T F 1. You can safely assume that fellow members of a group who have worked together for several years have the same referents for words.
T F 2. Each community of users of a language develops a unique subcode, the use of which identifies a person as belonging to that group or subculture.
T F 3. You are not likely to be accepted as a fall-fledged member of this group unless you learn to use these words as do other members when engaged in group discussions.
T F 4. Educated persons develop a style of speaking that they use in all social contexts.
T F 5. All languages reflect the same basic assumptions about the nature of human perception and the world.
T F 6. Regulating who speaks and when during a small group discussion is done primarily with words, such as a leader calling on persons by name.
T F 7. A much larger proportion of the meaning in response to spoken messages is based on the words than on the nonverbal signals perceived.
T F 8. Ideas are communicated more with words than with nonverbal signals.
T F 9. You cannot stop communicating while meeting with other group members.
T F 10. According to Brilhart, Galanes, and Adams, being intentionally vague and unclear when speaking during a team meeting is unethical behavior.
T F 11. Emotive language is an acceptable way to put down someone who has proposed a stupid idea during a discussion.
T F 12. Discussion flows more often among persons sitting side by side in a circle than among persons sitting across from each other.
T F 13. People sitting very close to each other in a group are less easily persuaded by each other than are persons in a group sitting farther apart.
T F 14. Virtually no communicative exchanges during discussions are completely verbal or nonverbal.
T F 15. Brief stories and statistics are more likely to disrupt discussion than are abstract statements.
T F 16. A referent is a word used to explain a general concept.
T F 17. Not all statements phrased as questions are requests for answers.
T F 18. "Kinesics" refers to the study of movements, such as emphatic or descriptive gestures.
T F 19. "Communicating effectively" implies that the group members have similar referents for the words they are using during discussion.
T F 20. Communication among members of a group begins when they start talking to each other.
T F 21. Though concrete words have meanings, abstract words do not.
T F 22. When the two types of signals in a message appear contradictory, the listeners are more likely to believe the nonverbals than the words.
T F 23. A speaker's affect (emotion) about a topic is more likely to be expressed in words than nonverbally.
T F 24. A person who takes up a lot of space at a meeting table is likely to have a low status in the group.
T F 25. Animation in voice and movement is likely to reduce one's influence in a group.
T F 26. Emotive words primarily evoke connotative responses.
T F 27. During a meeting, high status members are likely to appear more relaxed than low status members.
T F 28. Mesomorphs are more likely to be perceived as leaders than are endomorphs.
T F 29. Strokes are more appropriate than pats as signs of affecting and unity among members of American secondary groups.
T F 30. Group members whose faces are highly expressive of their feelings are likely to be more trusted than members who are "poker" faced.

31. To achieve the level of mutual understanding necessary to accomplish an interdependent goal, members of a small group must have referents for the verbal messages they create in discussion.
A. concrete
B. abstract
C. different
D. identical
E. similar

32. As used in Effective Group Discussion, "meaning" indicates something that occurs in
A. signals.
B. symbols.
C. messages.
D. people.
E. communication.

33. In American business culture, people who come late to meetings without a very good reason are considered to be
A. inconsiderate and selfish.
B. very busy.
C. poorly organized and careless.
D. powerful and of high status.
E. ineffective and of low status.

34. Extremely talkative group members are considered to be
A. bright and articulate.
B. high in leadership behaviors.
C. rude and selfish.
D. major sources of information and ideas.
E. nerds.

35. "Language code" refers to
A. the units of a language, such as words.
B. the rules of a language.
C. obscure symbols used to confuse enemies.
D. symbols for which you have no referents.
E. jargon used by specialists in a field.

36. The type of terms most likely to evoke defensiveness in listeners is words.
A. cliché
B. emotive
C. denotative
D. descriptive
E. metaphysical

37. When someone uses loaded language, such as racist or sexist words, Effective Group Discussion recommends that the discussion leader
A. rebuke the speaker.
B. ignore the remark.
C. paraphrase that statement in less connotative language.
D. paraphrase the statement in less denotative language.
E. ask the group to evaluate the validity of the statement.

38. In which response item are the following words arranged from MOST TO LEAST ABSTRACT? 1. guns; 2. war material; 3. military hardware; 4. 45 pistols; 5. weapons
A. 1,2,3,4,5
B. 4,1,5,3,2
C. 3,5,2,4,1
D. 2,3,4,1,5
E. 2,3,5,1,4

39. "Bypassing" means that two or more people
A. talk without listening or responding.
B. use the same words for different referents without realizing it.
C. use different words for the same referent, thinking they are talking about different items.
D. talk at each other without listening actively, producing disagreements and a lack of consensus.
E. use either the same words for different referents or different words for the same referent without realizing it.

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