Exam 4: D: Verbal Communication

Making direct eye contact with another person is considered to be a sign of interest and respect throughout the world.

Immediacy refers to how quickly or slowly a communicator responds with feedback.

While you are engaged in a heated telephone conversation with one of your coworkers, your roommate walks up and asks you a question. Without breaking from the telephone conversation, you hold your hand out toward your roommate as if to say, "Not now-I'm on the phone." In this scenario, your nonverbal behaviors serve the adaptive function.

A polite handshake between colleagues would be defined as functional-professional touch.

When a person's nonverbal behavior contradicts his or her verbal communication, we tend to believe the verbal message because it is more intentional.

You and your significant other like to revisit the restaurant where you had your first date and always request to sit at the same table where you first sat. On your anniversary, you arrive at the restaurant to find another couple sitting at "your table," and you feel frustrated. Your claiming of the table would be referred to as a proxemic behavior.

Immediacy cues, such as smiling, nodding in agreement, and pausing to allow others to speak, can foster a closer working relationship between people.

Research in nonverbal communication has concluded that it is, indeed, possible to accurately determine if another person is lying just by monitoring that person's nonverbal behavior.

Sign language is an example of nonverbal communication.