According to communication experts, what type of speech pattern decreases the speaker's perceived assertiveness in speech?
a. Overgeneralizations
b. Name-calling
c. Disclaimers
d. Overkill
c
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What will be an ideal response?
Eysenck's study on recall as a function of level of processing showed
a. processing makes only minimal difference to recall. b. old people don't learn anything. c. just telling someone to learn a list of words doesn't work. d. recall increases with the level of processing.
Jones termed race as socially defined on the basis of ____ criteria, and ethnicity as socially defined on the basis of ____ criteria."
a. physical, cultural b. cultural, physical c. cultural, national d. psychological, cultural
If you have 15 red socks (individual, not pairs), 24 green socks, 17 blue socks, and 100 black socks, what is the probability you will reach in the drawer and randomly select a pair of green socks? (Assume sampling without replacement.)
a. 0.3022 c. 0.0228 b. 0.3077 d. 0.0227