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Foundations of Human Communication
True/False Questions

1 .       All information is communication. [Hint]

 
 


2 .       Communication must be ethical in order to be effective. [Hint]

 
 


3 .       Intrapersonal communication involves two or more people. [Hint]

 
 


4 .       According to the message transfer model, noise is always present. [Hint]

 
 


5 .       People pay more attention to nonverbal communication than speech. [Hint]

 
 


6 .       Language is a word, figure, sound, or nonverbal expression that represents a thought, concept, object, or idea. [Hint]

 
 


7 .       The simplest and oldest communication model is communication as action. [Hint]

 
 


8 .       Communication is unique to humans. [Hint]

 
 


9 .       The originator of a thought or emotion who puts that message into a code that can be understood by a receiver is called the source. [Hint]

 
 


10 .       Feedback is an intentional response to a message. [Hint]

 
 


11 .       Most scholars today feel that communication-as-transaction is the most realistic model for communication. [Hint]

 
 


12 .       We spend most of our waking hours communicating. [Hint]

 
 


13 .       Most people learn communication rules from taking courses like this one. [Hint]

 
 


14 .       When a doctor refers to a patient by his disease (the hepatitis in room 12) instead of his name, he is engaging in impersonal communication. [Hint]

 
 


15 .       When a CEO addresses the company's stockholders at the annual meeting, she is engaging in interpersonal communication. [Hint]

 
 






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