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Educational Communication explores the principles and strategies involved in effectively

transmitting and facilitating learning through various modes of communication within

educational settings. The course examines both interpersonal and mass communication

theories, the role of verbal and non-verbal cues, and the use of media and technology to

enhance instruction. Students will analyze barriers to communication, develop skills for

designing instructional messages, and learn techniques for engaging diverse learners,

with an emphasis on fostering active participation and ensuring clarity in educational

contexts.

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Interpersonal Communication Relating to Others 5th Canadian Edition by Steven A. Beebe

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 Chapter 1: Introduction to Interpersonal Communication
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Q1) Define mediated interpersonal communication and give an example.
Answer: Mediated interpersonal communication occurs when communication with
others is established or maintained by using media (such as e-mail, telephone, or
fax)rather than face-to-face encounters.

Q2) All of the following statements are true EXCEPT:

A)Grief-stricken spouses are more likely than others to die prematurely.
B)Being childless will likely lengthen one's life.
C)Terminally ill patients with a limited number of friends or no social support die sooner
than those with stronger ties.
D)One study found that middle-aged, childless wives were almost two-and-one-half
times more likely to die in a given year than those who had at least one child.
Answer: B

Q3) The person who decodes and tries to make sense out of a message is the
A)receiver.
B)information source.
C)transmitter.
D)encoder.
Answer: A

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 Chapter 2: Interpersonal Communication and Self
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Q1) Which are the most resistant to change?
A)beliefs
B)attitudes
C)values
D)concepts
Answer: C

Q2) Self-esteem is often defined as

A)your self-worth.
B)a description of yourself.
C)your material possessions.
D)your spirituality.
Answer: A

Q3) Under what conditions are we unlikely to incorporate the comments of others into
our self-concepts?
A)when an individual repeats something we have already heard several times.
B)when the other individual has earned our confidence
C)when comments are consistent with our own experiences and other comments.
D)when someone we have never met casually tells us we are good at something.
Answer: D

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 Chapter 3: Interpersonal Communication and Perception
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Q1) When you seek additional information through passive perception to either confirm
or refute your interpretations, you are engaging in
A)decentring.
B)attributing behaviour.
C)direct perception checking.
D)indirect perception checking.
Answer: D

Q2) The theory that suggests that a person's social position, power, or cultural
background, influences how the person perceives the behavior other others is called
A)implicit personality theory.
B)impression formation theory.
C)standpoint theory.
D)attribution theory.
Answer: C

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 Chapter 4: Listening and Responding
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Q1) "One tends to have difficulty coping with all of the demands of the Christmas season,
doesn't one?" This is an example of which type of disconfirming response?
A)impersonal response
B)irrelevant response
C)incoherent response
D)impervious response

Q2) The fear of misunderstanding or misinterpreting the messages of others, or of not

being able to adjust psychologically to messages spoken by others, is called
A)emotional noise.
B)ambush listening.
C)listener apprehension.
D)being self-absorbed.

Q3) Mentally summarize the message.

A)Information overload
B)Criticizing the speaker
C)External noise
D)Being self-absorbed
E)Unchecked emotions
F)Shifting Attention

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 Chapter 5: Verbal Communication Skills
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Q1) Thinking of a sister as "a person who will be there for you through thick and thin"
conveys which level of content for the word sister?
A)denotative
B)connotative
C)jargon
D)malapropism

Q2) Rather than using words like mailman, chairman or alderman

A)substitute the word "woman."
B)use words that are not gender specific.
C)use appropriate labels when you know the gender of the subject.
D)use the word "one."

Q3) Search for strengths and value the truth in what others say.
A)There is one right answer, and you have it.
B)The goal is to win.
C)The focus is on combat; prove that you are right and the other person is wrong.
D)Search for weakness and errors in other's positions.
E)Defend your views.

Q4) Explain the triangle of meaning.

Q5) Communication scholars suggest that words have power. What does this mean?

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 Chapter 6: Non-Verbal Communication Skills
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Q1) Express emotions.
A)Movements and Gestures
B)Eye Contact
C)Facial Expressions
D)Vocal Cues
E)Personal Space
F)Territory
G)Touch
H)Appearance

Q2) We make judgements about strangers in

A)four minutes.
B)thirty seconds.
C)a fraction of a second.
D)in one minute.

Q3) The space we feel most comfortable observing when visiting with family and friends
is
A)1½ feet to 4 feet.
B)0 to 1½ feet.
C)12 feet and more.
D)4 feet to 12 feet.

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 Chapter 7: Conflict Management Skills
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Q1) Which of the following best describes the perspective of a destructive conflict?
A)win-lose
B)win-win
C)lose-lose
D)constructive-destructive

Q2) How is conflict a process? Identify the stages of conflict by listing each stage and
explaining what occurs within each stage.

Q3) Saving face is especially important in

A)individualistic cultures.
B)feminine cultures.
C)collectivist cultures.
D)masculine cultures.

Q4) Our personality, our conflict partner, and situational factors such as time and place
of the conflict all influence
A)the conflict management style we choose.
B)the type of power we display.
C)the interpersonal communication skills we choose.
D)the type of conflict we engage in.

Q5) Describe the three different types of conflict.

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 Chapter 8: Interpersonal Communication and Cultural

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Q1) Denmark, New Zealand, and Israel prefer
A)decentralized power.
B)centralized power.
C)masculine perspectives.
D)group achievement.

Q2) Your friend, Tasha, is about to move to Italy with her family.She's naturally scared
about interacting with people she doesn't know who speak a language she doesn't
speak, and who have different cultural traditions and world views.What advice about
understanding and communicating with the new people she will meet can you give
Tasha?

Q3) What percentage of Canadians feel out of place in Canada because of their
ethnicity, culture, race, skin colour, language, accent, or religion?
A)20 percent
B)10 percent
C)30 percent
D)5 percent

Q4) Discuss the differences between masculine and feminine cultural perspectives.

Q5) Discuss the differences between those cultures that prefer individual achievement
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versus those that prefer group achievement.

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 Chapter 9: Understanding Interpersonal Relationships
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Q1) Explain how the elements of short-term initial attraction and long-term maintenance
attraction work.

Q2) Relational stability occurs when

A)one partner becomes submissive.
B)one partner becomes dominant.
C)partners reach an agreement about power in the relationship.
D)the power has been removed from the relationship.

Q3) Which of the following is NOT a true statement about how we evaluate relationships?
A)We can assess their current value.
B)We can forecast the future outlook of relationships.
C)We can evaluate relationships based on compliance gaining.
D)We can assess the cumulative costs and rewards.

Q4) Short-term initial attraction is best defined as

A)the coming into being of something.
B)the degree to which you are motivated to form or maintain an interpersonal
relationship.
C)the degree to which you sense a potential for an interpersonal relationship.
D)a relationship of choice.

Q5) Discuss social exchange theory as an economic model of relationships

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 Chapter 10: Developing, Maintaining, and Ending

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Q1) The point of de-escalation that represents the influence the relationship has on
future interactions and relationships is
A)separation.
B)post-interaction effects.
C)individualization.
D)de-intensification.

Q2) As the intimacy of the relationship increases, so too does

A)the ability to socially decentre and adapt.
B)relationship talk.
C)conflict.
D)affinity -seeking strategies.

Q3) When the relationship is ended according to a unilateral dissolution, one partner
must
A)choose a strategy.
B)demonstrate rhetorical sensitivity.
C)listen actively and respond confirmingly.
D)be tolerant and show constraint.

Q4) What are the three ways relationships end and how does each work?

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Q5) What is the difference between a bilateral dissolution and a unilateral dissolution?

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 Chapter 11: Interpersonal Relationships at Home, Through
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Q1) What is a "family" according to the text?
A)a social group having specified roles and statuses with ties of blood, marriage or
adoption that usually shares a common residence and cooperates economically
B)a continuing relationship of love and care, and an assumption of responsibility for
some other person
C)husbands, wives, and children who all live under one roof
D)a unit made up of any number of persons who live or have lived in relationship with
one another over time in a common living space and who are usually, but not always,
united by marriage and kinship

Q2) "Network Individualism" means that

A)even while connected, we are always alone.
B)while we are connected to a wide number of other people, we retain our individuality.
C)while we are connected to a wide number of other people, it is our decision whether or
not to respond to or send e-mail.
D)we are never actually alone when we are on the internet.

Q3) What is the circumplex model of family interaction?

Q4) Describe synchronous interaction and provide an example.

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