Duplicate of SPCH 100 Interpersonal Communication Final Exam Prep

The degree to which members of a society accept an unequal distribution of power is known as?

The process by which communicators influence each other’s perceptions.

An attitude that one’s own culture is superior to others is known as?

Providing feedback that restates, in your own words, the message you thought the speaker sent.

Tension arises when intimate knowledge of someone causes a lower level of passion.

The process of adapting speech style to match that of others with whom one wants to identify

All of the following are benefits of disclosure except:

Going to incredible lengths to seek acceptance from others.

Occurs when a communicator expresses dissatisfaction in a disguised manner

Who wants you to study hard for this exam and get an A?! Also, she'll miss you all a lot :(

Appraises the sender’s thoughts or behaviors in some way. May be favorable or unfavorable.

Occurs when people choose not to confront an issue directly (lose-lose).

Response style listeners use when they want to show they identify with a speaker.

Nonverbal behaviors that are culturally understood substitutes for verbal expressions (nodding)

Behavior that arouses defensiveness. Probably a better word would be indifference.

When communicators don’t want to argue, but they still want to register dissatisfaction, they..

Which dimension involves the information being explicitly discussed? Eg. “Please pass the salt”

In which model do we receive and respond to messages from another person simultaneously?

This dimension expresses how you feel about the other person.

If both partners treat each other with matching hostility, one threat & insult leads to another

Attaching meaning to sense data is known as?

Seeks win-win solutions to conflict.

Because we’re exposed to more input than we can possibly manage, the first step in perception..

Dialectical tensions where we want to be close to others, at the same time we seek independence

The study of touching

Words that unnecessarily differentiate between females/ males. Exclude, trivialize either sex.

What word means emphasizing punctuality, schedules, and completing one task at a time?

What is the name for a lie that is not malicious, but perhaps helpful?

Members of this culture view their primary responsibility as helping themselves.

An illustration of how self-disclosure operates in communication.

This love language can be shown through sexual activity, an arm around the shoulder...

Exaggerated beliefs associated with a categorizing system is known as?

Messages expressed by nonlinguistic means are known as:

Tentative and indirect word choices with hedges and hesitations. ie Excuse me sir, I guess, ok

Refers to how much a family stresses uniformity of values, beliefs, and attitudes.

After stagnation, people in a relationship begin to create distance between each other by...

Instances when others don’t behave as we assume they should.

Test Question: 1 + 1 = ?

Innocuous terms substituted for blunt ones

In this stage of relational development, couples reestablish their individual identities.

Which love language is about being present and available for your partner?

Communicators often adapt their manner of speaking when they change contexts. This is called:

Doing nothing that can inconvenience others, thinking it will cause undesirable feelings

Responses reveal the listener’s solidarity with the speaker’s situation.

The non-vocal, internal monologue that is our process of thinking.

Situations in which managing and even suppressing emotions are both appropriate and necessary

Messages that refer to other messages are known as?

Which is not considered a toxic form of communication/ “the four horsemen of the apocalypse”

The person you believe yourself to be in moments of honest self-examination.

A way to offer your thoughts, feelings, and wants without judging the listener.

Occurs when there’s a time gap between when a message is sent and when it’s received.

Of Hall’s 4 spatial zones, which one begins with skin contact and ranges to about 18 inches?