Question 1

According to the social constructionist perspective, we experience the world indirectly through cultural blinders.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

The three functions of models are

Accepted Answer

A)  primary, secondary, tertiary. 
B)  explanation, prediction, control. 
C)  psychological, sociological, philosophical. 
D)  encoding, decoding, transmitting.

Question 3

People who take a cultural studies perspective to communication

Accepted Answer

A)  are interested in exploring the individual psychology of communicators. 
B)  focus on the cultural background of communicators. 
C)  are interested in interaction rather than personality. 
D)  are interested in uncovering the hidden power relations that often exist in mediated texts.

Question 4

A mental set consists of

Accepted Answer

A)  a psychological test of communication style. 
B)  all the people a person communicates with. 
C)  a set of patterned interactions. 
D)  a person's beliefs, attitudes, values, and feelings.

Question 5

Dell Hymes' model of communication is a description of the processes speakers go through to construct and present speeches.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

According to the pragmatic perspective, communication will be most successful when the mental sets of individual communicators are similar.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Which of the following ways of understanding a city is an example of a model?

Accepted Answer

A)  a street map of the city 
B)  an organizational chart of the city government 
C)  a scale model of the city 
D)  All are examples of models

Question 8

According to a laws approach to research

Accepted Answer

A)  humans choose to follow the lines of action given by their cultures; research should describe the norms and roles they follow. 
B)  human behavior is governed by invariant cause and effect relationships; research should discover these relationships. 
C)  research should describe patterns of behavior rather than looking for either social norms or causal relationships. 
D)  All of the above

Question 9

The most widely used models and definitions of communication are based on the psychological perspective.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

The perspective that places the most emphasis on behavioral patterns is

Accepted Answer

A)  psychological perspective. 
B)  social constructionist perspective. 
C)  pragmatic perspective. 
D)  semiotic perspective.

Question 11

Dance believes communication is not a single concept but rather a series of related concepts.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Of the following definitions, the one that implies that communication is intentional is

Accepted Answer

A)  communication is a process of acting on information. 
B)  communication is the discriminatory response of an organism to a stimulus. 
C)  communication has as its central interest those behavioral situations in which a source transmits a message to a receiver with conscious intent to affect the latter's behaviors. 
D)  speech communication is a process through which people make sense of the world.

Question 13

Which of the following elements are part of the social constructionist perspective?

Accepted Answer

A)  act, interact, payoff, pattern 
B)  symbolic codes, cognitive customs, cultural traditions 
C)  sender/receiver, message, channel, encoding/decoding 
D)  ends, keys, instrumentalities, norms

Question 14

What is a perspective? What are the three perspectives discussed in the text? How are they different from one another?

Accepted Answer

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Question 15

According to the pragmatic perspective we can improve communication by

Accepted Answer

A)  recognizing that because we create reality by talking about it, we should take responsibility for our talk. 
B)  learning to see things from the receivers' point of view. 
C)  encoding messages as clearly as possible. 
D)  describing and understanding destructive patterns.

Question 16

A broad definition of communication is one that identifies a large number of phenomena as communication (rather than limiting the range of phenomena that count as communication.)

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

The perspective that compares communication to an intricate game is the social constructionist perspective.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

The perspective that focuses on uncovering ways in which cultural texts support oppression is called the pragmatic perspective.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

Which of the following elements are part of the psychological perspective?

Accepted Answer

A)  Act, interact, payoff, pattern 
B)  Symbolic codes, cognitive customs, cultural traditions 
C)  Sender/receiver, message, channel, encoding/decoding 
D)  Ends, keys, instrumentalities, norms

Question 20

What is a model? What are three functions of models? What are three drawbacks to models?

Accepted Answer

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Exam 2: Definitions, Models, and Perspectives

According to the social constructionist perspective, we experience the world indirectly through cultural blinders.

The three functions of models are

People who take a cultural studies perspective to communication

A mental set consists of

Dell Hymes' model of communication is a description of the processes speakers go through to construct and present speeches.

According to the pragmatic perspective, communication will be most successful when the mental sets of individual communicators are similar.

Which of the following ways of understanding a city is an example of a model?

According to a laws approach to research

The most widely used models and definitions of communication are based on the psychological perspective.

The perspective that places the most emphasis on behavioral patterns is

Dance believes communication is not a single concept but rather a series of related concepts.

Of the following definitions, the one that implies that communication is intentional is

Which of the following elements are part of the social constructionist perspective?

What is a perspective? What are the three perspectives discussed in the text? How are they different from one another?

According to the pragmatic perspective we can improve communication by

A broad definition of communication is one that identifies a large number of phenomena as communication (rather than limiting the range of phenomena that count as communication.)

The perspective that compares communication to an intricate game is the social constructionist perspective.

The perspective that focuses on uncovering ways in which cultural texts support oppression is called the pragmatic perspective.

Which of the following elements are part of the psychological perspective?

What is a model? What are three functions of models? What are three drawbacks to models?