Exam 4: Understanding Nonverbal Messages

When Keri wanted Ben to stop talking, she averted her eyes and turned her back. The function of this behavior was to _____.

The zone that Hall defined as public space begins at _____ feet.

Benito enters a coffeehouse and places his book, his laptop and his coffee in an arrangement around the table where he plans to work on this paper for his intercultural communication class. These items are being used to serve as which of the following?

According to Mehrabian, dominance cues indicate status, position, and importance.

Marcela started working for a new company. At her previous workplace, people were formal and distant in their communication. Therefore, Marcela was surprised to find that her new boss, whom Marcela thought to be a competent individual, often pulled up a chair close to her desk when she was explaining company procedures. Although this violated Marcela's idea of how people communicate in the workplace, it did not seem to bother her and in fact she began to use a closer distance when communicating with her boss. Explain what Marcela experienced using Burgoon's expectancy violations model.

Explain what your book means by the "nonlinguistic" nature of nonverbal communication.

Nonverbal communication is continuous.

Describe at least three of the six functions of nonverbal messages.

Communicating your thoughts and emotions with your voice (aside from the words that you use) is referred to as _____.

The study by Lamberg and Muratori showed that texting while walking does not affect how straight a person walks.

Territorial markers are sometimes used to show where our own space ends and another's begins.

What is involved in the study of haptics?

Differentiate between intimate and personal space.

Kinesics includes the effect of time on the body.

Explain and give examples of the three dimensions that Mehrabian found we use to accurately interpret nonverbal behaviors.

Mutual eye contact, smiling, and leaning forward are all examples of immediacy behaviors.

The librarian whispered to the students that only talking quietly was allowed. By whispering her message to emphasize her point, the librarian was using a nonverbal cue to ___ her message.