FREE TMC Interpersonal Communication Questions and Answers

Question 1

Choose the term which is the least abstract:

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Personnel analyst

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Job

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Occupation

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Career

Question 2

Choose the term which is the most abstract:

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Leisure activity

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Hobby

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Wood carving

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Painting

Question 3

Indirect messages

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Allow you to express a thought without offending anyone

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Are most common in the individualist cultures

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Are more common with men than women

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Are most common in North American and British Cultures

Question 4

To express ones real thoughts, yet respect the other person is

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Assertiveness

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Nonassertive

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Ridiculous

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Aggressiveness

Question 5

People who focus only on their own needs are

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Aggressive

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Assertive

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Nonassertive

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Generous

Question 6

The discrimination against people with disabilities is called

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Ableism

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Ageism

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Institutionalism

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Racism

Question 7

Heterosexism refers to

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Attitudes, behaviors, and language that disparage gay men and lesbians

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A tendency to sexually harass both men and women

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Language that points to the differences among gay men and straight men

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Communications that reveal the sexual orientation of gay men and lesbians

Question 8

Disconfirmation is a communication pattern in which you

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Ignore someone's presence

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Disagree with a person

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Are unwilling to accept what someone says

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Acknowledge someone's significance

Question 9

Confirmation is a communication pattern in which you

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Accept a person's definition of self

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Say what someone has to say is not worth taking seriously

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Disagree with the person

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Ignore someone's presence

Question 10

When we make judgments of the whole based on only part, we are

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Using allness

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Creating polarization

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Bypassing

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Assuming things stay the same