Test Bank For Human Communication, 7th Edition

Chapter 02 Test Bank 1. Define perception and explain in an essay the differences between the active and subjective views of perception. Answers will vary. Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Understand 2. How do identity factors affect perception? Answers will vary. Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Remember 3. Explain how past experiences are influenced by perception constancy. Answers will vary. Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Understand 4. Write an essay in which you state how selection, organization, and interpretation function in perception. Answers will vary. Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Understand 5. Provide an example that is not in the book of how figure and ground operate to organize our perceptions. Answers will vary. Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Apply 6. Define and provide an example of how proximity might be used to organize perception. Answers will vary. Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Understand 7. Compare and contrast closure and similarity as they help us organize perceptions. Answers will vary. Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Understand 8. A car accident occurs, and the two witnesses tell very different stories about what they saw. Use what you know about perception to explain the differences. Answers will vary. Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Apply 9. How can current social and political events influence perception? Answers will vary. Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Understand 10. Explain the difference between stereotypes and prejudice. Answers will vary. 2-1 Copyright © 2020 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education. Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Understand 11. Write an essay describing an example from your own life where culture affected your perception. Clearly explain how culture impacted your view of the situation. How might someone from a different culture have perceived the same instance? Answers will vary. Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Apply 12. Discuss an example of how you have used interpretive perception. Answers will vary. Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Apply 13. Perception is the process of using the senses to acquire information about the surrounding environment or situation. TRUE Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Remember 14. The phrase “No matter who sees a chair, they all see the same chair” illustrates the idea of active perception. FALSE Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Understand 15. The position adopted in the book is that everyone sees everything in his or her own unique way. TRUE Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Remember 16. Our physical characteristics are unrelated to our perceptions. FALSE Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Remember 17. Temporary conditions such as fatigue, hunger, or a headache can affect your perceptions. TRUE Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Remember 18. Perceptual constancy means that past experience has little effect on our perceptions. FALSE Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Remember 19. People of different cultures tend to perceive things in the same way. FALSE Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Remember 20. The process of perception includes selection, organization, and interpretation. TRUE Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Remember 21. Noticing the women in the room more than the men in the room is an example of selective attention. TRUE Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Understand 2-2 Copyright © 2020 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education. 22. Proximity is when we organize stimuli based on their likeness or similarity. FALSE Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Remember 23. A speech of self-introduction initially requires intrapersonal communication. TRUE Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Remember 24. We use similarity to engage in the organization of stimuli. TRUE Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Remember 25. Ground is what you focus on the most; figure is the context in which you see the ground. FALSE Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Remember 26. Closure is related to how we organize stimuli. TRUE Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Remember 27. “Birds of a feather flock together” is an expression that illustrates the concept of closure. FALSE Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Understand 28. When you perceive nine lines as three groups rather than as nine unconnected lines, you are illustrating the concept of proximity. TRUE Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Understand 29. Interpretive perception involves only internal stimuli. FALSE Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Remember 30. Prejudices can be positive where you pre-judge that another person is “good” without any evidence. TRUE Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Remember 31. Prejudices interfere with our accurate perceptions of others. TRUE Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Remember 32. Stereotypes are initially based on classifications of people. TRUE Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Remember 33. Prejudices and stereotypes are unrelated. FALSE Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation 2-3 Copyright © 2020 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education. Bloom’s level: Remember 34. Personal identity is the perception of what makes an individual unique with regard to various personality characteristics, interests, and values. TRUE Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Remember 35. Impression management is sharing personal details in order to present an idealized self. TRUE Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Remember 36. How you perceive yourself plays a central role in communication. TRUE Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Remember 37. The idea that our past experiences lead us to see the world in a particular way that is difficult to change is called A. perceptual constancy. B. selective retention. C. cultural selection. D. stubbornness. Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Remember 38. Which of the following is the best example of how role affects perception? A. I am a Cuban American whose parents fled Havana in 1906. B. I am an honor student and president of the student body. C. I am a biracial person. D. Although few know it, I am a former Baptist. Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Understand 39. Which statement about stereotyping is true? A. Stereotyping occurs when we have had a long time to form an informed opinion about someone. B. Some stereotypes are positive. C. Our stereotypes of people from different groups are often positive. D. We try to find similarities between ourselves and the people we stereotype. Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Remember 40. Which of the following activities does NOT occur in perception? A. exploration B. interpretation C. organization D. selection Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Remember 41. Which of the following is the best example of selective attention? A. She immediately spotted the guy with the earring who looked so much like someone she had known before. B. They agreed with each other because they both liked the idea of government ownership of basic industry. C. He was an expert “body man” in a chop shop; she was a hair stylist in the low-rent district. D. They fought constantly over how the children should be disciplined. Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Understand 42. When you remember how wonderful your first supervisor was but forget how often she made you feel inadequate, then you are exhibiting the perception concept called A. selective retention. B. stereotyping. C. sexual discrimination. 2-4 Copyright © 2020 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education. D. selective attention. Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Understand 43. Which of the following would be the reason an individual looking at a class picture might see his or her own face first? A. its proximity to the other faces B. it is figure and the rest of the class is ground C. it is the image that allows closure D. it is ground and the rest of the class is figure Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Understand 44. If I notice that Heng and Yolanda are often together and I “fill in” my inference that they are now dating, then I am illustrating the concept of perception called A. closure. B. figure and ground. C. proximity. D. filtering. Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Understand 45. Which of the following is NOT cited in the book as one of the three reasons differences in perception occur? A. identity factors B. past experience C. present feelings and circumstances D. present eating habits Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Remember 46. Perception checking is a skill that helps us A. understand another person and his or her message more accurately. B. view everyone as equals. C. compare our behaviors with others’ behaviors. D. ignore damaging or harmful information. Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Remember 47. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of active perception? A. subjective B. interpretive C. active D. simplistic Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Remember 48. The process of development of the self through the messages and feedback received from others is called A. personal identity B. symbolic interactionism C. perceptual constancy D. impression management Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Remember 49. According to the textbook, first impressions A. are based on comparisons to ourselves. B. provide accuracy in our perceptions of others. C. involve group communication among different groups. D. occur independent of the communication context. Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Remember 2-5 Copyright © 2020 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education. 50. If Anu was unable to control his communication in a way that presented an “idealized” version of himself, he would be lacking in A. self-accrual. B. impression management. C. interaction control. D. symbolic portrayal. Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Understand 51. Which of the following would NOT be an example of an identity factor that affects perception? A. mental distractions such as daydreaming B. a transgender identity C. a background in Roman Catholicism D. a woman who weighs 97 pounds Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Understand 52. A person groups stimuli into meaningful units during which part of perception? A. selection B. interpretation C. organization D. interactionism Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Remember Category Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Apply Bloom’s level: Remember Bloom’s level: Understand # of Questions 52 4 30 18 2-6 Copyright © 2020 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.