Burgoon argues that some nonverbal communication is so ambiguous that its interpretation is mediated by context
True or False
True
Messages sent without words are called nonverbal
communication
True or False
True
Kinesics refers to the study of the use of personal space
True or False
False
Haptics refers to the study of communication via smell
True or False
False
Edward Hall identified personal distance in North America as:
a. touching to 18 inches
b.18 inches to 4 feet
c. 4 feet to 12 feet
d. greater than 12 feet
e. none of the above
b.18 inches to 4 feet
The thawb is one example of how meaning is conveyed by:
a. clothing
b. silence
c. territory
d. time
e. none of the above
a. Clothing
Nonverbal communication can be broadly defined to refer to elements of the environment, such as the color of walls in a room, that communicate by virtue of people’s use of them.
True or False
True
The wai gesture reveals other aspects of Thai culture such as respect of parents and elders.
True or False
True
The study of our use of time is called:
a. chronemics
b. haptics
c. paralanguage
d. proxemics
e. none of the above
a. chronemics
Burgoon argues that much nonverbal communication does have consistent usage across cultures and, as such, forms a vocabulary of nonverbal symbols