Quiz 1 Chapters 1&2

We are not communicating when we remain silent.

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We are not communicating when we remain silent.

Chapter One indicates that effective interpersonal communication is strongly linked to good health, social happiness and career success.

The only way we learn who we are is through communication.

Just as judges instruct juries to disregard some statements made in court, we can reverse or erase the effects of communication interactions in everyday life.

Transactional communication may be compared to dancing due to the involvement needed by each partner.

Ironically, when an isolated communicator's sense of self-efficacy increases due to successful mediated communication, he or she is likely to increase the amount of time spent in mediated communication and become more isolated.

Disinhibition refers to the tendency of online communicators to express themselves with less caution and self-monitoring.

Telephone calls are asynchronous

Researchers using word-count programs found that men tend to use about the same number of large words, nouns, and swear words as do women.

Synchronicity is the condition when communicators are all connected in real time.