Deck 11: The Effects of Vocal Cues That Accompany Spoken Words

Question 1

Listeners are unable to perceive a smile in the voice by listening alone.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Fernando and Graham are talking.At one point,Graham completes a story by letting the pitch of his voice drop at the end of his statement.Which turn behavior is Graham most likely performing with his drop in pitch?

A)turn-requesting
B)turn-maintaining
C)turn-denying
D)turn-yielding

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Edgar is going to be presenting a training program to a group of new employees.This vocal characteristic of his will negatively impact their comprehension of his presentation.

A)dysfluencies
B)monotone pitch
C)mispronunciations
D)poor vocal quality

Answer 3

B

Question 4

How do researchers design a study to eliminate the influence of meaningful speech?

A)using meaningless content
B)just ignore the content
C)use electronic filtering
D)All the above can be employed.

Question 5

A group of students are rating Ginger's personality,based upon her vocal characteristics.Which of the following vocal characteristics will result in the most consistently negative perceptions of Ginger's personality?

A)nasality
B)increased rate
C)breathiness
D)increased pitch variety

Question 6

A pause in which some kind of phonation occurs is called an unfilled pause.

Question 7

Which of the following is not an effective way to "keep the floor" when speaking?

A)increase volume and rate
B)increase the frequency of filled pauses
C)decrease volume and rate
D)All of these are effective ways to "keep the floor" when speaking.

Question 8

In which of the following dimensions do judges use vocal cues to make remarkably accurate classifications?

A)sex
B)age
C)social class
D)Judges are remarkably accurate on all of these dimensions.

Question 9

Silence can be used to draw attention to words and ideas.

Question 10

Which one of the following is a true statement?

A)Early research focused on speech content before delivery.
B)We can speak faster than we can process what we hear.
C)The typical person has average skills interpreting nonverbal turn taking cues.
D)Spontaneous speech is very fragmented and disfluent.

Question 11

Monique just received the exciting news she has been offered a scholarship to the graduate program that is her first choice.Her joyful emotion will not be characterized by __________.

A)stuttering
B)faster rate
C)more volume
D)higher pitch

Question 12

Echolalia is one of the speech cues associated with the diagnosis of Major Depression with Catatonic features.

Question 13

A spectrogram is a visual picture of a person's speech.

Question 14

The physical mechanism for producing sounds is called paralanguage.

Question 15

Diana is an extraverted person.According to your text,which one of the following vocal characteristics will Diana likely exhibit?

A)more dysfluency in speech
B)slower rate of speaking
C)louder speech
D)less variability in pitch

Question 16

Which of the following is an acoustic property that researchers often measure?

A)speech rate
B)fundamental frequency
C)intensity
D)All of these properties are measured.