CMST 1061 CORE EXAM MANUAL UPDATED QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Whiteness studies are examples of research conducted in which field of
communication study?
Quiz 3 - ✔✔Intercultural Communication Studies
✔✔According to Wood, the ability to feel with another person is called __________.
Quiz 4 - ✔✔empathy
✔✔Attribution is the act of explaining why something happens or why a person acts a
particular way.
Quiz 4 - ✔✔True
✔✔Catching yourself in the process of self-serving bias is most likely the result of
__________.
Quiz 4 - ✔✔Monitoring
✔✔Cognitive schemata include all of the following EXCEPT __________.
Quiz 4 - ✔✔Abstractions
✔✔Don goes to class on Friday but the instructor is not present. The teaching assistant
announces that the instructor is ill and there will be no class that day. When Don comes
to class on Monday, he notices that students are handing in an assignment to the
instructor. He discovers that the TA told students that even though there was no class
Friday, they had a homework assignment to complete. Don's failure to attend to that
part of the TA's message reflects which aspect of the perception process?
Quiz 4 - ✔✔Selection
✔✔Mind reading is useful for good friends who want to communicate sincerely.
Quiz 4 - ✔✔False
✔✔The ability to perceive another as a unique individual is called __________.
Quiz 4 - ✔✔person-centeredness
✔✔The active process of selecting, organizing and interpreting people, objects, events,
situations, and activities is known as __________
Quiz 4 - ✔✔perception
✔✔When you are tired, stressed, or sick, you are likely to perceive things more
negatively than when you are well rested. This is an example of __________.
Quiz 4 - ✔✔Physiological influences
, ✔✔Which of the following is a prototype?
Quiz 4 - ✔✔the person who is the best example of a co-worker to you
✔✔(This question is based on the supplementary reading "the nature of language") In
the meaning triangle, the ______________ is whatever object, situation, thing, or even
make-believe idea, to which we have assigned a subjective response.
Quiz 5 - ✔✔referent
✔✔(This question is based on the supplementary reading "the nature of language") In
the meaning triangle, the symbol is the internal configuration aroused by either
apprehending the referent itself with our senses or by receiving a cue from another
person.
Quiz 5 - ✔✔False
✔✔(This question is based on the supplementary reading "the nature of language")
Socially agreed-upon labels that we use to identify and arouse conventionalized
meanings stored in schemata within our memory system are called:
Quiz 5 - ✔✔Symbols
✔✔All language is symbolic, yet not all symbols are linguistic.
Quiz 5 - ✔✔True
✔✔Constitutive rules __________.
Quiz 5 - ✔✔define what a particular communication means or stands for
✔✔Institutional facts are the meanings we attach to brute facts based on __________.
Quiz 5 - ✔✔human interpretation
✔✔Nathan laughs when his grandfather describes him as a "cool cat." "That's how we
used to describe someone who is neat, pleasing, good," his grandfather says. "Not
anymore," Nathan replies. This exchange reminds us that language is __________.
Q5 - ✔✔arbitrary
✔✔Negating most of a person by spotlighting a single aspect of his/her identity is known
as __________.
Q5 - ✔✔totalizing
✔✔The verbal symbols we select to use are not intrinsically connected to what they
represent. This is known as __________.
Q5 - ✔✔arbitrariness
✔✔Words that slant perceptions are called __________.
Q5 - ✔✔loaded language
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Whiteness studies are examples of research conducted in which field of
communication study?
Quiz 3 - ✔✔Intercultural Communication Studies
✔✔According to Wood, the ability to feel with another person is called __________.
Quiz 4 - ✔✔empathy
✔✔Attribution is the act of explaining why something happens or why a person acts a
particular way.
Quiz 4 - ✔✔True
✔✔Catching yourself in the process of self-serving bias is most likely the result of
__________.
Quiz 4 - ✔✔Monitoring
✔✔Cognitive schemata include all of the following EXCEPT __________.
Quiz 4 - ✔✔Abstractions
✔✔Don goes to class on Friday but the instructor is not present. The teaching assistant
announces that the instructor is ill and there will be no class that day. When Don comes
to class on Monday, he notices that students are handing in an assignment to the
instructor. He discovers that the TA told students that even though there was no class
Friday, they had a homework assignment to complete. Don's failure to attend to that
part of the TA's message reflects which aspect of the perception process?
Quiz 4 - ✔✔Selection
✔✔Mind reading is useful for good friends who want to communicate sincerely.
Quiz 4 - ✔✔False
✔✔The ability to perceive another as a unique individual is called __________.
Quiz 4 - ✔✔person-centeredness
✔✔The active process of selecting, organizing and interpreting people, objects, events,
situations, and activities is known as __________
Quiz 4 - ✔✔perception
✔✔When you are tired, stressed, or sick, you are likely to perceive things more
negatively than when you are well rested. This is an example of __________.
Quiz 4 - ✔✔Physiological influences
, ✔✔Which of the following is a prototype?
Quiz 4 - ✔✔the person who is the best example of a co-worker to you
✔✔(This question is based on the supplementary reading "the nature of language") In
the meaning triangle, the ______________ is whatever object, situation, thing, or even
make-believe idea, to which we have assigned a subjective response.
Quiz 5 - ✔✔referent
✔✔(This question is based on the supplementary reading "the nature of language") In
the meaning triangle, the symbol is the internal configuration aroused by either
apprehending the referent itself with our senses or by receiving a cue from another
person.
Quiz 5 - ✔✔False
✔✔(This question is based on the supplementary reading "the nature of language")
Socially agreed-upon labels that we use to identify and arouse conventionalized
meanings stored in schemata within our memory system are called:
Quiz 5 - ✔✔Symbols
✔✔All language is symbolic, yet not all symbols are linguistic.
Quiz 5 - ✔✔True
✔✔Constitutive rules __________.
Quiz 5 - ✔✔define what a particular communication means or stands for
✔✔Institutional facts are the meanings we attach to brute facts based on __________.
Quiz 5 - ✔✔human interpretation
✔✔Nathan laughs when his grandfather describes him as a "cool cat." "That's how we
used to describe someone who is neat, pleasing, good," his grandfather says. "Not
anymore," Nathan replies. This exchange reminds us that language is __________.
Q5 - ✔✔arbitrary
✔✔Negating most of a person by spotlighting a single aspect of his/her identity is known
as __________.
Q5 - ✔✔totalizing
✔✔The verbal symbols we select to use are not intrinsically connected to what they
represent. This is known as __________.
Q5 - ✔✔arbitrariness
✔✔Words that slant perceptions are called __________.
Q5 - ✔✔loaded language
