CMST 1061 ACTUAL FINAL PAPER UPDATED QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Symbols - ✔✔Representation of something. All language is symbolic, but not all
symbols are linguistic
✔✔Constitutive Rules - ✔✔Define what a particular communication means or stands for
✔✔Institutional Facts - ✔✔Meanings assign to brute facts based on human
interpretation
✔✔Arbitrary - ✔✔Language is ____
✔✔Totalizing - ✔✔Responding to a person as if one label fits that person
✔✔Loaded Language - ✔✔Words that slant perceptions
✔✔65-93% - ✔✔According to our textbook, nonverbal communication is estimated to
account for what percentage of the total meaning of communication?
✔✔responsiveness - ✔✔Assuming an attentive posture, holding eye contact, and
nodding to show you understand what another person is saying are nonverbal
behaviors that convey which dimension of relational level meanings?
✔✔paralanguage - ✔✔During an argument, when Lisa tells her husband Scott, "It's not
what you said, it's how you said it," Lisa is upset with Scott's use of __________
✔✔chronemics - ✔✔Joaquin came to the United States from Mexico three months ago
and he is still having trouble understanding Americans' tendency to rush all the time. He
is also surprised when his teachers are irritated if he joins class a while after class has
started. Joaquin's confusion about American pace of life is based on which aspect of
nonverbal behavior?
✔✔false - ✔✔Most nonverbal communication is instinctual; it is part of our genetic
makeup.
✔✔true - ✔✔People with high status and/or power tend to touch others and invade
others' space more than do people with less power and/or status.
✔✔regulate interaction - ✔✔Rachel doesn't want to be interrupted while she's speaking
so she avoids looking at others until she has said all she wants to say. Then she looks
at the person who wants to respond. Rachel has used nonverbal behavior to
__________.
, ✔✔proxemics - ✔✔The study of space and how people use it is known as __________.
✔✔kinesics - ✔✔The term referring to body position and motions is __________.
✔✔it does not vary over time - ✔✔Which of the following is NOT true about nonverbal
communication?
✔✔prejudgment - ✔✔As soon as the news program begins an interview with the
President, Dolores quits paying attention and she mumbles to herself, "I already know
everything he has to say and I don't want to hear it again." Dolores' ability to listen is
being hindered by __________.
✔✔minimal encouragers - ✔✔Bao is a teacher. When she is talking to students one on
one, she gently encourages them to express themselves by saying, "Tell me more," "go
on," "I understand." These are examples of __________.
✔✔paraphrasing - ✔✔Lemarr says, "I am really bummed out about not getting any job
offers." His roommate, John, responds, "Sounds as if you're feeling pretty low about the
response so far." John's communication is an example of __________.
✔✔true - ✔✔Monopolizing is hogging the stage by continuously focusing the
conversation on ourselves instead of the person who is talking.
✔✔interpretation - ✔✔Putting together all that we have selected and organized, in order
to make sense of communication, is known as __________
✔✔message complexity - ✔✔Shawn is having trouble listening effectively in his
advanced philosophy course. Usually he listens well in class, but the professor in this
case is so full of information and he presents such complicated ideas that Shawn has
difficulty following and retaining the lecture. Shawn is experiencing a listening obstacle
known as __________.
✔✔hearing - ✔✔The physiological component of listening is __________.
✔✔45-55 % - ✔✔What percentage of waking time does the average person spend
listening, according to studies?
✔✔monopolizing - ✔✔When Jing says to Juana that she is having a difficult time in her
chemistry class, Juana's first response is to launch into an extended description of the
difficulties she had in her physicals class. By doing so, Juana is engaging in a faulty
listening practice known as __________.
✔✔selective listening - ✔✔While visiting her parents on a break from school Melinda
doesn't pay attention to much of what they say. She lets much of their communication
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Symbols - ✔✔Representation of something. All language is symbolic, but not all
symbols are linguistic
✔✔Constitutive Rules - ✔✔Define what a particular communication means or stands for
✔✔Institutional Facts - ✔✔Meanings assign to brute facts based on human
interpretation
✔✔Arbitrary - ✔✔Language is ____
✔✔Totalizing - ✔✔Responding to a person as if one label fits that person
✔✔Loaded Language - ✔✔Words that slant perceptions
✔✔65-93% - ✔✔According to our textbook, nonverbal communication is estimated to
account for what percentage of the total meaning of communication?
✔✔responsiveness - ✔✔Assuming an attentive posture, holding eye contact, and
nodding to show you understand what another person is saying are nonverbal
behaviors that convey which dimension of relational level meanings?
✔✔paralanguage - ✔✔During an argument, when Lisa tells her husband Scott, "It's not
what you said, it's how you said it," Lisa is upset with Scott's use of __________
✔✔chronemics - ✔✔Joaquin came to the United States from Mexico three months ago
and he is still having trouble understanding Americans' tendency to rush all the time. He
is also surprised when his teachers are irritated if he joins class a while after class has
started. Joaquin's confusion about American pace of life is based on which aspect of
nonverbal behavior?
✔✔false - ✔✔Most nonverbal communication is instinctual; it is part of our genetic
makeup.
✔✔true - ✔✔People with high status and/or power tend to touch others and invade
others' space more than do people with less power and/or status.
✔✔regulate interaction - ✔✔Rachel doesn't want to be interrupted while she's speaking
so she avoids looking at others until she has said all she wants to say. Then she looks
at the person who wants to respond. Rachel has used nonverbal behavior to
__________.
, ✔✔proxemics - ✔✔The study of space and how people use it is known as __________.
✔✔kinesics - ✔✔The term referring to body position and motions is __________.
✔✔it does not vary over time - ✔✔Which of the following is NOT true about nonverbal
communication?
✔✔prejudgment - ✔✔As soon as the news program begins an interview with the
President, Dolores quits paying attention and she mumbles to herself, "I already know
everything he has to say and I don't want to hear it again." Dolores' ability to listen is
being hindered by __________.
✔✔minimal encouragers - ✔✔Bao is a teacher. When she is talking to students one on
one, she gently encourages them to express themselves by saying, "Tell me more," "go
on," "I understand." These are examples of __________.
✔✔paraphrasing - ✔✔Lemarr says, "I am really bummed out about not getting any job
offers." His roommate, John, responds, "Sounds as if you're feeling pretty low about the
response so far." John's communication is an example of __________.
✔✔true - ✔✔Monopolizing is hogging the stage by continuously focusing the
conversation on ourselves instead of the person who is talking.
✔✔interpretation - ✔✔Putting together all that we have selected and organized, in order
to make sense of communication, is known as __________
✔✔message complexity - ✔✔Shawn is having trouble listening effectively in his
advanced philosophy course. Usually he listens well in class, but the professor in this
case is so full of information and he presents such complicated ideas that Shawn has
difficulty following and retaining the lecture. Shawn is experiencing a listening obstacle
known as __________.
✔✔hearing - ✔✔The physiological component of listening is __________.
✔✔45-55 % - ✔✔What percentage of waking time does the average person spend
listening, according to studies?
✔✔monopolizing - ✔✔When Jing says to Juana that she is having a difficult time in her
chemistry class, Juana's first response is to launch into an extended description of the
difficulties she had in her physicals class. By doing so, Juana is engaging in a faulty
listening practice known as __________.
✔✔selective listening - ✔✔While visiting her parents on a break from school Melinda
doesn't pay attention to much of what they say. She lets much of their communication
