Exam 2: Human Communication Processes in the Small Group Context

Responsibility for a misunderstanding is usually shared by speaker and listener(s).

People from a culture in which the backchannel is rarely used are likely to perceive people who use it often as being

Mesomorphs (muscular types) are more likely to be perceived as leaders.

Strokes are more appropriate than pats as signs of affecting and unity among members of American secondary groups.

This group is focused on the task at hand

Group members whose faces are highly expressive of their feelings are likely to be more trusted than members who are "poker" faced.

What does it mean to say that communications involves relationship dimensions?

Which of these options is better when group cohesiveness and interpersonal relationships are important

Regulating who speaks, and when, during a small group discussion is done primarily with words, such as a leader calling on persons by name.

Paralanguage is nonverbal characteristics of voice and utterance.

Good listeners do which of the following?

The technique of paraphrasing what the listener understands a speaker to mean, then asking for confirmation or correction, is called ______________ listening.

What might be the correct interpretation for silence?

As used in Effective Group Discussion, "meaning" indicates something that occurs in

How well a person communicates depends more on attitudes toward other people and knowledge about how communication occurs than on specific communication skills and techniques.

Effective Group Discussion defines human communication as

Which of the following is one of the four factors that influence the small group context as laid out by your authors?

The symbolic and personal nature of communication makes for perfect understanding amongst communicators.

Tone of voice and other nonverbal cues that indicate how a speaker considers herself in terms of other group members is

Symbols are arbitrary, human creations used to represent experiences, objects, or concepts.