COM 100 FINAL UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

COM 100 FINAL UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS

Question:
1. The three communication models (transmission, interaction, and transaction) do not share any common
elements.
Answer:
False

Question:
2. Trish comes home from a long day at school. She begins to think reflectively on the day she had and
internally vocalize what went right and what went wrong. What type of communication is this?
Answer:
Interpersonal communication

Question:
3. Stating ideas clearly, identifying one's communication goals, and listening attentively are skills that
professional organizations have identified for college students to be able to do by the time they graduate?
Answer:
True

Question:
4. In western societies, public communication is more _____ focused than interpersonal or group
communication.
Answer:
Sender

Question:
5. Fear or anxiety experienced by a person due to actual or imagined communication with another person
or persons is known as communication what?
Answer:
Apprehension

Question:
6. Which of these two processes describes communication as a linear, one-way process?
Answer:
Transmission

Question:
7. Which of these two models incorporates feedback into the process of communication?
Answer:
Interaction

Question:
8. The sound of a motorcycle running through a neighborhood is an example of:

,Answer:
Environmental noise

Question:
9. ______ are social conventions that we pick up through observation, practice, and trial and error.
Answer:
Norms

Question:
10. What most distinguishes mass communication messages from other forms of communication?
Answer:
Technology

Question:
11. According to communication scholars, in which form of communication do we spend the most time
engaged?
Answer:
Interpersonal

Question:
12. Which of the following is NOT true about the transaction model of communication?
Answer:
This model suggests that participants alternate positions as sender and receiver.

Question:
13. Pete has been studying intercultural communication for several years. He just returned from a two-year
sojourn from a foreign country and really finds it easy to communicate successfully without straining to be
competent. What stage of competence is he most likely experiencing?
Answer:
Unconscious competence

Question:
14. Social variables such as status and power affect competence.
Answer:
True

Question:
15. Group communication involves achieving a shared ______.
Answer:
Goal

Question:
16. One of these two models is sender and message focused. Which one is it?
Answer:
Transmission

, Question:
17. Which of these models is an extension of a linear model proposed by Aristotle?
Answer:
Transmission

Question:
18. If you know how to study well for an exam, but you are not able to actually exercise that knowledge
when it comes time for your finals, you lack what part of the definition of communication competence?
Answer:
Ability to use

Question:
19. Poor _____ skills were shown to contribute significantly to failure in a person's first year of college?
Answer:
listening

Question:
20. Stress, anxiety, and emotions are examples of:
Answer:
Psychological context

Question:
21. Culture is a static category; it never changes.
Answer:
False

Question:
22. Ethnicity refers to a person's
Answer:
Ancestral heritage

Question:
23. Sexual identity is communicated through all of the following except
Answer:
intuition

Question:
24. Our membership in communities that define our identities is only voluntary.
Answer:
False

Question:
25. Ethnicity and communication are often related through
Answer:
Family traditions language ways of being in the world