Prince George Community College » Communication » Com 1090 - Interpersonal Communication » Fall 2022

Question #1

The strategy where communicators respond to one end of the dialectical spectrum and ignore the other is

A. disorientation.

B. alternation.

C. denial.

D. segmentation.

Question #2

Almost every message has

A. content dimension.

B. both a content and a relational dimension.

C. relational dimension.

D. an unintentional message.

Question #3

Talking the most, interrupting the other person, and changing the topic most often are all common indicators of

A. decision control.

B. context control.

C. conversation control.

D. powerful control.

Question #4

The term used to describe messages that people exchange, verbally or nonverbally, about their relationship is

A. metacommunication.

B. discourse.

C. microcommunication.

D. conversation.

Question #5

Of the following, what is not a category of relational transgressions?

A. one-time vs. incremental

B. deliberate vs. unintentional

C. open vs. private

D. social vs. relational