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Communication Ethics Review Questions
Communication Ethics explores the principles and dilemmas involved in ethical communication across various contexts, including interpersonal, organizational, and mass communication. The course examines foundational ethical theories and applies them to real-world scenarios involving media, journalism, public relations, and digital platforms. Students analyze issues such as truth-telling, privacy, transparency, persuasion, and cultural sensitivity, developing the skills necessary to recognize and navigate ethical challenges in both personal and professional communication. Through case studies and critical discussions, the course emphasizes the importance of ethical decision-making and responsible communication in a diverse and changing society.
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Floyd Interpersonal Communication 2nd Edition by Kory Floyd
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Chapter 1: About Communication
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Q1) Which of the following would be considered an instrumental need that can be met through communication?
A) developing a romantic relationship with someone you find attractive
B) convincing your roommate to turn off her music by midnight each night
C) talking with your grandfather on the telephone after not speaking with him for a while
D) making small talk with a stranger you just met at a party
Answer: B
Q2) Competent communication must be both effective and appropriate.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) A sign in the library that reads "No Talking Allowed" would constitute an example of what?
A) perceptual filter
B) relational dimension
C) explicit rule
D) unintentional communication
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Culture and Gender
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Q1) Which of the following linguistic patterns is associated with powerful speech?
A) disclaimers
B) hedges
C) offering opinions
D) asking questions
Answer: C
Q2) The idea that "all people are created equal" would be characteristic of which type of culture?
A) high-power-distance culture
B) high-context culture
C) low-power-distance culture
D) low-context culture
Answer: C
Q3) Which of the following is true in highly collectivistic cultures?
A) people are expected to look out for themselves
B) people take an indirect approach to handling conflict
C) children are taught that they are special and unique
D) individual achievement is more important than group harmony
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Communication and the Self
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Q1) Scientific studies have confirmed that girls have lower self-esteem than boys.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Which face need refers to our need to be respected for our abilities and intelligence?
A) autonomy face
B) competence face
C) character face
D) fellowship face
Answer: B
Q3) According to the norm of reciprocity, people expect the level of disclosures in their personal relationships to be relatively equivalent.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Fellowship face refers to our need to avoid being imposed upon by others.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Interpersonal Perception
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Q1) Perceptual ability is influenced by social and occupational roles.
A)True
B)False
Q2) People "see" faces in all sorts of natural phenomena, including clouds, tree bark, and even rocks on Mars. That is an example of which perception-making process?
A) egocentrism
B) perceptual set
C) positivity bias
D) recency effect
Q3) According to your text, the perception-making process consists of three stages. Which of the following is NOT among them?
A) interpretation
B) attribution
C) organization
D) selection
Q4) Overattribution is essentially the same thing as the primacy effect.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What is mindfulness and how can we engage that process when making attributions?
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Chapter 5: Language
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Q1) Which of the following statements about smoking is the best example of an appeal to pathos?
A) When you add it all up, smoking costs a person almost $7,000 a year.
B) Smoking is the number one cause of emphysema.
C) Most employers can legally discriminate against smokers.
D) Think about how many lives you're ruining by continuing to smoke.
Q2) The word set has nearly 200 discrete meanings in the English language. Imprecise use of set illustrates which of the following statements about language?
A) Language is often confusing because of multiple connotations.
B) Language can be unclear because of multiple meanings for the same word.
C) Languages around the world do not have a clear definition of referents for words.
D) Language symbols are arbitrary and hard to define.
Q3) This type of language rule deals with the correct pronunciation of words:
A) phonological
B) syntactic
C) semantic
D) pragmatic
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Chapter 6: Nonverbal Communication
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Q1) Which of the following pairs of nonverbal channels is particularly useful in communicating emotion?
A) facial expression and vocal behaviors
B) eye contact and hand gesturing
C) body movement and eye contact
D) vocal behaviors and body movement
Q2) Most Hispanic, southern European, and Middle Eastern cultures are classified as low-contact cultures.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Think about the layout of your home. What do the objects, colors, decorations, and furnishings in your home say about you? In a brief essay, walk through your home and describe important items that "say" something about the image of you they reflect. Make sure to incorporate ideas and concepts about artifacts and space from the class and/or text.
Q4) Most research strongly supports the common notion that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Listening
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Q1) Information overload can impair our ability to listen effectively.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following statements is true about being skeptical?
A) It is the same as being cynical.
B) It is about evaluating the evidence for a claim.
C) Being skeptical is about finding fault with a claim.
D) It harms a listener's credibility.
Q3) Explain the concept of probability. Using concrete examples, illustrate what possibility, probability, and certainty are.
Q4) How are men and women different in the information they attend to while listening?
Q5) Listening non-judgmentally is important for effective critical listening.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Part of effective listening is responding appropriately to what you hear.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Using concrete examples, compare and contrast hearing and listening.
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Q8) What is information overload? Where does it come from and how can it be avoided?
Chapter 8: Social and Personal Relationships
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Q1) People raised in collectivistic cultures typically express more negative emotion to outsiders than do people raised in individualistic cultures.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following emotions has a neutral valence?
A) surprise
B) happiness
C) contentment
D) positivity
Q3) Compare and contrast a) jealousy and envy; b) liking and love; and c) sadness and depression.
Q4) Remorse is a secondary emotion composed of disgust and fear.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Emotions generally last longer than moods.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Define and give examples of Ekman and Friesen's five display rules.
Q7) Identify and briefly define each of the five stages of grief.
Q8) Explain and provide a concrete example of meta-emotion.
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Chapter 9: Family and Intimate Relationships
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Q1) Smoking cigarettes is worse for your health than not having close friendships.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following represents a peer relationship for you?
A) a graduate student instructor who teaches a class you're taking
B) your sister because you are siblings in the same family
C) your boss because he works at the same company as you do
D) your parents because you are from the same family
Q3) Much gets made of the benefits of friendship, but suppose you were asked to argue against having friends. Using what you've learned in this chapter, make a reasoned argument against friendship. Why should people avoid making friends? Your argument should be sound and should make explicit reference to concepts covered in this chapter.
Q4) In the ______________ stage of friendship, people begin to think of themselves as friends and their communication becomes more personal.
A) friendly relations
B) moves toward friendship
C) nascent friendship
D) stabilized friendship
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Chapter 10: Conflict and Power
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Q1) In this marriage type, spouses adopt conventional gender roles and tend to avoid conflict:
A) traditional
B) separate
C) independent
D) mixed
Q2) The experimenting stage of relationship development occurs when people meet and interact for the first time.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Elizabeth and Aaron had been married for six months when Elizabeth started to feel dissatisfied in their relationship. Although Aaron was a nice person and fun to be around, he didn't do any of the cooking or cleaning despite the fact that both of them worked full time. Elizabeth's dissatisfaction was likely due to the fact that:
A) Aaron exhibited a lack of commitment in his behavior.
B) Elizabeth expected an equitable investment in household chores from Aaron.
C) Aaron was enjoying too much interdependence in their relationship.
D) Elizabeth was conflicted by her own dialectical tensions between work and home.
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Chapter 11: Interpersonal Deception
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT one of the common conflict metaphors identified in your textbook?
A) conflict is a war
B) conflict is a dance
C) conflict is a hammer
D) conflict is a game
Q2) All of the following tips are useful for managing a conflict online except:
A) avoid responding right away
B) always respond using the same communication medium
C) clarify comments or statements that aren't clear
D) use emoticons to express your emotional state
Q3) Identify and discuss two cultural dimensions that influence how people manage conflict.
Q4) A relationship between a person of higher power and a person of lesser power is known as:
A) a symmetrical relationship
B) a deficit relationship
C) a contemporary relationship
D) a complementary relationship
Q5) Define and give examples of French and Raven's five forms of power.
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Chapter 12: Emotion
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Q1) One of the most common ways people discover they've been lied to is from third-party information.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following would tend to increase your chances of detecting deception?
A) being lied to by a friend instead of a stranger
B) being lied to by a highly motivated liar
C) being very suspicious
D) being lied to by a very expressive liar
Q3) Deceiving others online is a fairly common practice, especially when it comes to online dating services. Given what you've learned in this chapter and examples from the popular media, discuss some of the dangers inherent in online communication. Next, consider this question: can people ever know that someone is being honest with them online? How can we detect deception in cyberspace?
Q4) Most people are quite good at detecting deception.
A)True
B)False
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