COMS 101 quiz chapter 1 Liberty University answers complete solutions.

COMS 101 quiz chapter 1 Liberty University • Question 1 3 out of 3 points Communis, the Latin term from which communication derives, means . . . • Question 2 3 out of 3 points The presence of commonness is an essential feature of communication. • Question 3 3 out of 3 points The human tendency to form careless beliefs about people based on their features or group identities is called ________. • Question 4 3 out of 3 points When a person believes, feels, values, or acts as one with another person, communis exists. • Question 5 3 out of 3 points Dr. Alban argues that all people see all things in exactly the same way. • Question 6 3 out of 3 points According to the Alban text, the term for factors that can disrupt meaningful transmissions of information between senders and potential recipients is _______. • Question 7 0 out of 3 points Researchers Teresa Rosegrant and James McCroskey have shown that blacks and whites establish greater interpersonal distance from each other than they do when speaking to someone of the same race. • Question 8 3 out of 3 points This term denotes the human attempt to make sense of human communication behavior and specific human communications in the light of divine revelation. • Question 9 3 out of 3 points Polychronic cultures view time in a highly structured manner, reducing life to a series of tasks that are generally accomplished, one at a time, in a designated sequence. • Question 10 3 out of 3 points Monochronic cultures are less schedule-oriented than polychronic cultures. • Question 11 3 out of 3 points The term for a person’s use of volume, tone, pitch, accent, speaking pace, and silence to send a message is _________. • Question 12 3 out of 3 points According to the Alban text, whereas redemption is the human attempt to connect with God or with something God-like, religion is the state of having actually connected with God. • Question 13 3 out of 3 points According to the Alban text, this term denotes the composite of someone’s beliefs about human origin, nature, purpose, and destiny, and about values, whether moral or aesthetic. • Question 14 3 out of 3 points According to the Alban text, existentialists believe that humans are radically free to take control of their minds and to break away from stifling social influences • Question 15 3 out of 3 points According to the Alban text, a redemptive communicator is someone who does what? • Question 16 3 out of 3 points According to the Alban text, the ancient Greek philosopher Protagoras’s statement that “Man is the measure of all things!” expresses a core assumption of which type of worldview system? • Question 17 3 out of 3 points According to the Alban text, a person’s physical constitution can impact the development of his or her worldview. • Question 18 3 out of 3 points According to the Alban text, by showing how social influences can impact what people become and how privileged groups use this to promote themselves at others’ expense, postmodernists fulfill their goal of _________. • Question 19 3 out of 3 points According to the Alban text, the Biblically Christian worldview recognizes that all people have an inherited sinful nature that estranges them from God and that pollutes their interactions with each other. • Question 20 3 out of 3 points The Biblically Christian worldview regards truth to be what? • Question 21 0 out of 3 points During a conversation about the rightness or wrongness of Derek's recent behavior, Kari makes the following statement to Dustin: "I guess it doesn't really matter anyway because, in the end, right and wrong are just matter of personal opinion or preference. What's right for Derek is right for Derek, even if it's wrong for you or me." True or False: According to the Alban text, Kari's statement expresses the Biblically Christian worldview regarding ethics. • Question 22 3 out of 3 points According to the Biblically Christian worldview, although God set the physical world into motion, He does not enable it to continue operating as it does. • Question 23 3 out of 3 points According to the Alban text, the Biblically Christian worldview understands that reasoning and observation, because they are corrupted, are incapable or disclosing any reliable information about ourselves. • Question 24 3 out of 3 points According to the Alban text, the truth claims in God’s Word are true for all people at all times, even for people who deny or ignore them. • Question 25 3 out of 3 points According to the Alban text, when a redemptive critic makes sense of a communication text, he or she identifies several common graces as these graces appear in the text. Which of the following is not one of these? • Question 26 3 out of 3 points According to the Alban text, if Malinoski’s model for explaining human behavior is flawed, it is for which of the following reasons? • Question 27 3 out of 3 points According to the Alban text, nature, because it is corrupted, can communicate nothing about God to humans. • Question 28 3 out of 3 points According to the Alban text, God may use even a person’s wrongly motivated communications to promote His redemptive purposes. • Question 29 3 out of 3 points The Old Testament prophet Micah indicates that a God-centered communicator 's life will manifest this commitment in three basic character qualities. Which of the following is not one of these? • Question 30 3 out of 3 points According to the Alban text, the calling to be a redemptive communicator applies only to those who enter vocational Christian ministry fields, like missions and the pastorate.