CMN 122 - Exam 1 Questions With Complete Solutions
(-): increased gaze —> decreased gaze Correct Answers
(compensatory response)/ hostile situation/ a fight/ they are
being creepy/ context makes a big difference in the interactive
response of receiving eye gaze
(= or +): increased gaze —> increased gaze Correct Answers
(reciprocal response)/ positive or neutral (not negative)
ADAPTORS Correct Answers manage our emotional arousal/
don't want to be over or under emotionally aroused/ might do
these to bring down or up the emotional arousal/ touching you
face, slapping yourself in the face/ self-adaptors: use your own
body to manage emotional arousal/ object-adaptors: use an
object to manage that emotional arousal
Artifacts: badge emblem Correct Answers ex: police badge—
you know this person is in law enforcement
Artifacts: jewelry as emblematic communication Correct
Answers * look at certain jewelry and know exactly what is
means/ ex: wedding wing, superbowl ring, promise rings,
graduation ring
Artifacts: tattoo emblems Correct Answers ex: teardrop tattoo—
you've done time in prison, you've killed someone, you've lost
someone you deeply cared for/ depends on the context/ for the
group that it's in, it's very clear what it means
,ASPECTS OF MEANING IN NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR :
SHARED ENCODING-DECODING Correct Answers ARE
THERE BEHAVIORS WHOSE MEANING SENDERS AND
RECEIVERS CONSISTENTLY AGREE ON?
does the intention match the interpretation/ ex: obscene gestures
(middle finger: interpretation matches intent because you know
what that means)
ASPECTS OF MEANING IN NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR:
INTENTION (ENCODING) Correct Answers WHAT ARE
PEOPLE'S INTENTIONS WHEN THEY EMIT THIS
BEHAVIOR?
WHAT are these people trying to communication/ they are
doing it so they are encoding it/ ex: someone showing a certain
face expression to you and what is there intent? do they want to
show you they are happy/sad?/ need to know that there intent is/
ASPECTS OF MEANING IN NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR:
INTERACTIVE Correct Answers ARE THERE BEHAVIORS
THAT HAVE A RELIABLE BEHAVIORAL EFFECT ON
OTHERS?
determine if it is interactive?/ are there behaviors that cause a
consistent response in the other person/ once we see that it starts
to tell us what that nonverbal means/ ex: dr. brunner was living
in Italy; guy gets on the bus and sat right next to him even
thought the bus was basically empty and he could of sat
anywhere else/ if this happened in America, it would be
consistent because we could see everyone else leaning away
from the other person and if we watch that we can determine
that everyone would feel uncomfortable
,ASPECTS OF MEANING IN NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR:
PERCEPTION/INTERPRETATION (DECODING) Correct
Answers HOW DO RECEIVERS OF THIS BEHAVIOR
INTERPRET IT?
what does that mean? what am I interpreting from that nonverbal
behavior/ we get an idea of what nonverbals mean based on that
interpretation
Behavioral terminology: gaze aversion Correct Answers
choosing not to look someone in the face/ may feel
overwhelmed, they could be yelling at us, cognitively could be
too much
Behavioral terminology: gaze or faced-directed gaze Correct
Answers only one person is looking the other person in the face/
looking in the direction of your face
Behavioral terminology: mutual gaze Correct Answers both
people are looking at each other in the face/ doesn't last very
long/ very intimate thing to do
being observed —> increased arousal Correct Answers
someone is looking at me or someone is stalking me = heart rate
increase, arousal
BODY FOCUSED GESTURES Correct Answers (e.g., self-
adaptors) = discomfort, nervousness/ not expressive of object
but shows how we handle our nervousness
CHANNELS OF NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR: APPEARANCE
AND ADORNMENT Correct Answers the clothes you wear
, communicates things/ length of body, length of hair/ ex: having
pink skin shows someone that that person did not wear
sunscreen/ olfactic: how we smell/ ex: perfumes, soap, natural
smell, artificial smell
CHANNELS OF NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR: CONTACT
CODES Correct Answers how we use space to communicate/
first part: proxemics (the space between things)/ second part:
haptics (study of touching others—touching someone there is 0
space between them and is still a contact code because we are
talking about that space)/ third part is about territoriality: about
the space that people occupy; where you live (bedroom, office)/
ex: having posters up on your walls shows what you like or
having laundry everywhere shows that you are a messy person
CHANNELS OF NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR: KINESICS
Correct Answers talking about nonverbal messages that we
send through our body/ anything with hand gestures/ posture we
have (slouched, up straight, leaning in, leaning back)/ eye gaze
(oculasics)
CHANNELS OF NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR: TIME AND
PLACE CODES Correct Answers very broad large context/
pronemics (time): time throughout the day is different/ ex: if
there is a friends with benefits relationship and they text
you "Hey what's up" during the day versus at night, they
will have different meanings/ environmental cues
CHANNELS OF NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR: VOCALICS
Correct Answers paralanguage/ the sounds of voice that we
make/ not about words that we say but how we say the words/
(-): increased gaze —> decreased gaze Correct Answers
(compensatory response)/ hostile situation/ a fight/ they are
being creepy/ context makes a big difference in the interactive
response of receiving eye gaze
(= or +): increased gaze —> increased gaze Correct Answers
(reciprocal response)/ positive or neutral (not negative)
ADAPTORS Correct Answers manage our emotional arousal/
don't want to be over or under emotionally aroused/ might do
these to bring down or up the emotional arousal/ touching you
face, slapping yourself in the face/ self-adaptors: use your own
body to manage emotional arousal/ object-adaptors: use an
object to manage that emotional arousal
Artifacts: badge emblem Correct Answers ex: police badge—
you know this person is in law enforcement
Artifacts: jewelry as emblematic communication Correct
Answers * look at certain jewelry and know exactly what is
means/ ex: wedding wing, superbowl ring, promise rings,
graduation ring
Artifacts: tattoo emblems Correct Answers ex: teardrop tattoo—
you've done time in prison, you've killed someone, you've lost
someone you deeply cared for/ depends on the context/ for the
group that it's in, it's very clear what it means
,ASPECTS OF MEANING IN NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR :
SHARED ENCODING-DECODING Correct Answers ARE
THERE BEHAVIORS WHOSE MEANING SENDERS AND
RECEIVERS CONSISTENTLY AGREE ON?
does the intention match the interpretation/ ex: obscene gestures
(middle finger: interpretation matches intent because you know
what that means)
ASPECTS OF MEANING IN NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR:
INTENTION (ENCODING) Correct Answers WHAT ARE
PEOPLE'S INTENTIONS WHEN THEY EMIT THIS
BEHAVIOR?
WHAT are these people trying to communication/ they are
doing it so they are encoding it/ ex: someone showing a certain
face expression to you and what is there intent? do they want to
show you they are happy/sad?/ need to know that there intent is/
ASPECTS OF MEANING IN NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR:
INTERACTIVE Correct Answers ARE THERE BEHAVIORS
THAT HAVE A RELIABLE BEHAVIORAL EFFECT ON
OTHERS?
determine if it is interactive?/ are there behaviors that cause a
consistent response in the other person/ once we see that it starts
to tell us what that nonverbal means/ ex: dr. brunner was living
in Italy; guy gets on the bus and sat right next to him even
thought the bus was basically empty and he could of sat
anywhere else/ if this happened in America, it would be
consistent because we could see everyone else leaning away
from the other person and if we watch that we can determine
that everyone would feel uncomfortable
,ASPECTS OF MEANING IN NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR:
PERCEPTION/INTERPRETATION (DECODING) Correct
Answers HOW DO RECEIVERS OF THIS BEHAVIOR
INTERPRET IT?
what does that mean? what am I interpreting from that nonverbal
behavior/ we get an idea of what nonverbals mean based on that
interpretation
Behavioral terminology: gaze aversion Correct Answers
choosing not to look someone in the face/ may feel
overwhelmed, they could be yelling at us, cognitively could be
too much
Behavioral terminology: gaze or faced-directed gaze Correct
Answers only one person is looking the other person in the face/
looking in the direction of your face
Behavioral terminology: mutual gaze Correct Answers both
people are looking at each other in the face/ doesn't last very
long/ very intimate thing to do
being observed —> increased arousal Correct Answers
someone is looking at me or someone is stalking me = heart rate
increase, arousal
BODY FOCUSED GESTURES Correct Answers (e.g., self-
adaptors) = discomfort, nervousness/ not expressive of object
but shows how we handle our nervousness
CHANNELS OF NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR: APPEARANCE
AND ADORNMENT Correct Answers the clothes you wear
, communicates things/ length of body, length of hair/ ex: having
pink skin shows someone that that person did not wear
sunscreen/ olfactic: how we smell/ ex: perfumes, soap, natural
smell, artificial smell
CHANNELS OF NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR: CONTACT
CODES Correct Answers how we use space to communicate/
first part: proxemics (the space between things)/ second part:
haptics (study of touching others—touching someone there is 0
space between them and is still a contact code because we are
talking about that space)/ third part is about territoriality: about
the space that people occupy; where you live (bedroom, office)/
ex: having posters up on your walls shows what you like or
having laundry everywhere shows that you are a messy person
CHANNELS OF NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR: KINESICS
Correct Answers talking about nonverbal messages that we
send through our body/ anything with hand gestures/ posture we
have (slouched, up straight, leaning in, leaning back)/ eye gaze
(oculasics)
CHANNELS OF NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR: TIME AND
PLACE CODES Correct Answers very broad large context/
pronemics (time): time throughout the day is different/ ex: if
there is a friends with benefits relationship and they text
you "Hey what's up" during the day versus at night, they
will have different meanings/ environmental cues
CHANNELS OF NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR: VOCALICS
Correct Answers paralanguage/ the sounds of voice that we
make/ not about words that we say but how we say the words/
