Exam 15: Language and Communication

Noller (1984),in investigating communication patterns among married couples,found that

Kraut and Johnston (1979)went to a bowling alley to investigate facial expressions amongst people playing team sport.They found that players

Which of the following allow us to communicate meaning in language?

Which of the following is a characteristic associated with high ethnolinguistic vitality in a minority group?

In her tutorial class,Sue signals her attention by nodding,making supportive sounds and by looking at the tutor.Inwardly,she is quite bored.Sue is using

Cultural and situational prescriptions about when,where and how to express emotions are referred to as

Discourse analysis,a relatively recent line of research,argues that

Sophia is Colombian and moves to the United States where she learns English as a second language.Sophia is very proud of her Colombian heritage and,as such,she does not make a concerted effort to get rid of her Colombian accent when speaking English.This demonstrates that

Research on sex differences in computer-mediated communication has shown that

Felicia loves playing video games.However,at school she often conceals this interest in face-to-face situations because other girls tend to find video games boring and boys often ridicule her by saying that she probably sucks at playing video games because she is a girl.However,when Felicia gets home in the evenings she often animatedly discusses video games in anonymous online chat forums with other gamer enthusiasts.This is an example of

In a cross-cultural study on gazing and eye contact,LaFrance and Mayo (1976)found that

In explaining how big the fish was that he caught on the weekend,Phil spread his hands apart.This is an example of a(n)

When we are describing a person,using an adjective can suggest an attribute of that person (e.g.,Ben is Asian).However,using a noun to describe an individual implies a social group and membership of that group (e.g.,Ben is an Asian).The latter is likely to

In response to Phil's account of his weekend catch,a whopping big cod,Karen simply raises her eyebrows a little.She did not believe too much of it.Her gesture is

Research about sex-differences in touch has indicated that

With regard to gender differences and non-verbal behaviour,it has been found that

One of the fundamental reasons why language and cognition are linked is because

Research on tribal cultures in Borneo and New Guinea by Ekman suggested that

The likelihood of men and women adopting sex-typed speech styles can be influenced by

Communication is important for social psychologists to study because