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1

Expectancy Violations Theory (EVT) suggests that people have expectations about the _____________ behavior of others.
A)verbal
B)nonverbal
C)cognitive
D)communicative
2

The study of a person's use of space is called:
A)proxemics
B)kinesics
C)spatial communication
D)territoriality
3

Researcher Edward Hall claimed what four zones defined spatial distances for North Americans?
A)proximal, intimate, overt, and covert
B)intimate, personal, social, and public
C)close, moderate, social, and distant
D)personal, spatial, proximal, and public
4

Your own workspace and computer is considered:
A)secondary territory
B)public territory
C)cultural territory
D)primary territory
5

The city park constitutes:
A)cultural territory
B)public territory
C)private territory
D)secondary territory
6

Burgoon and Hale argue that two types of expectations exist: pre-interactional and interactional. Pre-interactional expectations include:
A)random beliefs about conversations
B)the extremities of behaviors in a conversation
C)how a person behaves him/herself
D)the skills communicators possess before entering a conversation
7

Violations of expectations have _____________, or the ability to cause people to pay attention to the violation.
A)arousal value
B)reward value
C)the value of importance
D)goal value
8

The distance at which one feels discomfort in the presence of another is called:
A)personal arousal
B)psychological arousal
C)the threat threshold
D)the violation threshold
9

_____________ refers to the positive or negative assessment of an unexpected behavior.
A)Judgment
B)Interpretation
C)Unexpected assessment
D)Violation valence
10

EVT is a highly _________________ theory with a very specific scope related to personal space.
A)heuristic
B)bounded
C)testable
D)logical







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