According to President Obama's chief speech-writer, a speech that will resonate powerfully through the mass media needs to be loaded with clever phrases and word-trickery

Indicate whether this statement is true or false.


FALSE

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Which of the following statements is true?

A. Routine behaviors are generally more important for maintaining relationships than are strategic behaviors. B. Married and engaged couples report using fewer assurances and task sharing than dating couples. C. Couples who are in serious dating relationships report using more openness and positivity than couples who are married or casually dating. D. After the honeymoon stage, married couples report a steady increase in their use of maintenance behavior.

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If you are mindlessly flipping through channels while focused on the conversation you’re having with you friend, you are consuming television messages in:

a. the attentional state b. the transported state c. the automatic state d. the self reflexive state

Communication & Mass Media

Which statement below is true?

a. In conflict among collectivists, the person who has more power is more likely to use silence as a cautionary conflict strategy. b. In conflict among collectivists, people are more likely to use indirect verbal messages but very direct nonverbal communication strategies. c. In conflict among individualists, people are not as likely to raise objections if they disagree with what the other party says. d. In conflict among individualists, very indirect and cautionary nonverbal communication is heavily relied upon.

Communication & Mass Media

For a speech on the history of a Native American family in Arizona, which organizational pattern would you be most likely to choose?

A. chronological B. cause-effect C. topical D. problem-solution E. spatial

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