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Speech Communication explores the principles and practices of effective oral communication in both formal and informal settings. This course covers essential topics such as audience analysis, speech organization, delivery techniques, and the use of visual aids. Students will develop their public speaking skills through a variety of presentations and receive constructive feedback aimed at building confidence and clarity in their communication. Emphasis is placed on critical listening, ethical communication, and adapting messages to diverse audiences, equipping students with the foundational skills necessary for professional, academic, and everyday interactions.
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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) No matter how hard we resist, we cannot ____ ___________________.
Answer: Not communicate
Q2) During interpersonal contacts as we share information, we reduce the amount of uncertainty in our lives.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) ______________________ is the ongoing, ever-changing process that occurs when you interact with another person forming a dyad.
Answer: Interpersonal communication
Q4) True or False A textbook cover, preface, or introduction serves as an example of a kind of feedback called "feedforward."
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q5) Sending and receiving messages involve the use of the five senses.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: The Impact of Self-Concept
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Q1) When self-esteem is connected to performance, it can be self-defeating.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Our _____________ is a composite of how we see ourselves, how we wish we saw ourselves, and how we imagine others see us.
Answer: Photo/picture
Q3) The experiences we have during our formative years influence our views of masculinity and femininity, affecting our identities in later years.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) In an effort to learn more about ourselves, we use others as measuring sticks, and then we evaluate ourselves based on how we think we measure up to them. This is known as what theory?
Answer: Social Comparison Theory
Q5) Approximately how many people, while predominantly female, are diagnosed with anorexia nervosa?
Answer: 100,000
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Chapter 3: Perception
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Q1) When we assume people stay the way we are, we make frozen evaluations.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Heavy television viewers are more likely to be fearful and to exaggerate the amount of violence in the world than are light viewers. This is an explanation of what theory?
Answer: Cultivation
Q3) When we mistake what we infer for what we observe, we experience _______________________________________.
Answer: Fact inference confusion
Q4) When we organize the stimuli we perceive uniquely, we are creating perceptual sets.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q5) We usually reproduce what we store in our memory.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Listening
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Q1) Why is it important to "maintain" attention, and not just "capture" it during a conversation? What's the difference?
Q2) By questioning and paraphrasing, you check your perception and ensure that you accurately comprehend how the person feels.
A)True
B)False
Q3) ________________________________ provides you with information and insights that enable you to exercise better judgment.
A) Critical listening
B) Careful listening.
C) Active listening
D) Decision making
Q4) __________________ involves our willingness to focus on and organize particular stimuli.
A) Remembering
B) Understanding
C) Attending
D) Responding
Q5) _____________ do not listen to relay support; they want to solve the problem.
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Chapter 5: Communicating with Words
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Q1) It is often easy to find "opposite" or "polarized" words when describing someone or some situation. (For example, we are either happy or sad.) Please explain why those words in the middle are much easier to identify.
Q2) The prevalence of ____________________ may cause us to speak in shorter sentences and, eventually, wipe out spoken conversation.
Q3) We use language only to shape and express our attitudes.
A)True
B)False
Q4) When communicating in this venue, we are more apt to share our thoughts without displaying concern for others' feelings.
Q5) Understanding and respecting another person's mode of expression, regardless of whether we share the grammatical conventions, is important.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Euphemisms are unique vocabularies used by particular groups.
A)True
B)False
Q7) We more frequently define ___________ by their appearance and relationships.
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Chapter 6: Nonverbal Communication
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Q1) According to Buller and Burgoon's Interpersonal Deception Theory, you have only one choice to make when faced with the option to deceive.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Sometimes we are unaware of the nonverbal cues we send; as a result, we inadvertently reveal information we would rather conceal.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The ___________ is the main channel we use to decipher the feelings of others.
A) Voice
B) Face
C) Eyes
D) Tone of voice
Q4) Human beings cannot not communicate because all behavior has message value.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Which function of nonverbal communication do you feel is most important in your quest to improve your nonverbal communication? Please explain why.
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Chapter 7: Conversations
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Q1) The manner maxim asks that we not go off on tangents or purposefully digress and switch subjects while our partner still wants to talk about the same topic.
A)True
B)False
Q2) During this stage in a conversation, we consider the effect that our conversation has had on each of us and, based on our assessment of the other person's response, we may decide to adjust or alter our message and strengthen or modify our content.
A) Preliminary processing
B) Greeting
C) Topic priming
D) Closing
Q3) To facilitate interaction with people whose cultural background or gender differs from your own, you need to do the following:
A) Open yourselves to and respect the differences that exist
B) Maintain a flexible rather than rigid outlook
C) Both A and B
D) Neither A nor B
Q4) How does a dialogue contribute to an effective conversation?
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Chapter 8: Emotions
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Q1) This allows us to recognize our emotions and manage them by finding ways to handle such feelings as fear, anxiety, and sadness.
A) Interpersonal communication
B) Interpersonal intelligence
C) Intrapersonal intelligence
D) Intrapersonal communication
Q2) How does emotional ineptitude impede relationships?
Q3) We are more likely to do what we have seen; this is the result of viewing the ____________ models that surround us.
Q4) If we can figure out what triggers a particular emotion, we tend to be more specific when we talk about it.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Monitoring our emotions is critical for developing self-worth.
A)True
B)False
Q6) How does Botox affect our ability to express emotions?
Q7) _______________________ emotions typically get in the way of our development of a healthy relationship.
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Chapter 9: Trust and Deception
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Q1) Our romantic partner is the person to whom we are mostly likely to tell our biggest lies.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which characteristic does NOT occur when you trust another person?
A) Engagement in personal disclosures
B) Willingness to be vulnerable
C) Confidence that others will know of situation shared
D) Confidence in person's dependability
E) Belief in predicting other's response
Q3) _________________ feelings often impede the personalization of communication, which makes the satisfying conversation of self-disclosure difficult.
Q4) The degree to which others fulfill our expectations determines whether we will depend on or trust that person again.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What are the two main reasons-or results-that we strive for when lying?
Q6) The amount of trust we place in another is largely based on our ___________ of that person's character.
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Chapter 10: Power and Influence
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Q1) Few relationships imply some degree of reward power.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Forms of sexual harassment include all of the following except:
A) Receiving unwelcome sexual photos via text or e-mail
B) Inappropriate touching
C) Complimenting one's hair-once
D) Having sexual rumors spread about you
E) Sexual comments or jokes
Q3) We rarely test the balance of power in our relationships.
A)True
B)False
Q4) "The norm of reciprocity . . . often elicits compliance." What does that statement mean, and how does it relate to interpersonal communication?
Q5) The more fulfilling we find a relationship, the more we perceive it to have reward power.
A)True
B)False
Q6) How are minority men and women often viewed in the media?
Q7) List at least three forces that influence our attitudes.
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Chapter 11: Conflict
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Q1) ________________ tend to pursue their own self-interests without orienting themselves to a partner's perspectives.
A) Males
B) Females
C) Older people
D) Teenagers
Q2) This behavior occurs when one saves all complaints and brings them all up in one conversation.
A) Hoarding
B) Gunnysacking
C) Arguing
Q3) Two types of goals that help to identify conflict are which of the following?
A) Shareable, nonshareable
B) Pseudo, simple
C) Ego, value
D) None of the above
Q4) Explain what DESC Script stands for-and its purpose.
Q5) Competing with, even striving to defeat another person we are in conflict with, is common in what country?
Q6) How can one stop flaming from occurring?
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Chapter 12: Relationship Dynamics
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Q1) During this stage, we announce our commitment to one another in a public ritual, one which also lets the world in on the exclusiveness of our relationship.
A) Wedding
B) Public ceremony
C) Integrating
D) Bonding
Q2) What percentage of heterosexual couples met online between 2007-2009?
A) 21%
B) 24%
C) 32%
D) 61%
Q3) During this stage, two people may share a common space-but they do not share one another's goals or values.
Q4) Feeling close and connected is called manifest destiny.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Relationships help to meet two personal attributes; what are they?
Q6) Women's friendships emphasize face-to-face interactions, and men's friendships emphasize ______________________ interactions.
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Chapter 13: Intimacy and Distance in Relationships
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Q1) Cultural norms that lead us to believe that abuse doled out by a male is acceptable include all of the following except:
A) Aggressive behavior
B) Controlling behavior
C) Dominance
D) Loyalty
Q2) During this grief stage, one regrets anything he/she may have said or done to hurt the person who has died.
A) Anger
B) Denial
C) Guilt
D) Depression
Q3) The satisfactory development of a relationship depends on what?
Q4) As a relationship's strength grows, partners become more secure and feel more pressure to reciprocate every relationship contribution.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Draw at least two comparisons between the Johari Window model and the social penetration model.
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Chapter 14: Relationships in Our Lives: Family, Work, and
Health-Related Contexts
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Q1) When handling conflict, we must utilize effective problem-solving and conflict resolution techniques. As you do this, what rules should you follow to foster perception sharing?
Q2) In 2011, how many women reported an episode of sexual harassment?
A) One in five
B) One in three
C) One in ten
D) One in four
Q3) Why would ascribing to a "national work culture" be ineffective?
Q4) Definitions of family need to be flexible and reflective of the diverse forms of contemporary families.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Families develop rules, beliefs, and rituals in isolation.
A)True
B)False
Q6) How does increased sharing of tasks by males and females correlate with increased disclosure and relationship maintenance?
Q7) How well groups work depends, in part, on these abilities.
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