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1. Social scientists who attempt to understand human communication by looking at animal communication as well are
employing which of the following perspectives?
Universal
Contemporary
→ Comparative
Comprehensive
International

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2. The linear model of communication involved five distinct stages. Which of the following is NOT one of those stages?
Deciding on the message
Encoding the intended meanings
Transmitting the message
→ Comparing the message with stored meanings
Decoding or interpreting the message
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3. Anna is searching her memory for specific words or gestures and their associated meanings to be put together in a pattern
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Encoding the intended message
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Receiving the message

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4. A subjective response that individuals learn to make, either to objects, events, or situations that they experience through
their senses, is called:
Communication.
Perceptions
→ Meanings
Symbols
Information
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5. Words or gestures whose conventional meaning people usually understand are:
→ Symbols
Signs
Sets of experiences
Signals
Meanings
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6. The concept of meaning is central to the encoding process. What something actually means to someone, however, is
difficult to define. The primary reason why meaning is so difficult to understand is that it is__________ behavior:
Objective
→ Subjective
Figurative
Detached
Denotative
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7. Imprinted records of experiences registered in the brain by activities of its nerve cells are termed:
→ Traces
Schemata
Symbols
Paths

Memories
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8. Recalling things such as cheerleaders, touchdowns, and helmets when someone mentions "football game" is an example of
a:
Trace

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Schema
Symbol
Cluster
Signal

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9. When a sender assesses the likelihood that a receiver will be able to interpret the intentions and meanings of a particular
message, the sender is engaging in:
Encoding
Decoding
→ Role-taking
Interpreting
Meanings
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10. __________ is a kind of "reading of the mind." The source mentally places himself or herself in the shoes of another
person to determine the best way to communicate the intended meanings so that the receiver can interpret them.
Feedback
Encoding

→ Role-taking
Sympathy
Receptiveness
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11. Seeing, hearing, or feeling something (with the senses) and then identifying what it is within the interpretations learned
from your own culture is the definition of:
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Meanings
Communication
Role-taking
Feedback
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12. The linear model of communication can be transformed into an interactive model by adding what component?
Traces
Decoding
→ Feedback
Role-taking
Context
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13. The simultaneous transactions model of communication can be summed up in six basic propositions. Which of the
following statements is NOT a proposition?
Communicating parties simultaneously engage in role-taking and feedback.
Communicating parties are simultaneously influenced by the social situation within which their
communication takes place.
Communicating parties are simultaneously influenced by their prior communicative interactions.
→ Communicating parties simultaneously analyze the act of communication.
Communicating parties are simultaneously influenced by the social relationships that exist between them.
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14. The nature of relationships such as those between spouses, friends, acquaintances, or supervisors and subordinates at work

can strongly influence:
→ What is communicated?
Traces and paths
Subsequent communication
Satisfaction with communication
Length of communication
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15. The whole range of intended elements we formulate into our message, exactly as we word it, is the:
→ Surface meaning
Active meaning
Comprehensive meaning
Deep meaning
Relational meaning
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Human communication can be thought of as a process during which a source initiates a message using conventionalized
symbols, nonverbal signs, and contextual cues to express meanings by transmitting information in such a way that similar
or parallel understandings are constructed by an intended other.
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False
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17. Meanings are subjective responses that individuals learn.
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False
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18. The encoding process is unbelievably fast and automated.
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False
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19. The physical surroundings where communication takes place have little influence on how a message is understood.
True
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20. Relationships such as those between spouses, friends, acquaintances, or strangers can strongly influence both the content
of messages and the way in which they are transmitted and received.
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False

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that all of the intended meanings of the sending individual are reconstructed by the
receiver so that they match.
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False
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22. An outcome in which meanings intended by the source become compounded with or displaced by other meanings
constructed by the receiver is the definition of incomplete communication.
True
→ False
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23. Communication distortion only occurs at the surface meaning level.
True

→ False
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24. Complete and accurate communication occurs only if the total combination of traits and schematic configurations of
meanings intended and developed by a source is identical to the total combination constructed and experienced by a
receiver.
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False
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25. Discuss how speech and language distinguish humans from animals.

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26. Discuss why effective communication skills are even more important today than in the past.

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27. List and discuss the components of the definition of human communication, including process, symbols, nonverbal signs,
contextual cues, and meanings.

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28. Understand and discuss the connection between accurate and distorted communication.

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29. Explain the process of encoding a message.

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