COMM 1500 Exam 1 Review

Communications (with an -s on the end) is focused on which area of study:

• Interplay of information and ideas

• The constitutive nature of human communication

• Communication technologies and telecommunications

• The relational, processual, and cultural study of communication

Which of the following is FALSE regarding the use of email?

• Email is a dominant form of professor-student communication

• Email is always the best option when communicating with a professor

• Email is a personal form of communication

• Email is ideal for building and ruining relationships

Which of the following areas of Communication Studies focuses on the study of the influences of communication in educational contexts?

• Online Communication

• Political Communication

• Translational Communication

• Instructional Communication

_______ is known as our “capacity to be sensitive to the communication of others, to be a good listener, to make others comfortable in communicating, and to recognize the needs and desires of others.”

• Responsiveness

• Nonverbal Immediacy

• Affinity-Seeking

• Audience Analysis

Which of the following reasons for using social media focuses on learning more about the world around us?

• Social Connection

• Shared Identities

• Social Investigation

• Social Network Surfing

Based on the research, what advice would you give to online daters?

• Post only bathroom selfies

• Lie about your last relationship

• Present only your best attributes

• Don't wait too long to meet in person

Millennial professors are more lenient with email expectations and you don’t have to treat them as professionally as professors from previous generations.

• Yes

• No

One of the student learning outcomes of this course is to enhance our appreciation of memes.

• Yes

• No

The most important definition of “rhetoric” is “the attempt by one person or group to influence another through strategically selected and stylized symbolic action.”

• Yes

• No

Asynchronous Communication is:

• Communication that does not happen simultaneously

• Communication that happens when you're talking on the phone

• Communication that happens simultaneously

• Communication that fails because of internet technology