Chapter 5: Non-verbal messages

Question 1

Adaptor

Answer 1

Touching behaviors and movements that indicate internal states typically related to arousal or anxiety

Question 2

Affect display

Answer 2

The verbal and non-verbal displays of affect (emotion)

Question 3

Alter-adaptors

Answer 3

Refer to the physical movements and manipulations that help people to reduce stress

Question 4

Artifactual messages

Answer 4

Messages that are conveyed by objects made by human hands

Question 5

Attractiveness

Answer 5

A force that draws people together

Question 6

Boundary markers

Answer 6

Identify the edges of territory

Question 7

Central markers

Answer 7

The relationship that involves interaction between participants

Question 8

Chronemics

Answer 8

The study of the use of time in nonverbal communication

Question 9

Civil inattention

Answer 9

The practice of giving some minimal acknowledgement of the presence of a stranger

Question 10

Color communication

Answer 10

Mental expression and add diversity in language communication.

Question 11

Cultural time

Answer 11

A process of creating shared meaning

Question 12

Earmakers

Answer 12

A marker that identifies an item as belonging to a specific person

Question 13

Emblems

Answer 13

Gestures that have very precise meanings known within an ethnic, cultural, or sub-cultural group

Question 14

Emoticon

Answer 14

A small group of symbols arranged to show happiness, sadness, and other emotions.

Question 15

Facial feedback hypothesis

Answer 15

The contractions of the facial muscles may not only communicate what a person feels to others but also to the person him- or herself

Question 16

Facial management techniques

Answer 16

The process of exchanging messages between individuals through verbal and nonverbal cues to reach a shared understanding

Question 17

Haptics

Answer 17

A branch of nonverbal communication that refers to the ways in which people and animals communicate and interact via the sense of touch

Question 18

Home field advantage

Answer 18

Refers to the tendency for sports performers to win more often when competing at their home facility

Question 19

Illustrators

Answer 19

Nonverbal cues directly linked with words

Question 20

Interpersonal time

Answer 20

A process by which we share ideas or information with other people

Question 21

Intimate distance

Answer 21

Used for very confidential communications

Question 22

Kinesics

Answer 22

Refers to the study of how we use our bodies to communicate

Question 23

Markers

Answer 23

Words or phrases with little meaning that are used to suggest relationships

Question 24

Monochronic time orientation

Answer 24

Events are scheduled one at a time, with one event following another

Question 25

Nonverbal communication

Answer 25

Transfer of information from one person to another without the use of words or spoken language

Question 26

Object adaptors

Answer 26

Touching behaviors and movements that indicate internal states typically related to arousal or anxiety

Question 27

Oculesics

Answer 27

The study of nonverbal communication behavior involving the eyes

Question 28

Olfactory communication

Answer 28

The process by which organisms are able to communicate with each other through different scents and odors

Question 29

Paralanguage

Answer 29

The vocal but nonverbal elements of communication by speech

Question 30

Personal distance

Answer 30

The amount of distance that people are comfortable putting between themselves and others

Question 31

Polychronic time orientation

Answer 31

To a method of managing time, where many events occur at once

Question 32

Primary territories

Answer 32

A space controlled by and identified with the person or group who uses it exclusively and to whom it is essential

Question 33

Proxemics

Answer 33

The study of how space is used in human interactions

Question 34

Psychological time

Answer 34

Temporal dimensions such as duration, pace and the order of perceived and internal events

Question 35

Public distance

Answer 35

An impersonal interaction, about 12 - 25 feet away

Question 36

Public territories

Answer 36

Refers to the territory that is not owned by the individual, but is open to all

Question 37

Regulators

Answer 37

Nonverbal messages that accompany speech to control or regulate what the speaker is saying

Question 38

Secondary territories

Answer 38

Signals a person’s affiliation with a certain area or object

Question 39

Self-adaptors

Answer 39

A form of nonverbal communication—a class of gestures and movements that help people deal with discomfort

Question 40

Silence

Answer 40

When you don’t use words or sounds during a conversation

Question 41

Social clock

Answer 41

A culturally defined timeline for social milestones

Question 42

Social distance

Answer 42

Refers to the level of acceptance people have of others outside of their own social group or class

Question 43

Temporal communication

Answer 43

Refers to the way that individuals rely on past behaviors to set the tone for communication

Question 44

Territoriality

Answer 44

Refers to how people use space (territory) to communicate ownership or occupancy of areas and possessions

Question 45

Tie signs

Answer 45

Signs, signals, and symbols, that are revealed through people’s actions

Question 46

Touch avoidance

Answer 46

A measure of a person’s attitude toward touching, where being touched produces varying degrees of discomfort

Question 47

Touch communication

Answer 47

To express interpersonal attitudes of considerable importance

Question 48

Transmitted

Answer 48

A linear, one-way process in which a sender intentionally transmits a message to a receiver

Question 49

Turn-taking cues

Answer 49

A part of the conversation structure in which one person listens while the other person speaks