Question 1
The human tendency to form careless beliefs about people based on their features or group identities is called ________.
· Question 2
According to the Alban text, the disappearance of outdated media technologies can present which type of barrier to communication?
· Question 3
According to the Alban text, different understandings of the same facial expression can present which type of barrier to communication?
· Question 4
The presence of commonness is an essential feature of communication.
· Question 5
Dr. Alban argues that it is questionable to argue that people are incapable of seeing at least some things in the same way.
· Question 6
Communis, the Latin term from which communication derives, means . . .
· Question 7
According to the Alban text, a word or phrase’s literal meaning is also sometimes called its _______ meaning.
· Question 8
This communication mode applies to situations in which people use media technology to distribute information to a large group of physically detached people.
· Question 9
In his statement, “I must be cruel to be kind,” Shakespeare uses which type of figurative wording?
· Question 10
Which type of figurative wording does the author of the following words use: “Ha! ha! ha!” roared Goodman Brown when the wind laughed at him.”
· Question 11
Monochronic cultures are less schedule-oriented than polychronic cultures.
· Question 12
The term for a person’s use of touch to send information is _______.
· Question 13
Which type of worldview system sees the world as a self-created, self-sustaining machine, consisting of material particles and processes and nothing more than this?
· Question 14
According to the Alban text, a redemptive communicator is someone who does what?
· Question 15
According to the Alban text, this term denotes the composite of someone’s beliefs about human origin, nature, purpose, and destiny, and about values, whether moral or aesthetic.
· Question 16
Which type of truth standard holds that a belief, feeling, or behavior is acceptable if it promotes the greatest good for humanity as a whole rather than for the individual?
· Question 17
According to the Alban text, existentialism is a sub-tradition of social constructionism.
· Question 18
According to the Alban text, existentialists view communication as something that tends to be positive.
· Question 19
According to the Alban text, the truth claims in God’s Word are true for all people at all times, even for people who deny or ignore them.
· Question 20
According to the Alban text, the Biblically Christian worldview recognizes history as a set of circular, meaningless events that will cease when God reenters the world to give it direction.
· Question 21
The Biblically Christian worldview regards truth to be what?
· Question 22
The fact that God enables us, through reasoning, observation, and Scripture, to make sense of communication means we can and always will arrive at the same conclusions about it.
· Question 23
The term ____________ denotes God’s undeserved act of giving humans immeasurable blessings that they, because of their corruption, have no right to expect from Him.
· Question 24
According to the Alban text, the Biblically Christian worldview recognizes that all people have an inherited sinful nature that estranges them from God and that pollutes their interactions with each other.
· Question 25
This twentieth century psychologist devised a hierarchy to show the needs that motivate humans to behave as they do.
· Question 26
According to the Alban text, God may use even a person’s wrongly motivated communications to promote His redemptive purposes.
· Question 27
According to the Alban text, nature, because it is corrupted, can communicate nothing about God to humans.
· Question 28
According to the Alban text, the stories people tell—whether fairy tales, personal anecdotes, song lyrics, or movie scripts—consistently manifest our longing for what?
· Question 29
According to the Alban text, the calling to be a redemptive communicator applies only to those who enter vocational Christian ministry fields, like missions and the pastorate.
· Question 30
According to the Alban text, if Malinoski’s model for explaining human behavior is flawed, it is for which of the following reasons?
