Communication Verbally MCQs
Communication Verbally MCQs
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1: Referents that cannot be detected through your senses is called
A. ● Article
B. ● Abstract
C. ● Policy
D. ● Thesis
2: The number of words in a language it takes to express a thought is called
A. ● Ability
B. ● Codability
C. ● Effective
D. ● All of above
3: A theory explaining how two speakers of different backgrounds (based on age, culture, sex, or other differences) may adjust their style of speaking relative to each other is called
A. ● Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT)
B. ● Communication Ability Theory (CAT)
C. ● Communication Analytical Theory (CAT)
D. ● None of these
4: Referents that you are able to detect with one of your senses. Concrete referents are those that you can see, smell, taste, touch, or hear is called concrete
A. ● True
B. ● False
5: The acknowledgment, validation, and support of another person is called
A. ● Affirmation
B. ● Confirmation
C. ● Validation
D. ● Observation
6: People’s personal and subjective experience with a verbal symbol is called
A. ● Connotative meaning
B. ● Personal meaning
C. ● Regular meaning
D. ● None of these
7: A process described in Communication Accommodation Theory involving making one’s speech style similar to another’s is called
A. ● Diverge
B. ● Converge
C. ● Disconverge
D. ● None of above
8: Developing an understanding of the speaker’s meaning based on hearing language is called
A. ● Coding
B. ● Decoding
C. ● Bar
D. ● Chart
9: Denotative meaning is the literal, conventional meaning that most people in a culture have agreed to be the meaning of a symbol. Denotation is the type of meaning found in a dictionary definition.
A. ● True
B. ● False
10: Occurs when someone feels ignored and disregarded. Disconfirmation makes people feel that you don’t see them—that they are unimportant is called
A. ● Disconfirmation
B. ● Confirmation
C. ● Literature
D. ● None of above
11: A process described in Communication Accommodation Theory involving speaking in a way that highlights the differences between two people’s speaking styles.
A. ● Emerge
B. ● Diverge
C. ● Straight
D. ● None of above
12: Putting our thoughts into meaningful language is known as
A. ● Coding
B. ● Encoding
C. ● Chating
D. ● All of above
13: A type of ambiguity involving choosing your words carefully to give a listener a false impression without actually lying is called
A. ● Euphemisms
B. ● Equivocation
C. ● Equality
D. ● None of above
14: A kind of equivocation using milder or less direct words substituted for other words that are more blunt or negative is called
A. ● Euphemisms
B. ● Equivocation
C. ● Equality
D. ● None of above
15: A word with the fewest restrictions in terms of possible referents is called
A. ● Specific
B. ● General
C. ● Normal
D. ● None of above
16: The rule in English grammar, dating from 1553, requiring the masculine pronoun he to function generically when the subject of the sentence is not known to be a woman or man in generic he
A. ● True
B. ● False
17: Refers to the set of rules in a specific language dictating how words should be organized is called
A. ● English
B. ● Grammar
C. ● Words
D. ● Sentences
18: A word or a phrase that has an understood meaning within a culture, but that meaning doesn’t come from exact translation is called
A. ● Sentence
B. ● Idiom
C. ● Phrase
D. ● Paragraph
19: Acknowledging the time frame of your judgments of others and yourself is known as
A. ● Texting
B. ● Indexing
C. ● Typing
D. ● None of above
20: Consists of both verbal symbols and grammar; it enables us to engage in meaning making with others is called
A. ● Gaps
B. ● Language
C. ● Ways
D. ● None of above
21: Experiences and ideas that aren’t named in a language is called
A. ● Relativity
B. ● Lexical gaps
C. ● Sider gaps
D. ● None of above
22: Sometimes called the “strong form” of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, it refers to the notion that without a word in your language for a thing/ idea, you cannot perceive that thing/idea in the linguistic determinism
A. ● True
B. ● False
23: Sometimes called the “weak form” of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, it refers to the notion that while language doesn’t completely determine your thinking, it strongly influences it known as
A. ● Linguistic relativity
B. ● Linguistic determinism
C. ● Linguistic way
D. ● None of above
24: Words—such as chairman, salesman, repairman, mailman, and mankind—that include the word man but are supposed to operate generically to include women as well in
A. ● Man dash words
B. ● Man- linked words
C. ● Only words
D. ● All of above
25: A theory explaining what happens to people whose experiences are not well represented by the verbal symbols in their language is called
A. ● Muted individual theory
B. ● Muted group theory
C. ● Individual group theory
D. ● None of above
26: A verbal ritual where each person’s negative comment is matched by the following speaker’s negative comment in
A. ● Negative Contagion
B. ● Positive Contagion
C. ● Neutral
D. ● None of above
27: Acknowledging the viewpoints of those with whom you interact is called
A. ● End talking
B. ● Perspective taking
C. ● Phatic taking
D. ● None of above
28: Idiomatic communication used for interpersonal contact only which communication?
A. ● Phatic communication
B. ● Linked communication
C. ● Mass communication
D. ● None of above
29: When people utilize the either/or aspect of the English language and use words that cast topics in extremes in polarization
A. ● True
B. ● False
30: The thing the word represents is called
A. ● Reification
B. ● Referents
C. ● Derogation
D. ● Communicate
31: The tendency to respond to words, or labels for things, rather than the things themselves is called
A. ● Reification
B. ● Referents
C. ● Derogation
D. ● Communicate
32: The use of one term with a positive connotation and its supposed parallel term with a negative connotation (e.g., master and mistress) in Semantic derogation
A. ● True
B. ● False
33: Language that is demeaning to one sex is called
A. ● Low language
B. ● Sexist language
C. ● Pitch language
D. ● None of above
34: A word with a restricted number of possible referents is called
A. ● Normal
B. ● Specific
C. ● Variations
D. ● All of above
35: Groups who share norms about how to speak; what words to use; and when, where, and why to speak is called
A. ● Thought communities
B. ● Speech communities
C. ● Learning communities
D. ● None of Above
36: When words conceal change; when we speak and respond to people today the same way we did many years ago is called
A. ● Static evaluation
B. ● Strategic evaluation
C. ● Basic evaluation
D. ● None of these
37: The lack of clarity people use intentionally when they do not want others to completely understand their intentions is called
A. ● Strategic ambiguity
B. ● Static evaluation
C. ● Strategic evaluation
D. ● Simple evaluation
38: An explanation for differences in women’s and men’s verbal codes based on conceptualizing the two sexes as two separate cultures is called
A. ● One-culture theory
B. ● Two-culture theory
C. ● Different-culture theory
D. ● Static-culture theory
39: The words or the vocabulary that make up a language is called
A. ● Verbal symbols
B. ● Adjectives symbols
C. ● Non verbal symbols
D. ● Non adjectives symbols
40: The Communication Acconmadation Theory (CAT) says speakers may ______ or make their speech style like the other’s.
A. Diverge
B. Converge
C. Channel
D. Dismiss
41: The term “persons of color” puts emphasis on the person and their ______.
A. Culture
B. Language
C. Ethnicity
D. Gender
42: Culture pertains to more than ______.
A. Language
B. Race
C. Practices
D. National origin
43: Those who are incarcerated are an example of a(n) ______.
A. Speech community
B. Ethnic culture
C. National culture
D. Language
44: ______ language is one of the most studied in terms of the effects of ethnicity on language.
A. Native American
B. African American
C. Chinese
D. Spanish
45: Sapir and Whorf believed that without a ______ for something, a person has difficulty perceiving that thing or thinking that it’s important.
A. Word
B. Label
C. Message
D. Language
46: The ease with which a language can express is thought is called _______.
A. Linguistic relativity
B. Codability
C. Linguistic determinism
D. Phatic communication
47: In communication research, the ______ involves the setting or situation in which the encounter takes place.
A. Culture
B. Sex
C. Ethnicity
D. Context
48: John and Geroge both speak the same language, and because of this the ______ will affect the meaning.
A. Words
B. Message
C. Contextual cues
D. National origin
49: The ______ used for a communication transaction has an impact on the meaning and experience of that transaction.
A. Context
B. Channel
C. Message
D. Language
50: When we communicate, we are doing much more than ______; we’re connecting with some people and indicating to others how different we are from one another.
A. Exchanging words
B. Thinking
C. Owning
D. Decoding
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