Deck 3: Nonverbal Communication

Question 1

Technology does not influence our ability to understand nonverbal codes.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

The codes of chronemics, olfactics, and haptics are part of the invisible communication system.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

There are real differences in the way men and women perform and interpret nonverbal communication.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

People from polychronic cultures work on several tasks at once and view time as flexible.

Question 5

While the cultural ideal for American women is thinness, traditional African cultures equate full-figured bodies as being healthy, prosperous, and wealthy.

Question 6

The way humans organize and structure time is called __________.

A)proxemics
B)paralinguistics
C)haptics
D)chronemics

Question 7

In the United States middle class, Caucasian women tend to smile more than African American women.

Question 8

What is the correct order using touch in the least intimate to the most intimate relationships?

A)social/polite, friendship/warmth, functional/professional, love/intimacy, sexual arousal
B)friendship/warmth, social/polite, functional/professional, love/intimacy, sexual arousal
C)friendship/warmth, social/polite, love/intimacy, functional/professional, sexual arousal
D)functional/professional, social/polite, friendship/warmth, love/intimacy, sexual arousal

Question 9

When we rely on nonverbal codes instead of verbal ones we are using __________.

A)repetition
B)complementation
C)substitutions
D)regulation

Question 10

Many Americans stand and converse with strangers at closer distances than do people from the Middle East.