Effective nonverbal communication is situational. To be effective, you should adapt your nonverbal messages to the specific situation

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.


Answer: True

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When Professor Glass lectures behind a lectern, far from her students, she is exhibiting

immediacy. Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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As the meeting stretches to three hours, Julie starts to experience a listening obstacle that involves fatigue, hunger, and having trouble summoning the energy needed to listen closely. This is an example of:

A) ?lack of effort. B) ?disremembering. C) ?reacting to emotionally loaded language. D) ?imposing preconceptions. E) ?not adapting to diverse listening styles.

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The second step in the perception process is ______.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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Peter Gordon, a psycholinguist at Columbia University, studied Brazil's Pirahas tribe and their use of language. He found that they had very few words for time and no words for numbers or numerical ideas. Gordon's study, published in the journal Science, found that the Pirahas were incapable of doing basic math, and in fact, they were incapable of learning even the concept of numbers, despite eight months of tutoring. The fact that this tribe of people could not conceive of something for which they had no vocabulary reflects what principle?

A. Linguistic determinism B. Ambiguous language C. Ladder of abstraction D. Linguistic relativity

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