Exam 1: A First Look at Interpersonal Communication

What is common in almost all interactions?

In healthy relationships, both parties flexibly share decision-making. Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

Which scenario below is an example of disclosure in qualitative interpersonal relationships?

You are attending a conference regarding the importance of communication. One speaker is addressing the issue of the golden hour; what is it?

Active strategies include reading, watching films, and asking experts or members of the other culture how to behave, as well as taking intercultural communication courses.

Day after day, Jeff and Simon argue about where they will go for the Christmas holidays. It seems that the more they try to resolve the problem, the more irritable and distant they become. What communication misconception does this scenario illustrate?

Poor communicators have limited ways to respond in difficult situations.

According to the text, what is a challenge when using social media?

Match each of the statements below with the element of the communication model it illustrates most clearly. a.channel b.sender c.environment d.external noise -Ellen is the person who takes flowers from everyone in the office to the boss, who is in the hospital.

People high in willingness to communicate with people from other cultures report a greater number of "intercultural" friends than those who are less willing to reach out.

Describe how you have used communication to meet each of the needs in Maslow's hierarchy.

Kim is travelling to Kenya to volunteer as a nurse for three months. What knowledge and skill strategy should she use to be an effective intercultural communicator?

An international study found that when some university students went 24 hours without using their cellphone, going on Facebook, texting, emailing, etc. they experienced symptoms similar to drug addiction withdrawal.

Impersonal communication follows unique social rules for behaviour.

Which statement best characterizes interpersonal relationships?

Match each of the statements below with the element of the communication model it illustrates most clearly. a.behaviour b.receiver c.environment d.message e.psychological noise -While your boss is giving the quarterly report, you are worrying about how you will get home from work.

Which qualitative interpersonal relationship characteristic simply means that the other's experiences affect you as well?

Which term can be described as the ability to construct a variety of different frameworks for viewing an issue?

Match each of the statements below with the element of the communication model it illustrates most clearly. a.behaviour b.receiver c.environment d.message e.psychological noise -Your friend's religion is different from yours, but you went to the same high school and college.

What are the two dimensions included in the majority of interpersonal messages?