1. BCOM 275 Final Exam 4
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1. A receiver’s response to a sender’s message is called
2) The term channel in communication means
3) In which of the following communication activities do people spend the greatest
percent of their day?
4) This response style normally does not help unless the sender has asked for your
advice.
5) With this type of response, you analyze or teach the sender about the cause of his
or her concern.
6) When the receiver uses this response style, he clarifies or seeks more
information.
7) Which of the following are the most common types of doubts people may have
about a source?
8) Consider the following exchange: “How do I know God exists? How do you know
he doesn’t?” Which fallacy does the second statement illustrate?
9) A claim is generally not considered credible if
10) Consider the following statement: “Morgan, you’re down to earth and I trust
your judgment. That’s why I know I can count on you to back me up at the meeting
this afternoon.” This is an example of which fallacy?
11) Consider the following statement: “Studies confirm what everyone already
knows: Smaller class sizes make better learners.” This is an example of which
fallacy?
12) Providing only two choices when others are available defines which fallacy?
13) Measurable or observable characteristics of your audience are called
14) Demographics include which of the following?
15) Audience analysis should occur at what point in the creation of a message?

2. 16) Which informal communication channel involves its own abbreviations to
accommodate the limited number of characters available in any given message?
17) In this channel of communication, messages are carried by sound and light
waves.
18) You want to discuss your performance review and possible raise with your boss.
The most effective channel to do this would be
19) When using expert testimonials, speakers should do which of the following?
20) What type of language is used when communicating with classmates,
coworkers, family, and friends?
21) Which verbal support breaks down complex processes or concepts into their
component parts to ensure understanding?
22) If you try to persuade your classmates to donate canned goods for the hungry in
your community, your topic is one of
23) When you use an expression like raining cats and dogs, you are using
24) The connotation of words such as skinny or thin focuses on the
25) When you lead, instruct, challenge, or introduce your audience to act on or
accept your solution, you are at which step of Monroe’s Motivated Sequence?
26) When you display ethos in your persuasive presentation, you have
27) If you use only a few examples to represent the whole of the conclusion, you are
committing this logical fallacy.
28) Groups that value higher power distance believe relationships are
29) An attempt to characterize causes of events to either personalities or external
situations is called
30) A concept proposing that negative cultural assumptions about a group can
create for its members a belief in those assumptions is called
31) The practice of using a case that has already been decided as a guide when
deciding new cases is referred to as
32) Utilitarianism is part of this perspective on moral reasoning.

3. 33) What is the belief that laws are justified if they prevent a person from harming
him- or herself known as?
BCOM 275 Final Exam 4
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