A friend who does not notice your new haircut or a student who fails to see errors in a paper she or he has been editing for some time are examples of the inability to see the obvious. These examples illustrate how
a. familiarity influences our interpretation of stimuli.
b. unobservant people are regarding their environment.
c. gender influences interpersonal communication.
d. perceptions may be right or wrong.
e. None of the above.
a
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Prior to the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway, how large was the population of Koreans as compared to that of Russians in the Russian Far East?
A. Koreans were a small minority. B. Russians outnumbered Koreans. C. Half of the Siberian population was Russian and half was Korean. D. Koreans outnumbered Russians.
Explain why relevance is important for a speaker
What will be an ideal response?
People rely on government sources during a crisis as the most authoritative sources of information
a. True b. False
What is communication?
a) It occurs when a message sender’s intent and the receiver’s interpretation are the same. b) It occurs when two people share agreement in their interpretation of an experience or event. c) It occurs when there is an exchange of messages between individuals for the purpose of influencing the meaning others assign to events. d) It occurs when there is an association of meanings that each person assigns to an activity or event for purposes of interpretation.