Exam 8: Vocalics: Engaging the Voice and Other Vocalizations

Pause occurs when a speaker stresses either syllables or whole words in order to make them stand out as important or significant in context of the rest of that utterance.

A voice that has an ethereal or airy quality to it has the vocal quality of ______.

When Peter shared stories with his friends, they enjoyed the way he added drama by saying some words louder and holding them longer than others. However, when he used this same vocal characteristic in his public speaking class, his instructor pointed out that he needed to adapt his use of ______ when delivering a speech.

When he was a young boy, Luca moved with his family from Romania to the United States. While he was excited to be living in the same country where the Disney movies that he knew and loved were made, he was disappointed when he had trouble fitting in at this new school where the other kids made fun of him due to his ______.

If one person fails to converge with another person's communication style, it's often interpreted by the person not receiving that convergence as a negative relational message.

The first principle of CAT states that communication is influenced by ______.

The vocal property of resonance is characterized by a deep and reverberating voice, common in television voiceovers.

Those characteristics of the voice that are relatively stable within an individual person, even though those same characteristics may vary widely from person to person are known as ______.

Using an example from your personal experience, describe a situation when your perception of another person and their message was influenced by their accent. What were the circumstances and what, if any, were the consequences?

Scholar Howard Giles developed a theory about how people pick up the expressions or mannerisms of people around them referred to as CAT which stands for______ Theory.

The way we use our voices has little impact on how individuals perceive us.

The second principle of CAT states that when people communicate they exchange both content and ______ information.

Communication that occurs during silence is often ______.

Pause is the empty space between words which is ______.

Nonverbal divergence occurs when one person uses a strategy of accentuating the differences in communication style between themselves and another person because they want to ______.

When both parties in a relationship are happy with the relationship as it is, they may engage in an unchanging pattern of ______.

What attitudes and behaviors distinguish a relationship expressing convergence from a relationship expressing divergence?

The average woman's voice typically displays a higher pitch than the average of those of men due to differences in the thickness of their vocal chords.

Thinness is a vocal quality most often associated with women who also possess higher pitch.

How do content messages differ from relational messages?