Interpersonal Communication Purpose MCQs
Interpersonal Communication Purpose MCQs
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1: Message travels through a medium or passageway is called
A. A) Channel
B. B) Context
C. C) Decoding
D. D) Encoding
2: Communication is a process involving both -------- and deliberate transfer
A. A) Accidental
B. B) Spontaneous
C. C) Casual
D. D) Secondary
3: The unique blend of characteristics presented in both physical and online worlds is communication presence.
A. True
B. False
4: A relationship based on differences in which the parties engage in opposite behaviors.
A. A) Symmetrical relationship
B. B) Individual relationship
C. C) Complementary relationship
D. D) Collective relationship
5: The setting in which communication takes place is known as
A. A) Effect
B. B) Context
C. C) Feed-forward
D. D) Communication
6: ---------- is the ability to understand the role cultural prescriptions play in shaping communication.
A. A) Complementary relationship
B. B) Cultural awareness
C. C) Diversity
D. D) Interactions
7: Dyad is interaction of --------
A. A) Two-person
B. B) Team-work
C. C) Solo work
D. D) Three-person
8: Effect is the result of a communication gap.
A. True
B. False
9: External feed-back is -------from others.
A. A) Signals
B. B) Responses
C. C) Suggestions
D. D) Symbols
10: Feedback is Information received in exchange for a -------- sent.
A. A) Email
B. B) Message
C. C) Signal
D. D) Response
11: A variant of feedback sent before message’s delivery to suggest something to follow is called
A. A) Feed-forward
B. B) Feed-backward
C. C) Positive feedback
D. D) Negative feedback
12: ------ are socially constructed roles of members of a given society which are appropriate for men and women.
A. A) Gender
B. B) Population
C. C) Community
D. D) Team
13: High-monitored feedback is feedback which is not sent intentionally.
A. True
B. False
14: Interaction model is a representation of communication as a ----------.
A. A) Feed-forward
B. B) Feed-backward
C. C) Back and forth-process
D. D) High-monitored feed-back
15: A person’s response to his or her own performance is called as
A. A) External feedback
B. B) Internal feedback
C. C) Monitored feedback
D. D) Gender feedback
16: A dynamic process occurring when a dyad is formed-------
A. A) Interpersonal communication
B. B) Intrapersonal communication
C. C) Written communication
D. D) Personal communication
17: A person’s response to his or her own performance is called as
A. A) External feedback
B. B) Internal feedback
C. C) Monitored feedback
D. D) Gender feedback
18: A dynamic process occurring when a dyad is formed-------
A. A) Interpersonal communication
B. B) Intrapersonal communication
C. C) Written communication
D. D) Personal communication
19: Intra-personal communication is requiring-------
A. A) Single communicator
B. B) Dyad
C. C) Triads
D. D) Tetrads
20: The term used for the ability of proper communication for building and maintaining effective relationships.
A. A) Personal competence
B. B) Incompetence
C. C) Intrapersonal competence
D. D) Interpersonal competence
21: Low-monitored feedback is sincere and spontaneous.
A. True
B. False
22: Messages are the content of communication.
A. True
B. False
23: Responses that stop behavior in progress are
A. A) Negative feedback
B. B) Positive feedback
C. C) Criticism
D. D) Negative response
24: -------- is a thing that interferes with or impedes the ability to send or receive a message.
A. A) Noise
B. B) Echo
C. C) Sound
D. D) Volume
25: Positive Feedback are responses that --------- behavior in progress.
A. A) Maximize
B. B) Enhance
C. C) Diminish
D. D) Boost
26: Reasoned Sensemaking is the ability to -----and --------- for the behavior of a particular person.
A. A) Predict, account
B. B) Predict, evaluate
C. C) Evaluate, account
D. D) Simplify, account
27: The ability to make sense of one’s own behavior is
A. A) Reasoned sense making
B. B) Retrospective sense making
C. C) Respective sense making
D. D) Irrespective sense making
28: Role Duality is the simultaneous performance of the roles of sender and receiver by the members of a ------.
A. A) Triad
B. B) Dyad
C. C) Community
D. D) Person
29: Example of a symmetrical relationship is when two parties mirror each other.
A. True
B. False
30: A representation of communication which shows source and receiver continually influence one another.
A. A) Transactional model
B. B) Inter-sectional model
C. C) Reactional model
D. D) Alternate model
31: John has the ability to communicate effectively with others. We call this interpersonal ______.
A. Capability
B. Competence
C. Aptitude
D. Confidence
32: Feedback can be positive or negative.
A. True
B. False
33: Interpersonal communication is not something we can learn.
A. True
B. False
34: In the ______ model, sending and receiving are depicted as simultaneous rather than distinctly separate acts.
A. Interactional
B. Linear
C. Transactional
D. Response
35: Intrapersonal communication occurs when you think or talk to yourself, but ______ communication occurs when you interact with another person.
A. Intrapersonal
B. Personal
C. Interpersonal
D. Interactional
36: In a symmetrical relationship, the parties engage in opposite behaviors.
A. True
B. False
37: When we are using retrospective sensemaking, we are making sense of our own behavior once it has occurred.
A. True
B. False
38: Noise includes anything that interferes with or impedes our ability to send or receive a message.
A. True
B. False
39: ______ is/are information we receive in response to messages we have sent.
A. Answers
B. Replies
C. Criticism
D. Feedback
40: When we are influenced in some way by an interaction, we are experiencing the ______.
A. Effect
B. Feedback
C. Impact
D. Impression
41: ____________________ can cause major problems in both creating relationships and sustaining them.
A. Fear of intimacy
B. Feminine Intimacy Styles
C. Masculine Intimacy Styles
D. Culture and Intimacy
42: _______________ is the force that draws people together.
A. Physical attraction
B. Social attraction
C. Attraction
D. Interpersonal attraction
43: ________ attraction is the force that draws people together to form relationships.
A. Interpersonal
B. Physical
C. Social
D. Task
44: Combinations of two or more expressions showing different emotions are called __________.
A. Affect blends
B. Behavioral illustrators
C. Behavioral manipulators
D. Emblems
E. Microexpressions
45: Communicators who want to set themselves apart from others adopt the strategy of __________.
A. Convergence
B. Divergence
C. Rejection
D. Sequential
E. Placement
46: Gottman claims that _____________ is not the sign of a troubled relationship.
A. Complaining
B. Harsh start-up
C. Certainty
D. Neutrality
E. None of the above
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