Test Bank For Experience Communication 1st Edition By Child

Chapter 01

Communication, Perception, and Your Life

True / False Questions

1. One reason to study communication is that communication skills allow you to manipulate others so you can achieve your goals without them even being aware of what you are doing.
   FALSE

Blooms: Understanding
Topic: Benefits of studying communication

2. Studying communication may improve the way you see others.
   TRUE

Blooms: Remembering
Topic: Benefits of studying communication

3. Communication is a product, not a process.
   FALSE

Blooms: Understanding
Topic: Communication

4. The situation in which communication occurs is irrelevant to its success or failure.
   FALSE

Blooms: Applying
Topic: Communication

5. Communication includes both people and messages.
   TRUE

Blooms: Remembering
Topic: Communication components

6. The action model of communication, which suggests that communication is linear (one-way), more accurately describes the process than does the transactional model of communication.
   FALSE

Blooms: Applying
Topic: Communication models

7. The process of using the senses to acquire information about the surrounding environment is known as communication.
   FALSE

Blooms: Remembering
Topic: Effects of Perception