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COMM 307 Exam 1 Quiz collection with Answers 1) Which early scientist's theories ultimately led to the division between physical and social sciences? - Correct answer Charles Darwin 2) Which early communication theorist believed that science worked against the enthusiasm and inspiration needed by public speakers? - Correct answer Everett Lee Hunt 3) According to the study conducted by Wickersham, Sherblom, and Ricmond (2004), examining the top concepts studied in the field of communication, which of the following are the top 5? - Correct answer General Communication, Perception, Relationships, Students, Apprehension 4) What is the process by which one person stimulates meaning in the mind of another person through verbal and nonverbal messages? - Correct answer Communication 5) Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver(1949) are best known for which model of communication - Correct answer Source - Message - Channel - Receiver model 6) Morse code, Radios, Television and the internet are all examples of which part of the SCMR model of communication? - Correct answer Channel 7) When the letter "s" is added to the end of the word "communication," what does it signify? - Correct answer The use of mediated technologies 8) What is the process of creating messages that we believe represent the meaning to be communicated and are likely to stimulate similar meaning in the mind of the receiver? - Correct answer Encoding 9) Which prominent research university's method for teaching quantitative research methods is our textbook based on? - Correct answer West Virginia University 10)In ancient Greece, people regularly differentiated between the physical and social sciences. True or False? - Correct answer False 11)William James was the first social scientist in the United States to explore how Darwin's theory of natural selection could be applied in the social sciences. True or False? - Correct answer True 12)What is the studious inquiry or examination, especially investigation or experimentation aimed at the discovery and interpretation, of facts, revision of accepted theories or laws in the light of new facts, or practical application of such new or revised theories or laws? - Correct answer Research 13)Based on the Major and Minor Premise what should the correct hypothesis be? 14)Major Premise: Beatty Behnke, and Henderson (1980) found that respondents scored higher on the receiver apprehension test when information required psychological adjustment. 15)Minor Premise: In a situation where people are surprised and overwhelmed as a result of a crisis situation, it is possible that the traumatic stress of the actual situation would require greater psychological adjustment on the part of the receivers, so they would report lower levels of understanding of the crisis itself. - Correct answer There will be a negative relationship between an individual's level of receiver apprehension and her or his perceived understanding of the crisis. 16)Which of the following are the two epistemological approaches in the field of communication? - Correct answer Humanism/Social Science 17)Which of the following presents the correct order of the scientific method? - Correct answer Observations > Empirical Generalizations > Theories > Predictions 18)According to West and Turner (2006), what is a proposed explanation for how a set of natural phenomenon will occur, be capable of making predictions about the phenomena for the future, and be capable of being falsified through empirical observation? - Correct answer Theory 19)Which important researcher first argued that all theories must be falsifiable? - Correct answer Karl Popper 20)For the purpose of social scientific research, which is the most important way to explain phenomenon? - Correct answer Appeal to general empirical rules 21)The story of Clever Hans described in the text is a good example of which aspect of observing phenomena? - Correct answer control 49)Major Premise: In a study by Wrench, McCroskey, and Fiore (2004), the researchers found a small but positive relationship between assertiveness and ethnocentrism 50)Minor Premise: Wrench an McCroskey (2003) found that males reported higher ethnocentric and homophobia levels than females 51)Therefore... - Correct answer Males should report higher levels of assertiveness when compared to females 52)Major Premise: In a study by Wrench, McCroskey, and Fiore (2004), the researchers found a small but positive relationship between assertiveness and ethnocentrism 53)Minor Premise: Wrench and McCroskey (2002) found a relationship between ethnocentrism and homoengativity 54)Therefore... - Correct answer There should be a positive relationship between assertiveness and homonegativity 55)Major Premise: Christophel (1990) found a positive relationship between learning and student motivation in the traditional classroom context. 56)Minor Premise: Research has shown a positive relationship between employee motivation and job satisfaction 57)Therefore... - Correct answer Organizational learning should lead to increased levels of job satisfaction 58)Major Premise: All mammals are living 59)Minor Premise: All lizards are reptiles 60)Therefore... - Correct answer Not enough information to form a conclusion 61)Major Premise: Passengers on airplanes like flight attendants who use humor 62)Minor Premise: There is a positive relationship between liking someone and trusting them 63)Therefore... - Correct answer Fight attendants who use humor will be more trusted by passengers 64)In the following syllogism, indicate the veracity of the statements and argument: 65)Major Premise: All extraterrestrials are rich 66)Minor Premise: Dr. McCroskey is an Oklahoma fan. Therefore, Oklahoma fans are extraterrestrials. - Correct answer The major premise is false so the conclusion is invalid 67)If this month is September, the next month is October. The antecedent in this hypothetical proposition is - Correct answer September 68)Which of the following is NOT a Scientific Field? - Correct answer Geometry 69)Are you smarter than a Third Grader? Please compute the following: 150 X 2 = - Correct answer 300 70)Are you smarter than a Fifth Grader? Please compute the following: 6 - 3 = - Correct answer None of the above 71)Are you smarter than your teammate sitting on your left? Please identify the grade you desire on this quiz - Correct answer A 72)What is an original document that examines a phenomenon - Correct answer Primary source 73)While researching her topic on german migrants, Sarah runs across an article by Downing (2004) where the author utilized a primary source that Sarah wants to use. Unfortunately the primary source is written in German and Sarah doesn't read German. Instead, she decides to cite Downing's (2004) summarization of the German language article. What has Sarah done? - Correct answer Utilized a secondary source 74)What type of data base search type searches for key terms that the author has submitted to the subject field to describe the article or book? - Correct answer Subject Search 75)While conducting an internet search, Ashok types in Communication NOT Apprehension. Which of the following describes what she receives during her search? - Correct answer Web pages where the word communication appears but not the word apprehension 76)Which search engine is best utilized if you are looking for government publications? - Correct answer www.firstgov.gov 77)Which of the following is NOT a question to ask about web sources? - Correct answer How subjective is the information? 78)What is wrong with the following APA citation: 79)Wrench, J. S., McCroskey, J. C., & Richmond, V. P. (2008). *italicized* Human communication in everyday life: Explanations and applications*italicized*. Allyn & Bacon: Boston. - Correct answer The city should come before the publisher 80)When you directly quote an author, you write an author's ideas in your own words. True or False? - Correct answer False 81)Which of the following is the correct APA citation for the following source... 82)Book 83)Author: Richard T. Walls 84)Title: Psychological Foundations of Learning 85)Year: 1999 86)Publisher: West Virginia University Press 87)School Affiliation: West Virginia University 88)City: Morgantown 89)State: West Virginia 90)Topic: Learning Theories 91)# of pages: 98 - Correct answer Walls, R. T. (1999). *italicized*Psychological foundations of learning*italicized*. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Press. 92)Sarah wants to see of male and female scores on the Religious Communication Apprehensions Scale are not the same. This would be an example of which kind of test? - Correct answer Difference 93)Carla is conducting a study of the impact of faith on political party affiliation. She creates a nominal category called "political party" for her study. She included the following attributes: Republican, Democrat, and Independent. Which characteristic of nominal variables did she violate? - Correct answer Must be exhaustive 94)Tika is conducting a study to determine whether biological sex (male, femae) impacts an individual's level of dogmatism. What is her independent variable? - Correct answer Biological Sex 95)The following scale is what type of interval measure? 96)I feel the classes content is: 97)Bad 1234567 good 98)Valuable 1234567 Worthless - Correct answer Semantic Differential 99)Darla is working on a study examining physician-patient interactions. One of her questions says: "How much time do you spend talking with your physician compared to an average patient?" She then gives them the possible choices: on this information, what can Tanuja say about her sample? - Correct answer The sample is flat and positively skewed 128) Oscar is in the process of running some basic descriptive sats. He receives information that his kurtosis is 0.30 and his skewness is 0.56. Based on this information, what can Oscar say about his sample? - Correct answer The sample is tall and positively skewed 129) Using the following set of numbers, determine the sum of squares: 2, 3, 4, 0 - Correct answer 8.75 130) Using the following set of numbers, determine the variance: 2, 3, 4, 0 - Correct answer 2.92 131) Using the following set of numbers, determine the standard deviation: 2, 3, 4, 0 - Correct answer 1.71 132) True or False... 133) Skewness lets a researcher know whether or not her or his data is flat or peaked - Correct answer False 134) True or False... 135) Inferential statistics tests allow researchers to make inferences about some unknown aspect of a population from a sample - Correct answer True 136) True or False... 137) Mean, Median, Mode, and Range are all examples of measures of central tendency - Correct answer False 138) True or False... 139) If you find that your standard deviation is 9, than your variance would be 3. - Correct answer False 140) True or False... 141) If a researcher has two interval variables, the appropriate relationship test would be a correlation - Correct answer True 142) True or False... 143) Research has shown us that as an individual's level of job satisfaction rises, her or his verbal aggression decreases. Conversely, as an individual's level of verbal aggression increases, her or his level of job satisfaction decreases. This is an example of a positive relationship - Correct answer False 144) True or False... 145) A positive relationship occurs when increases or decreases in an individual's scores on one variable correspond to increases or decreases in an individual's scores on a second variable. - Correct answer True 146) True or False... 147) When a researcher assume that because a participant is a member of a specific group (such as culture) he or she possesses all the same communication characteristics as the group, they have made a hasty genrealization - Correct answer False 148) True or False... 149) Birth order and biological sex are examples of abstract variables - Correct answer False 150) Sara wants to see if male and female scores on the Religious Communication Apprehension Scale are not the same. This would be an example of which kind of test? - Correct answer Difference 151) Carla is conducting a study of the impact of faith on political party affiliation. She creates a nominal category called "political party" for her study. She included the following attributes: Republican, Democrat, and Independent. Which characteristic of nominal variable did she violate? - Correct answer Must be exhaustive 152) Tika is conducting a study to determine whether biological sex (male or female) impacts an individual's level of dogmatism. What is her independent variable? - Correct answer Biologica Sex 153) The following is an example of an interval measure: 154) I feel the class content is 155) Bad 1234567 Good 156) Valuable 1234567 Worthless - Correct answer Semantic Differential 157) Darla is working on a study examining physician-patient interactions. One of her questions says, "How much time do you spend talking with you physician compared to an average patient?" She then gives the following possible choices: Less than average, Average, More than average - Correct answer Ordinal 158) Communication Apprehension, Nonverbal Immediacy, and Humor assessment all represent what type of variable? - Correct answer Interval 159) A researcher wants to determine if males and females differed on their communication competence. What will the dependent variable be? - Correct answer Communication Competence 160) Which level of measurement is contingent upon an absolute zero? - Correct answer Ratio 161) In a study conducted by two French Researchers, researchers found a significant difference in an individuals appetite if they were older than 50 when compared with those people under 50. In this study what was the dependent variable? - Correct answer Individual appetite 162) True or False... 163) A null hypothesis predicts that groups will not vary on a dependent variable or that there is no relationship between the two variables - Correct answer True 164) Gaige is in the process of conducting a study of examining the relationship between circus attendance and fear of clowns. He poses the following research questions: RQ1: Is there a negative relationship between circus attendance and fear of clowns? What kind of research question has Gaige asked? - Correct answer Directional Research Question 165) What is the following statement an example of. "There will be a significant difference between homeowners and non-homeowners on perception of domestic tranquility. - Correct answer Two Tailed hypothesis 166) When you test that there is no relationship between your variables or no differences between your variables, what are you testing? - Correct answer Null hypothesis 167) You have the following set of scores: 10, 20, 30, 30, 40, 40, 40, 40, 40, 50, 50, 50, 60, 60, 70, 80, 90... This curve is considered to be... - Correct answer Positively Skewed 168) Using the following set of numbers: 6, 1, 1, 0... determine the sum of squares - Correct answer 22