Page of This chapter has 29 questions Scroll down to see and select individual questions or narrow the list using the checkboxes below questions at random and keep in order Multiple Choice Questions - (15) Odd Numbered - (15) True/False Questions - (9) Even Numbered - (14) Essay Questions - (5) Social scientists who attempt to understand human communication by looking at animal communication as well are employing which of the following perspectives? Universal Contemporary → Comparative Comprehensive International Multiple Choice Question The linear model of communication involved five distinct stages Which of the following is NOT one of those stages? Deciding on the message Encoding the intended meanings Transmitting the message → Comparing the message with stored meanings Decoding or interpreting the message Multiple Choice Question Anna is searching her memory for specific words or gestures and their associated meanings to be put together in a pattern in order to Test communicate a specific message In of which stage of the communication4th process is sheby engaging? Bank for Fundamentals Human Communication Edition DeFleur Encoding the intended message Transmitting message Full file atthehttps://TestbankDirect.eu/ Decoding the message Receiving the message → Deciding on the message Multiple Choice Question A subjective response that individuals learn to make, either to objects, events, or situations that they experience through their senses, is called: Communication Perceptions → Meanings Symbols Information Multiple Choice Question Words or gestures whose conventional meaning people usually understand are: → Symbols Signs Sets of experiences Signals Meanings Multiple Choice Question The concept of meaning is central to the encoding process What something actually means to someone, however, is difficult to define The primary reason why meaning is so difficult to understand is that it is behavior: Objective → Subjective Figurative Detached Denotative Multiple Choice Question Imprinted records of experiences registered in the brain by activities of its nerve cells are termed: → Traces Schemata Symbols Paths Memories Multiple Choice Question Recalling things such as cheerleaders, touchdowns, and helmets when someone mentions "football game" is an example of a: Trace Full file at https://TestbankDirect.eu/ Page of → Schema Symbol Cluster Signal Multiple Choice Question When a sender assesses the likelihood that a receiver will be able to interpret the intentions and meanings of a particular message, the sender is engaging in: Encoding Decoding → Role-taking Interpreting Meanings Multiple Choice Question 10 is a kind of "reading of the mind." The source mentally places himself or herself in the shoes of another person to determine the best way to communicate the intended meanings so that the receiver can interpret them Feedback Encoding → Role-taking Sympathy Receptiveness Multiple Choice Question Test Bank for Fundamentals of Human Communication 4th Edition by DeFleur 11 Seeing, hearing, or feeling something (with the senses) and then identifying what it is within the interpretations learned from your own culture is the definition of: Full file at https://TestbankDirect.eu/ → Perceptions Meanings Communication Role-taking Feedback Multiple Choice Question 12 The linear model of communication can be transformed into an interactive model by adding what component? Traces Decoding → Feedback Role-taking Context Multiple Choice Question 13 The simultaneous transactions model of communication can be summed up in six basic propositions Which of the following statements is NOT a proposition? Communicating parties simultaneously engage in role-taking and feedback Communicating parties are simultaneously influenced by the social situation within which their communication takes place Communicating parties are simultaneously influenced by their prior communicative interactions → Communicating parties simultaneously analyze the act of communication Communicating parties are simultaneously influenced by the social relationships that exist between them Multiple Choice Question 14 The nature of relationships such as those between spouses, friends, acquaintances, or supervisors and subordinates at work can strongly influence: → What is communicated? Traces and paths Subsequent communication Satisfaction with communication Length of communication Multiple Choice Question 15 The whole range of intended elements we formulate into our message, exactly as we word it, is the: → Surface meaning Active meaning Comprehensive meaning Deep meaning Relational meaning Multiple Choice Question 16 Full file at https://TestbankDirect.eu/ Page of Human communication can be thought of as a process during which a source initiates a message using conventionalized symbols, nonverbal signs, and contextual cues to express meanings by transmitting information in such a way that similar or parallel understandings are constructed by an intended other → True False True / False Question 17 Meanings are subjective responses that individuals learn → True False True / False Question 18 The encoding process is unbelievably fast and automated → True False True / False Question 19 The physical surroundings where communication takes place have little influence on how a message is understood True → False True / False Question 20 Relationships such as those between spouses, friends, acquaintances, or strangers can strongly influence both the content of messages and the way in which they are transmitted and received → True False Test Bank for Fundamentals of Human Communication 4th Edition by DeFleur True / False Question Full file atmeans https://TestbankDirect.eu/ 21 Accurate communication that all of the intended meanings of the sending individual are reconstructed by the receiver so that they match → True False True / False Question 22 An outcome in which meanings intended by the source become compounded with or displaced by other meanings constructed by the receiver is the definition of incomplete communication True → False True / False Question 23 Communication distortion only occurs at the surface meaning level True → False True / False Question 24 Complete and accurate communication occurs only if the total combination of traits and schematic configurations of meanings intended and developed by a source is identical to the total combination constructed and experienced by a receiver → True False True / False Question 25 Discuss how speech and language distinguish humans from animals Explanation: Answers will vary Essay Question 26 Discuss why effective communication skills are even more important today than in the past Explanation: Answers will vary Essay Question 27 List and discuss the components of the definition of human communication, including process, symbols, nonverbal signs, contextual cues, and meanings Explanation: Full file at https://TestbankDirect.eu/ Page of Answers will vary Essay Question 28 Understand and discuss the connection between accurate and distorted communication Explanation: Answers will vary Essay Question 29 Explain the process of encoding a message Explanation: Answers will vary Essay Question Test Bank for Fundamentals of Human Communication 4th Edition by DeFleur Full file at https://TestbankDirect.eu/ Full file at https://TestbankDirect.eu/