Exam 7: Oculesics: Engaging Gaze and Other Eye Behaviors

Gaze is a looking behavior that occurs when we ______.

If people aren't careful about monitoring their other verbal and nonverbal messages at the same time that they are using prolonged eye contact in an interpersonal encounter, they are likely to experience ______.

Which of the following is an accurate definition of eye contact?

Compare the four main types of emotional displays that can be sent using oculesics.

If you play with your hair, lick your lips, and smile in someone's direction while making eye contact, you are ______.

Gazing at another person is an easy way for us to obtain information about their age, gender, race, and social class so that we can quickly categorize them.

Eye movement is used in a manner similar to which of the other following forms of nonverbal behavior?

Male gaze is the sexual objectification of women's bodies by men through prolonged staring.

How does mutual gaze differ from male gaze?

When we direct our gaze behavior toward one individual our judgments about them are also influenced by the people that surround them.

Eye-related behaviors can reflect and express the nature of our emotional experience.

Gazing at another person is an easy way for us to quickly obtain and categorize information that activates our______ understandings.

The difference between eye contact intended to convey attraction to another person and eye contact intended to convey a general interest is ______.

Compare a hypothetical situation when eye behavior alone is used to convey a message of threat to that same hypothetical situation when eye behavior is combined with other nonverbal messages that send that same threat message.

Objectification of another person through prolonged staring can be particularly challenging when the person ______.

Miguel was annoyed when he heard a knock at his door after 9 p.m.. But when he heard his otherwise gentle dog begin to growl, he became concerned. He opened the door a crack. he narrowed eyes and put a snarl on his face as if to say, "I ______."

Much like gaze behavior which is intentionally used as a form of communication, pupil dilation is used to send intentional messages of romantic interest.

Because eye contact is so frequently used to let someone know that you are interested in them, this type of eye behavior is rarely trusted.

In most cases, you should assume that someone gazing at you is sending a conscious message of attention or interest.

When Jasmine learned she had to attend a fundraising event for a local nonprofit her company sponsored, she had mixed feelings. She was looking forward to dressing up, but she was dreading the thought of making small talk with strangers. However, her negative feelings quickly disappeared when she scanned the room and her eyes met those of an attractive man on the other side of the room in a moment of ______ gaze.