Health Communication Exam Solutions
Course Introduction
Health Communication explores the principles and practices of effective communication within healthcare contexts, emphasizing the role of interpersonal, organizational, and mass communication strategies in promoting public health. The course examines how messages about health and illness are developed, delivered, received, and interpreted across various platforms, including face-to-face interactions, digital media, and public campaigns. Students learn to analyze, design, and evaluate health communication interventions aimed at influencing health behaviors, addressing health disparities, and improving patient-provider relationships. Through case studies and applied projects, participants develop practical skills in crafting clear, ethical, and culturally sensitive health messages that contribute to individual and community well-being.
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Interpersonal Communication 1st Edition by Teri Kwal Gamble
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Chapter 1: Interpersonal Communication: A First Look
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Q1) The more personal a relationship becomes, the more ___________________ the two people become, sharing thoughts and feelings with each other.
Answer: Interdependent
Q2) Our _____________ experiences are influencing our real-life experiences and relationships, and this reality is often sexier or more violent than real life.
Answer: Mediated
Q3) Whenever cultural variability influences the nature and outcomes of interpersonal communication, _____________ is having an effect.
A) Family
B) Knowledge
C) Environment
D) Culture
Answer: C
Q4) Whenever you observe or give meaning to behavior, _______________ is taking place.
Answer: Communication
Q5) No matter how hard we resist, we cannot ____ ___________________.
Answer: Not communicate
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Chapter 2: The Impact of Self-Concept
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Q1) Young people from this culture are almost twice as likely to fear disappointing their parents as are young people from other cultures.
A) Chinese
B) Japanese
C) American
D) German
Answer: B
Q2) Promotion is taking steps to protect our image by reducing the negative aspects of ourselves visible to others.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The extent to which individuals are willing to accept power differentials is called
A) Power distance
B) Power control
C) High priority
D) Exerting control
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Perception
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Q1) Gender, not culture, influences the way we make sense of our experiences.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Name the four constructs that make up our schemata.
Answer: Physical, interaction, role, psychological
Q3) Rigid perceptions that are applied to all members of a group, regardless of individual variation, are called ethnocentricities.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Which group of people has the highest anxiety level about aging (young people, middle-aged people, or older people)?
Answer: Young
Q5) Thinking we know all there is to know about a person, place, or situation is known as ________________.
Answer: Allness
Q6) To avoid treating interpretations as facts, what skill should we develop?
Answer: That of perception checking
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Chapter 4: Listening
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Q1) ___________ tend to spend more time in the speaking role, and ___________ tend to spend more time in the listening role during a conversation.
Q2) "Faking attention" is also known as pseudo-listening.
A)True
B)False
Q3) We accomplish the following when offering supportive feedback:
A) We reduce the importance of the message
B) Reduce intensity of one's feelings
C) We wonder why the person is worrying about it
D) We pass judgment on whoever the person is talking about
Q4) When we indicate that we share another person's perception of a problem as important, we respond using what type of feedback?
Q5) We can center feedback on two different areas; what are those areas?
Q6) Apprehensive listeners are fearful of processing or psychologically adjusting themselves to messages that others send to them.
A)True
B)False
Q7) We rely on our listening skills for many reasons; please list at least two.
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Q8) _____________ do not listen to relay support; they want to solve the problem.
Chapter 5: Communicating with Words
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Q1) ______________________ oriented individuals are easily fooled by words and labels and as a result fail to inspect what the label represents.
Q2) _________________ influences both human thought and meaning, and mediates between symbols and the ideas they represent.
A) Thoughts
B) Words
C) Language
D) Actions
E) Ideas
Q3) When communicating in this venue, we are more apt to share our thoughts without displaying concern for others' feelings.
Q4) Spotlighting tends to diminish stereotyping and leads to the revision of gender stereotypes.
A)True
B)False
Q5) When another person does not understand the denotative meaning of our words, we have a potential ______________ ______________.
Q6) List at least two ways one can be politically incorrect.
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Chapter 6: Nonverbal Communication
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Q1) Words like "uh" and "um" interrupt the natural flow of a conversation and adversely affect how others perceive your competence and confidence.
A)True
B)False
Q2) These "relational icons" increase the expressiveness of written messages by revealing the user's physical or emotional state.
Q3) Human beings cannot not communicate because all behavior has message value.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The more we hone our nonverbal abilities, the more likely we are to be perceived as approachable, socially adjusted, and able to have satisfying relationships.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Unlike their Caucasian counterparts, what ethnic group of women does NOT tend to smile more than men from the same ethnic group?
Q6) Explain why nonverbal behavior seems to carry more "value" in a message than verbal communication.
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Chapter 7: Conversations
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Q1) For this to succeed, one speaker must begin speaking before being yielded the floor.
A) Interruption
B) Argument
C) Consensus
D) Small talk
Q2) According to Turkle, no matter how valuable twitter and Facebook are, they do not substitute for ________________________.
Q3) _________________ is spontaneous conversation; it facilitates our making contact with others.
A) Dialogue
B) Conversational turn taking
C) Conversation
D) Small talk
Q4) It is difficult to merge conversational stages-and still have a productive conversation.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain the analogy of "games and players" as it relates to having a conversation.
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Chapter 8: Emotions
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Q1) How does emotional ineptitude impede relationships?
Q2) Our mind influences our body, and our body influences our mind.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Virtual reality endows us with _____________, which allows us to participate more fully in sensory experiences that elicit feelings and emotions we might have otherwise never experienced.
A) Experiences
B) Telepresence
C) Telekinetic abilities
D) Social networking
Q4) Sadness tends to reduce our energy and metabolism.
A)True
B)False
Q5) This theory describes how we infer and explain the causes of social behavior.
A) Communication
B) Attribution
C) Social learning
D) Attachment style
Q6) Explain the difference between emoticons and emoji icons.
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Chapter 9: Trust and Deception
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Q1) Nelson Mandela believes that ____________ is like drinking poison and waiting for it to kill your enemy.
Q2) The degree to which others fulfill our expectations determines whether we will depend on or trust that person again.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The absence of trust causes reciprocation of disclosers to cease, eventually leading to what?
Q4) This percentage of students confesses to having lied to a parent about something important.
A) 90%
B) 70%
C) 80%
D) 35%
Q5) Character-based sources of trust include integrity, consistency of behavior, and discretion.
A)True
B)False
Q6) How can we repair and rebuild a relationship that has been jeopardized?
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Chapter 10: Power and Influence
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Q1) Beliefs are one's assessment of what is true or false, probable or improbable.
A)True
B)False
Q2) When one has expert power, one can deliver negative consequences to another.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Your interaction with others is facilitated when you understand what three areas of persuasion?
Q4) Each of our ___________ represents a predisposition to react positively or negatively toward others, ideas, things, or situations.
A) Attitudes
B) Feelings
C) Behaviors
D) Ideas
Q5) Explain the term "Machiavellianism" and explain what low scores and high scores mean on that "scale."
Q6) Few relationships imply some degree of reward power.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Conflict
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Q1) Please explain the Social Learning Theory and how it impacts our approach to conflict.
Q2) An example of nonassertive language is which of the following?
A) "Great!"
B) "Um, hey . . . "
C) "I'm fed up with you."
D) "I'm busy."
Q3) Give an example of an interpersonal relationship.
Q4) Because they believe conflict should be avoided in favor of harmony, those with accommodative styles are __________________.
A) Dangerous
B) Wishy-washy
C) Appeasers
D) Argumentative
Q5) In a low-intensity conflict, although each person wants to win, winning itself is seen as sufficient.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Conflicts develop for what reasons? (Please list at least three.)
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Q7) Conflicts that are _____________ tend to damage or destroy relationships.
Chapter 12: Relationship Dynamics
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Q1) When the contacts that we have with a single person vary, our relationship typically has greater breadth.
A)True
B)False
Q2) One of the most popular relationship turnoffs is appearing lazy.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Relationships that are successful often preserve our _____________________.
A) Physical health
B) Happiness
C) Mental health
D) All of the above
Q4) The more closely people live, the __________________________.
A) More they will get along
B) More likely they can come to dislike one another
C) More they will get to know one another on an intimate level
D) More likely they will become close friends
E) More likely they will become other-oriented
Q5) Female friendships center on sharing ___________________ and developing loyalty and trust.
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Chapter 13: Intimacy and Distance in Relationships
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Q1) Approximately _______ of relationship abuse is perpetrated by males against females.
A) 68%
B) 75%
C) 85%
D) 47%
Q2) Similar attitudes about intimacy and disclosure can be found across cultures.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Among this group, self-disclosure is a measure of closeness.
A) Japanese
B) Asian
C) Western cultures
D) Eastern cultures
Q4) Each day ________ women die from violence committed by persons close to them.
A) 18
B) 26
C) 5
D) 4
E) 12
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Chapter 14: Relationships in Our Lives: Family, Work, and
Health-Related Contexts
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Q1) Mentoring top managers to use such technology as social media sites or e-mail is known as a practice called ______________________.
Q2) Children in the United States are taught from an early age to place more value on ______________ ___________________ or initiative.
Q3) Generally, communication is done in "side-by-side" arrangement-avoiding eye contact-in this culture.
A) American
B) Korean
C) Asian
D) Arabic
Q4) Keystones of effective interpersonal communication include all of the following except:
A) Verbalization
B) Problem solving
C) Joint decision making
D) Constructive observation
E) Criticism
Q5) Individualism is no longer dominant in successful organizations; what is seen as more important?
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