Your Review Quiz

1. Your Review Quiz These questions were created by your peers. Enjoy! Use them as a game and study break but not a short cut to “soaking” in your notes and our textbook.

2. Question # 1 • The social-psychological tradition is based on the premise that as people talk, they produce and reproduce culture. • True or False? • False- socio-culture is based on the premise that as people talk they produce and reproduce culture.

3. Question # 2 • Which tradition focuses on communication as the process of sharing meaning through signs? • A) semiotic • B) critical • C) phenomenological • D) all of these are traditions

4. Question #3 • The main route to deep social penetration is through self-disclosure. • True • False

5. Question #4 • According to Barbara O’Keefe there are three different types of message design logic. • True or False? • TRUE!!! (expressive, conventional and rhetorical)

6. Question #5 • Which principle of social exchange theory helps gauge relational stability? • A) personality • B) self disclosure • C) comparison level • D) comparison level of alternative

7. Question #6 • According to CMM, which of these is not one of the contexts of communication patterns? • A) Episode • B) Relationship • C) Identity • D) Culture • E) None of the above; each is a context

8. Question #7 • For Martin Buber, dialogic communication involves remaining in the tension between holding our own perspective while being profoundly open to the other. • True or False? • TRUE!

9. Question #8 • The three core concepts of EVT included: • A) adaptation, violation valence, and net worth • B) expectancy, violation valence, and communication reward valence • C) violation valence, interaction, and adaptation • D) interaction, adaptation, and reality

10. Question #9 • The study of people’s use of space as special elaboration of culture is referred to as: • A) cultural specialty • B) chronemics • C) proxemics • D) kinesics

11. Question #10 • Ethnographers map out social discourse. They do this_______. • A) to discover who people think they are • B) what they think they are doing • C) to what end they think they are doing it • D) all of the above

12. Question #11 • Which type of stories are “positive or negative anecdotes told about others in an organization?” • A) collegial stories • B) corporate stories • C) personal stories • D) none of the above

13. Question #12 In Uncertainty Reduction Theory, which axiom states as nonverbal affiliative expressiveness increases, uncertainty levels will decrease in an initial interaction situation. • Self-disclosure • Reciprocity • Similarity • Nonverbal warmth

14. Question #13 • True/False: Deetz argues that communication is fundamentally the transmission of information. • FALSE! Deetz argues that communication is NOT based merely on transmission.

15. Question #14 • T/F: Managerial control is the process that invites open dialogue among a stake holder. • FALSE!

16. Question #15 • T/F: Assimilation takes place when a message falls into the latitude of rejection. • FALSE! Contrast is the more likely response.

17. Question #16 • T/F: A wide latitude of acceptance is usually a sign of high ego involvement. • FALSE!

18. Question #17 • Which of the following is not one of Baxter and Montgomery’s internal dialectics? • A) Openness – Closedness • B) Certainty – Uncertainty • C) Self-expression – Non-expression • D) Connectedness – Separateness

19. Question #18 • Segmentation is a tactic by which partners • A) ignore different aspects of their relationship • B) try to temporarily avoid their partners • C) isolate different aspects of their relationship • D) none of the above

20. Question #19 • Dewey’s pragmatism is based on the assumption that practical decisions are brought under more intelligent control through rational inquiry in a six step process called • A) Prioritizing • B) Reflected Thinking • C) Six Sigma • D) Implementality

21. Question #20 • According to Hirokawa and Gouran, which is not a requisite function? • A) problem analysis • B) potential productivity • C) identification of alternatives • D) evaluation of positive and negative consequences

22. Question #21 • What are the five components of the phase model? • A) orientation, conflict, coalescence, diversity, integration • B) orientation, convergence, coalescence, diversity, integration • C) orientation, conflict, coalescence, development, integration • D) none of the above

23. Question #22 • Duality of structure refers to the idea that rules and resources are both the ______ and the ______ of interaction. • A) medium, outcome • B) medium, effect • C) problem, outcome • D) product, medium

24. Question #23 • T/F: Petty and Cacioppo, of elaboration likelihood model, claim that we have a large mesh mental filter that allows items we regard as less important to flow through without being processed very carefully. • TRUE!

25. Question #24 • In the peripheral route, recipients rely on a variety of cues that allow them to make a quick decision. All of the following are a part of Cialdini’s list of six cues that trigger a “click, whir” programmed response EXCEPT • A) Reciprocation • B) Consistency • C) Scarcity • D) Evaluation

26. Exam Basics • 50 questions • Chapters: 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 21 (Yes, I know that’s a lot. But many questions will be pulled from class quizzes, online quizzes and slide show) • Essay to be used as a curve if needed • Bring pencils or 1 dollar to buy one • Essay limited to one side of one page • Can use old quizzes and textbook website quizzes to prepare • You can have one page of notes