Chat with AIExam 7: Nonverbal Communication Skills
In what ways do understanding the concepts of immediacy, arousal, and dominance help us understand how our nonverbal cues are interpreted?
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Verified-Immediacy cues increase our sensory awareness of others.If people move away from us, we will probably interpret that as a negative reaction and vice versa.Touch is another immediacy cue that implies closeness or a preference to stay away.High feelings of affection may be accompanied by more immediacy cues.We tend to reciprocate immediacy cues from others, including proximity, body orientation, eye contact, facial expressions, gestures, posture, touch, and voice.We move toward persons and things we like, and we avoid or move away from those we dislike.
-People who are aroused and interested in us show animation in their face, voice, and gestures.A forward lean, a flash of the eyebrows, and a nod of the head are other cues that implicitly communicate arousal.Understanding these aspects of arousal can make us aware of when others are interested or uninterested in us.
-Dominance is often exercised nonverbally by the use of space, eye contact, facial expression, touch, voice, gesture, and posture.Our dominance over other people or vice versa is interpreted by others according to how we use these cues.
Identify and explain two of the four stages of quasi-courtship behavior.
(89) Verified-Courtship readiness occurs when we are initially attracted to someone.We try to adjust our image by sucking in our stomach, standing straighter, and tensing our muscles.
-Preening behaviors occur when we begin to manipulate our appearance by straightening our clothes, smoothing our hair, and double-checking our appearance in the mirror.
-Positional cues occur when we adjust our posture and orientation so as to be noticed.
-Appeals to invitation are signals that communicate our availability by close proximity, exposed skin, open body posture, and direct eye contact.
The most common nonverbal cues used to communicate liking within a U.S.population sample included an open body and arm position, a forward lean, and a relaxed posture.
Explain how understanding our own use of each of the following can help us understand how we communicate interpersonally with others: emblems, illustrators, affect displays, regulators, adaptors.
(67) Verified-Noting how often we use emblems instead of words might help us recognize how important they are to our relationships.We may use emblems that have unique meanings for us and the people with whom we communicate.
-Monitoring illustrators can help us determine whether we are sending mixed messages that confuse the people with whom we communicate.
-If other people have trouble reading our emotional state, then we may not be using affect displays appropriately, thus not projecting our feelings nonverbally.
-If we don't use regulators, or use them improperly, we may not give others a chance to talk or we may not let them know when we want to express something.
-If we misuse adaptors-scratching at the wrong time or wrong place, for example, we may offend or confuse the people with whom we communicate.Frequent self-adaptors, such as touching your cheek, may signal increased nervousness or self-consciousness.
Which of the following is the name for the zone of personal space used for personal interactions, typically ranging from 0 to 1.5 feet?
(80) Research suggests that women have greater variety in their emotional expressions and spend more time smiling than men.
(97) Which of the following choices have Ekman and Friesen identified as key sources of nonverbal cues?
(77) Your nonverbal behaviors may be sending messages that you are feeling anxious or nervous, even if you are not aware that you are feeling anxious or nervous.
(80) Identify the role that each of the four spatial zones identified by Hall plays in interpersonal relationships.
(81) In what stage of quasi-courtship behavior are we engaging when we manipulate our appearance by combing our hair, straightening our tie, and double-checking our appearance?
(83) Which function is involved when eye contact gives you information about another person's thought processes?
(88) The more at ease you are sharing silence in a relationship, the more comfortable you are together.
(79) Research suggests that facial expressions are contagious, meaning that when other people smile, we smile, and when they frown, we frown.
(96) Pushing your glasses back up on your nose, scratching a mosquito bite, or combing your hair are examples of adaptors.
(76) Alejandro was sitting by himself in the quad, leaned over, with his head resting on the heels of his hands.Joe approached and said, "Hey Alejandro, you look sad." Alejandro responded, "Huh? No, I'm just thinking." Which difficulty in interpreting nonverbal behavior does this exchange exemplify?
(81) While words are discrete entities, nonverbal behaviors are continuous.
(77) In which zone are you most comfortable talking with friends and family?
(77) When the verbal and nonverbal messages contradict, we tend to put more faith in the verbal.
(87) English speakers tend to use nonverbal illustrators at the beginning of clauses and phrases.
(81) Keith is studying human communication so he can gain greater expertise in the study of human movement and gesture, or
(85) Identify and briefly describe three of the four functions researchers have identified for eye contact in interpersonal interactions.
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