COMM 216 ALL FINAL EXAMS ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Communication theory of identity - ✔✔Illustrates how individuals make assumptions
about each other based on their backgrounds, and helps explain how
misunderstandings occur in the medical context
✔✔Salience of identity - ✔✔The importance of one identity in relation to others
✔✔Avowed vs. ascribed identity - ✔✔The identity you claim for yourself vs. the identity
that is given/assigned by others
✔✔Frames of identity - ✔✔Personal, enactment, relational, and communal
✔✔Sojourning - ✔✔The temporary move from one's own culture to a new one
✔✔U-curve - ✔✔Honeymoon, crisis, recovery, and adjustment
✔✔Culture shock - ✔✔A state of confusion, anxiety, stress, or loss felt when one
encounters a culture that has little in common with one's own
✔✔Assimilating - ✔✔The process of adapting to fit into or conform to a new group or
culture
✔✔Socialization - ✔✔How members learn the values, norms, and behaviors needed to
fulfill their roles within a group or organization; can help one assimilate into a group
✔✔Encounter and metamorphosis - ✔✔Learning more about the group and becoming
more acquainted with the rules/norms; new members alter their behaviors and even
come to accept such changes
✔✔Acculturation - ✔✔The progression through which individuals adapt their own
cultural identities and norms to fit into another culture, which is often the dominant or
mainstream culture of a region or country
, ✔✔Enculturation vs. deculturation - ✔✔How we learn our own culture as we grow up vs.
how we unlearn certain aspects of our cultures to fit into a new one
✔✔Adjustment vs. adaptation - ✔✔A short-term state of reducing an uncertainty to meet
a need vs. a long-term process that prompts someone to evolve to fit an environment
✔✔Verbal vs. non-verbal communication - ✔✔Both our words and our verbal fillers vs.
all the ways we communicate without the use of words
✔✔Digital vs. analogic communication - ✔✔Communication through the use of symbols
vs. communication through likeness or similarity
✔✔Leakage clues - ✔✔Signs that give away information the speaker wishes to conceal
verbally is spilling out nonverbally
✔✔Linguistic relativity - ✔✔How language can shape our perceptions
✔✔Inclusive language - ✔✔Employs expressions and words that are broad enough to
include all people and avoids expressions and words that exclude particular groups
✔✔Factors in non-verbal communication - ✔✔Environment, chronemics, proxemics,
haptics , physical appearance, kinesics, face, and eyes
✔✔Environment - ✔✔Our physical, social, and contextual surroundings that shape the
communication context
✔✔Chronemics - ✔✔The study of the ways people use time to structure interactions
✔✔Proxemics - ✔✔The study of how we use space and distance to communicate
✔✔Haptics - ✔✔The study of touch as nonverbal communication
✔✔Physical appearance - ✔✔Observable traits of the body and its accessories and
extensions
✔✔Kinesics - ✔✔The study of body movements, including both posture and gestures
✔✔Face - ✔✔The image of self that we project to others
✔✔Eyes - ✔✔Behavior and its influence on the social interactive process, how we take
in information from our everyday surroundings
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Communication theory of identity - ✔✔Illustrates how individuals make assumptions
about each other based on their backgrounds, and helps explain how
misunderstandings occur in the medical context
✔✔Salience of identity - ✔✔The importance of one identity in relation to others
✔✔Avowed vs. ascribed identity - ✔✔The identity you claim for yourself vs. the identity
that is given/assigned by others
✔✔Frames of identity - ✔✔Personal, enactment, relational, and communal
✔✔Sojourning - ✔✔The temporary move from one's own culture to a new one
✔✔U-curve - ✔✔Honeymoon, crisis, recovery, and adjustment
✔✔Culture shock - ✔✔A state of confusion, anxiety, stress, or loss felt when one
encounters a culture that has little in common with one's own
✔✔Assimilating - ✔✔The process of adapting to fit into or conform to a new group or
culture
✔✔Socialization - ✔✔How members learn the values, norms, and behaviors needed to
fulfill their roles within a group or organization; can help one assimilate into a group
✔✔Encounter and metamorphosis - ✔✔Learning more about the group and becoming
more acquainted with the rules/norms; new members alter their behaviors and even
come to accept such changes
✔✔Acculturation - ✔✔The progression through which individuals adapt their own
cultural identities and norms to fit into another culture, which is often the dominant or
mainstream culture of a region or country
, ✔✔Enculturation vs. deculturation - ✔✔How we learn our own culture as we grow up vs.
how we unlearn certain aspects of our cultures to fit into a new one
✔✔Adjustment vs. adaptation - ✔✔A short-term state of reducing an uncertainty to meet
a need vs. a long-term process that prompts someone to evolve to fit an environment
✔✔Verbal vs. non-verbal communication - ✔✔Both our words and our verbal fillers vs.
all the ways we communicate without the use of words
✔✔Digital vs. analogic communication - ✔✔Communication through the use of symbols
vs. communication through likeness or similarity
✔✔Leakage clues - ✔✔Signs that give away information the speaker wishes to conceal
verbally is spilling out nonverbally
✔✔Linguistic relativity - ✔✔How language can shape our perceptions
✔✔Inclusive language - ✔✔Employs expressions and words that are broad enough to
include all people and avoids expressions and words that exclude particular groups
✔✔Factors in non-verbal communication - ✔✔Environment, chronemics, proxemics,
haptics , physical appearance, kinesics, face, and eyes
✔✔Environment - ✔✔Our physical, social, and contextual surroundings that shape the
communication context
✔✔Chronemics - ✔✔The study of the ways people use time to structure interactions
✔✔Proxemics - ✔✔The study of how we use space and distance to communicate
✔✔Haptics - ✔✔The study of touch as nonverbal communication
✔✔Physical appearance - ✔✔Observable traits of the body and its accessories and
extensions
✔✔Kinesics - ✔✔The study of body movements, including both posture and gestures
✔✔Face - ✔✔The image of self that we project to others
✔✔Eyes - ✔✔Behavior and its influence on the social interactive process, how we take
in information from our everyday surroundings
