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Interpersonal Communication Questions and Answers

What are the five fundamental characteristics of language?

What are instrumental communication ruts?

If your girlfriend says she goes to the gym after work because you are never home, and you go out for drinks after work because she is working out, then your difference in perception is due to: A) Punctuation B) Stereotyping C) Fundamental attribution error D) Negativity effect E) Self-serving bias

Give a situtation in which someone may have used a familiar word but with a different meaning than you were accustomed to.

What daily challenges do we encounter in listening?

What are the key components of the deception concept? 

What should a person do when confronted with a conflict starter statement?

How can we avoid making conflict starter statements?

What would make you an effective or ineffective listener?

How does the show "Lie to Me" link with the deception concept within communciaton studies? Does it hold true to the concept? 

Have Facebook, Skype and texting increased or decreased the chances for long-distance relationships to be successful?

Plese share some experiences of using (personal) a handwritten note effectively. Plese share some experiences of using (pesonal) a handwritten note effectively.

In communication, weighing the rewards and dangers of self-disclosure, what advice would you give a woman who wants to tell her parents through a letter that she is in a relationship with another woman? Is self-disclosure appropriate to the speaker/listener relationship?

How would one categorize a conflict involving two people engaged in name-calling and personal attacks on each other?

Are you a good communicator? What is your interpersonal communication style?

Discuss a personal relationship or multiple that you value, and share why.

How does developing a friendship online compare with developing a friendship face-to-face? This is in my Interpersonal communication class

Why are these statements about communication—"Communication will solve any problem," and "More communication is always better"—false?

How could the deception concept be improved, or how could it be modified to be even better?