Chapter 2: Vocabulary Skills
Lab Activity 10: Vocabulary Skills tbskils_small.gif
 

tbskils.gifObjective
To use context clues and word parts to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words in a college textbook selection.


arrow.gif Step 2: Read the following items from a college textbook, and answer the questions that follow.


      9. Culture is transmitted from one generation to another through enculturation, a process by which you learn the culture into which you are born (your native culture).

— DeVito, The Interpersonal Communication Book, 10th ed., p. 37

Enculturation is

 

 
 
 
 
      10. Culture is transmitted from one generation to another through enculturation, a process by which you learn the culture into which you are born (your native culture).

— DeVito, The Interpersonal Communication Book, 10th ed., p. 37

Transmitted begins with the prefix trans-, which means

 

 
 
 
 
      11. A different process of learning culture is acculturation, the process by which you learn the rules and norms of a culture different from your native culture. Through acculturation, your original or native culture is modified by direct contact with (or exposure to) a new and different culture.

— DeVito, The Interpersonal Communication Book, 10th ed., p. 37

Acculturation is the process  

 
 
 
 
      12. A different process of learning culture is acculturation, the process by which you learn the rules and norms of a culture different from your native culture. Through acculturation, your original or native culture is modified by direct contact with (or exposure to) a new and different culture.

— DeVito, The Interpersonal Communication Book, 10th ed., p. 37

The suffix -ure in exposure means  

 
 
 
 
      13. Relationships may be viewed on a continuum, from the impersonal at one end to highly personal (that is, interpersonal) at the other end. Interpersonal relationships are those that exist between people who are interdependent, where one person's behavior has a significant impact on the other person. We can distinguish interpersonal relationships from impersonal relationships on the basis of three main factors: psychological data, explanatory knowledge, and personally established rules.

— DeVito, The Interpersonal Communication Book, 10th ed., p. 234

A continuum is  

 
 
 
 
      14. Impersonal means 

 
 
 
 
      15. The prefix inter- in interpersonal means  

 
 
 
 
      16. The root pend in interdependent means  

 
 
 
 
      17. Touch communication, also referred to as haptics, is perhaps the most primitive form of communication. Developmentally, touch is probably the first sense to be used; even in the womb, the child is stimulated by touch. Soon after birth, the child is fondled, caressed, patted, and stroked. In turn, the child explores its world through touch. In a very short time, the child learns to communicate a wide variety of meanings through touch.

— DeVito, The Interpersonal Communication Book, 10th ed., p. 189

The term haptics refers to  

 
 
 
 
      18. The suffix -ive in primitive means  

 
 
 
 
      19. The suffix -ate in stimulated means  

 
 
 
 
      20. The prefix com- in communicate means  

 
 
 
 





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