Amanda E., Kelly and Crystal's Questions

1. Which type of distraction results from the physical location where listening takes place?
a. Medium
b. Source
c. Environmental*
d. Representational
e. Relational

2. What type of listening occurs when people focus more on the message and self-presentation than on the message of the other person involved in the interaction?
a. Content listening
b. Egocentric listening*
c. Selective listening
d. Representational listening
e. Critical listening

3. What occurs when you daydream or think about things after the message being presented?
a. Wandering thoughts*
b. Superior thoughts
c. Inferior thoughts
d. Factual diversion
e. Semantic diversion

4. What becomes an obstacle to listening when a person finds a message so complex or confusing that he or she stops listening?
a. Critical listening
b. Past experience with the source
c. Distractions
d. Wandering thoughts
e. Message complexity*

Hypothetical Questions:
5. Melody was paying attention to Kevin's conversation and was putting herself in his position. Which step on the listening ladder is Melody stuck on?
a. Attending
b. Understanding*
c. Remembering
d. Evaluating
e. Responding

6. Sam's friend, John, confirmed the truth of his statements during his presentation with other sources. What is this an example of?
a. Argument against the source
b. Status of the source
c. Consistency
d. Varifiability*
e. None of the above

7. Ruby bought a new car that broke down the next week. What is this an example of?
a. Hasty generalization*
b. Bandwagon appeal
c. Division fallacy
d. Red herring
e. False alternatives

Kelsey and Jordan S.'s Questions

1. Betty Boop sent a ;) to Popeye. What is this an example of?
a. Smiley Face
b. Relationship
c. Emoticon*
d. Cartoon
e. Texting

2. The number of verbal and non- verbal cues available through a medium or technology determines _______________?
a. Richness*
b. Microcoordination
c. White Noise
d. Content Creation
e. Media Equation

3. When people interact in real time and can send and receive messages at once they are using what type of communication?
a. Verbal Communication
b. Asynchronous Communication
c. Media Generation Communication
d. Non- Verbal Communication
e. Synchronous Communication*

4. Joe Bob went to AT&T and bought a new cell phone. His purchase is referred to as what type of technology?
a. New Technology
b. Relational Technology*
c. Expensive Technology
d. Generational Technology
e. Content Technology

5. Which of the following is an example of Content Creation?
a. Blog
b. YouTube vidoes
c. Social Networking sites
d. All of the Above*
e. None of the Above

Amanda F. and Melissa's Questions

1) Stacy consistently interrupts the professor in class. She is kicked out of the class as punishment. This is an example of:
a. Group culture
b. Rudeness
c. Informal power
d. Group sanctions*
e. Formal power

2) The chairperson of the committee shows _____________.
a. Intelligence
b. Leadership*
c. Power
d. Judgment
e. None of the above

3) The store manager is ineffective in her job and no one listens to her. John is a cashier that the other employees get along with and respect. Through his good relationships, John has _____________.
a. Formal power
b. Friends
c. Popularity
d. Group culture
e. Informal power*

4) What form of communication diverts the group from its goals?
a. Motive
b. Counteractive
c. Disruptive*
d. Ineffective
e. All of the above

5) This type of power is represented by office rank or official status.
a. Legitimate
b. Expert
c. Referent
d. Reward
e. Coercive

Lauren and Kayli's Questions

1) What is an example of relational technology?
a) A toaster oven
b) TV
c) Twitter*
d) Vacuum cleaner
e) Satellites

2) Dolly Dearheart created an e-mail address which included her graduation year and nick name. This is an example of…
a) Diffusion of Innovations
b) Online Identity*
c) Rapid changes in technology
d) Culture
e) Self-worth

3) What is the Amygdala
a) A tasty pastry
b) A disease
c) The name of a famous scientist
d) Apart of the brain that reacts to stimuli and affects emotions*
e) None of the above

4) Kelly watches Breaking Amish religiously on Sundays. She uses this as a method for:
a) Escapism
b) Character reference
c) Reality exploration*
d) Incidental reasons
e) Coming together as a family

5) People use media as relational sources including:
a) Coming together as a family
b) Enacting/evaluating roles
c) Breaking up with significant other
d) A and B*
e) B and C

Jordan L. and Cooper's Questions

1) A group is assigned a project to write a 5 page paper. Each member of the group has agreed to write 1 page each. This is an example of:
*A) Interdependence*
B)Group Sanctions
C)Negative Norms
D)Group Culture

2) Cohesiveness is:
*A) teamwork - a group working in unison toward a common goal *
B)commitment - a group's ability to agree on something
C) interdependence - a group's ability to divide a job evenly
D)leadership - a formal position where a specific person has power over a group

3) A sorority/fraternity has met to decide whether a certain situation violated their bylaws. A sorority/fraternity is an example of:
A)support group
*B) advisory group *
C) creative group
D) networking group

4)which of the following is NOT an example of Fisher's model of group progression?
A) orientation
B) conflict
*C) storming *
D) emergence

5) an example of a group norm would be:
A) status relationships
B) share values
C) sanctions
*D)all of the above *

Jessica and Angie's Questions

1)Commercials for the new Barbie are targeted to little girls. This is an example of:
a) Narrowcasting*
b) Broadcasting
c) Typecasting
d) Media specification
e) None of the above

2) Negative acts such as ignoring, opposing, or attacking others, when placed in a family setting are collectively referred to as:
a) Going away actions
b) Going against actions*
c) Negative actions
d) Bad familial policy
e) All of the above

3) Susie’s dad read all the Harry Potter books out loud to the family. This is an example of what kind of media?
a) Isolated Media
b) Mass Media
c) Shared Media*
d) Connective Media
e) Networking Media

4) A compilation of all of your media preferences and general use of media, which informs others about who you are as a person is known as what kind of profile?
a) Facebook profile
b) Personality profile
c) Media profile*
d) Literary profile
e) Personal profile

5) A parasocial relationship is:
a) Relationships people from with media characters and personalities
b) Relationships with parasites
c) Relationships with people outside your normal social group
d) Relationships with the person that sits beside you in class
e) Relationships with you normal social group