Exam 5: Messages: Verbal and Nonverbal Support

The indices of credibility were constructed to apply various tests to evidence to evaluate government, pressure groups, the press, and scholars.

Arguments intended to illicit pity are called:

Mehrabian claimed that 93 percent of a total message's meaning is the result of nonverbal factors. Which of the following contribute to this meaning?

Define nonverbal communication and explain the functions of nonverbal communication.

The ad populum fallacy is referred to as the bandwagon effect.

Personal space is 8 to 10 feet.

Edward Hall called nonverbal communication which two of the following?

Explain the nonverbal code of chronemics and include in your answer the notions of culture, technical definitions, and personal perceptions.

An individual may commit an unintentional fallacy through faulty reasoning or incomplete research.

It is easier to control our body language than our words.

Territoriality allows primates to occupy and defend their personal space.

Walter Fisher created which of the following as one means to support an argument or to offer evidence?

An example that is so familiar to the audience that they fill in the details to reach a conclusion is called:

There are a series of "ad" fallacies, which means "to the people."