When we discussed a photograph we used this to describe, explain, and predict

(a)  

63.

The relationship between the word dog and the furry animal that it represents is

(a)  

64.

Earliest Study of Communication

(a)  

65.

According to class discussion, the hidden levels of the N/A can replace  as an explanation for what went wrong between Shane and Vivian

(a)