Rutgers INTRO COMM & INFO Fall 2020 Final Exam

 Questions

1) Which country would be aptly described as masculine and individualistic?

2) What is not an element of the feminine approach to conflict?

3) __________ theory tells us that the media tells us what the important issues are?

4) ______________ is a process whereby two or more parties whose interest are seemingly opposed use communication to reach a joint decision

5) ____________messages and _________ messages are two basic message types parents use to socialize with their children.

6) The Johnson family believes that the earth is flat. The Johnson’s are open. The Johnson’s value family time. The Johnson’s are cohesive. The Johnson’s have a:

7) Freddy goes to see Professor H about his paper grade. “The Professor’s office is: cold, dark, messy, smells like cheese and has satanic posters.” The quoted elements represent what level of context

8) Which of the following kinds of families is most unpredictable and conflict-ridden?

9) The Johnson’s make all family decisions by majority vote. This is an example of ___________decision making.

10) Ethnocentrism refers to:

11) Which nonconfrontational style is someone most likely employing when he or she distances him or herself emotionally from, or avoids contact with the other person as a way of dealing with conflict?

12) Chang’s divorced father has married Gretchen’s divorced mother. They all live in the same house. What type of family would this be called

13) How is the range of cohesion expressed in models of family interaction?

14) Rashid has regular meetings with his boss to inform his boss of productivity, quality control issues and potential labor problems. In what kind of communication is Rashid engaging with his boss?

15) What is one of the most prevalent and powerful forms of horizontal communication within organizations?

16) Every the Peter’s family has a summer family reunion. This is an example of which element of being a good family?

17) TJ has a very simple task for her work group. What type of communication network should she use to address the task most efficiently?

18) According to nonverbal and culture research, people from___________ area tend to engage in more touching behaviors.

19) Ron and Tina are Divorced. They don’t talk about the rules or decisions they make regarding their child. _________ is occurring.

20) The ____________ argues the way we interface with technology is governed by the same rules as face to face communication.

21) Braille is considered____________

22) Teddy watched the Homeland Finale on DVR. His media consumption was:

23) African-American female images in film and television are often:

24) Holly is a hottie and her boyfriend won first prize in the face most “ugly” contest. Others are likely to make ____________attribution for why they are a couple.

25) Taunya always wants to be with Brian. She never lets him do anything alone. She always wants to go to the sane places and do the same things. She nags him to talk about his feelings. Which potential dialectics are being expressed?

26) Juanita bases who she forms relationship with based on the ratio of cost to benefits. She forms relationships based on this theory:

27) Bill appears to be helpless in the kitchen to get his wife to cook breakfast for the kids. Bill is using 

28) Competitive message symmetry is a ___________

29) When people are in a health intimate IP relationship, they have:

30) Jerry has the ability to predict the thoughts and objections others might have to his goals and needs. Jerry is good at________________

31) According to lecture, which of the following is the first filter people use to evaluate each other’s attractiveness for relational formation.

32) Which one of the following is not one of the 3 reasons for talking according to Clark and Delia

33) A person who goes out with someone else to make his/her primary partner jealous is using which of Baxter and Wilmont’s secret tests?

34) Brian is listing all of the things about his girlfriend that they do not have in common. According to Knapp, he is in what relational stage.

35) Your momma is so ugly she made One Direction go another direction. This is an example of__________

36) According to lecture centralized networks tend to have the most satisfaction

37) Research shows that satisfied couples report fewer conflicts than dissatisfied couples

38) Developing a positive relationship with your supervisor can help improve horizontal communication.

39) According to Watts, the spectacular consumption of a culture’s communication are a good thing for the culture being consumed

40) 27% of the problems people talk about at work are people problems.

41) Conflict occurs when two people cannot agree upon a way to meet their needs

42) According to the text, Japan is a low context culture.

43) Contemporary definitions of the family tend to focus on the quality of interpersonal relationships and personal commitments than the traditional roles of father, mother and children. 

44) Redding suggests that managers should tell employees what to do and make demands of them

45) Groups have an element of deindividuation

46) The media-equation theory argues that what happens in the media is very different from real-life.

47) Most offices encourage friendship and romantic relationships in the workplace.

48) The Central Intelligence Agency has an open external communication style

49) One-up messages indicate a desire to take control or limit the action of others.

50) We cannot achieve our goals unless we recognize the needs of the “other/s” in the context.

51) During Knapp’s relational breakdown stage of differentiating people are most likely to start an extra-dyadic relationship.

52) According to social exchange theory, people that tend to leave an abusive relationship often have high comparison levels of alternatives.

53) Exemplification is making oneself seem competent via bragging or displaying credentials.

54) Referent power is the power that comes from the position a person holds.

55) Studies show that highly religious couples are less likely to cheat on their partners.

56) The matching Hypothesis argues that people of similar levels of physical attractiveness tend to form romantic pairs.

57) Few intimate interpersonal relationships are ever terminated.

58) When both partners agree to break-up, it is a unilateral termination

59) Gunnysacking is saving issues to use them in a later argument.

60) A good way to deal with relational dialectic tension is disqualification.

61) Groupthink is a positive thing; leading to open-mindedness and higher levels of accountability

62) According to Cultural Communication Research, the “Diva” is a current popular stereotype for African-American women

63) Contrived groups form naturally out of spontaneous activity

64) Pluralistic families are high in conversation orientation and low conformity.

65) The US is considered by many other cultures to be a hegemonic nation

66) Langdon believes that two of the problems with suburban living is lack of investment in the place one works and that suburbs are not diverse living areas.

67) Of all the conflict styles described in the text, compromise is considered the best.

68) Most people belong to several different co-cultures.

69) Compared to people from other countries, Americans place little value on the accumulation of material goods.

70) Many people who are strongly prejudiced have never had personal experiences with the targets of their prejudices.

71) If looking at intercultural communication, counties/nationality are the only elements worth looking at

72) Latent content in communication is the underlying meaning of a speech of performance that may contradict the manifest or surface content of what is being said.