Here are the answers to each question:
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What variables does the interactive communication model add to the linear communication model?
- Answer: feedback and fields of experience
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Competent communication suggests that one is able to apply their knowledge to repeatable goal-directed behaviors.
- Answer: True
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Which component of competent communication pertains to achieving your goals?
- Answer: effectiveness
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Which communication model is illustrated by text messaging and email?
- Answer: interactive
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Which model of communication recognizes the multidirectional, complex nature of communication?
- Answer: transactional
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The process through which people use messages to generate meanings within and across modalities, channels, and contexts is
- Answer: communication.
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According to Self-Verification Theory, people
- Answer: select those who most accurately support their self-concept.
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The tendency to act in ways that ensure interactions occur as you believed and predicted they would is called a
- Answer: self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Which of these is NOT a strategy you can use to maintain face?
- Answer: Only communicate with a select group of people.
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Your evaluations about yourself and others (whether positive or negative) are called
- Answer: attitudes.
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The horn effect occurs when you make negative attributions about someone for whom you have already formed a negative Gestalt.
- Answer: True
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A useful method for testing your impressions in order to avoid errors in judgment is
- Answer: perception-checking.
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Perception-checking involves all of these steps EXCEPT
- Answer: hiding your impressions from the person.
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In which stage of the perception process do you assign meaning to information you have selected?
- Answer: interpretation
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If you overindulge at a buffet and the next day explain that your friends pressured you to eat more and more, you are exhibiting which perceptual error?
- Answer: self-serving bias
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During what type of interactions is the actor-observer effect MOST prevalent?
- Answer: unpleasant interactions
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The positive self you actively create and present through your communication is called (the)
- Answer: face.
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Which of these may help increase your self-esteem?
- Answer: having consistency between your ought and ideal self
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Misunderstanding occurs frequently online due to a lack of
- Answer: nonverbal cues.
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