Exam 7: Conversations

Which part of a conversation involves asking someone for input about a topic?

To facilitate interaction with people whose cultural background or gender differs from your own, you need to do the following:

Technologically speaking, even as we connect, we __________________.

Many of us prefer connecting online to interacting face to face, often because of social anxiety.

Forcing a respondent to choose a specific response to a question is called _______________.

_______________ frees us to be with each other and somewhere else simultaneously.

A blog, short for ______________, is another way to compose our thoughts and share our ideas with others.

This percentage of our everyday talk tends to simply tell others of our thoughts and feelings.

Face-to-face time correlates with more _______________________________ in teenagers.

The manner maxim asks that we not go off on tangents or purposefully digress and switch subjects while our partner still wants to talk about the same topic.

While for women conversations are negotiations for achievement, for men they are negotiations for closeness.

Describing _______________ exchanges as spontaneous does not mean that our conversations are random or without rules.

We are better able to involve and interest another person in conversing with us when asking open-ended questions.

How does a dialogue contribute to an effective conversation?

Explain three functions of a successful conversation.

______________ _________________ is its own reward, triggering the same sensations in the brain as food and money.

Share at least three characteristics of a good conversationalist.

Explain the analogy of "games and players" as it relates to having a conversation.

When we skip the priming stage of a conversation, we are often seen as rude, insensitive, or interpersonally deficient.

The conversational maxims-relevancy, manner, quality, and quantity-are universal maxims used by all cultures.