CAS 470: Nonverbal Communication
Spring, 2008
Study Guide #2
Short Version

Pp. 45-7
define code, define the 8 basic codes

Pp. 103-104
definition and interpretation of postural cues (lead, directness, relaxation, mirroring, openness), 3 types of gestures, preening (define and function), eye gaze/contact (define, meanings), meaning of smiles

Ch 11
definition of classes, culture and emblems, awareness and classes, difference between illustrator and emblem, influences on frequency of illustrators and adaptors

Ch 14
civil inattention (define, cues), violations of civil inattention, exceptions to the rule

Ch 13
look/stare, love messages, truth, leadership, positive/negative emotion, pupils, willingness to communicate, culture and eye contact

Ch 15
innate and cross cultural expression of happiness, expression of friendliness and sociability rather than of inner happiness, social/internal

Pp. 48-49
body stereotypes for thin/tall, short/round, and muscular, halo effect, self-fulfilling prophecy, women judged more on basis of physical appearance, gender and clothing norm rigidity, business attire

Ch 4
“thin is in”, over-estimation of weight, eating disorders and estimations, media portrayals of eating, level and age of dieting, number of body parts related to attractiveness ratings of males and females, body size distortion

Ch 5
Physical characteristics versus education, income, or similarity in dating choices, matching hypothesis, differences between long versus short term relationships, gender similarities and differences in long term relationships, the assortment model versus agreed-value model, women more selective, both genders prefer thin, aware of market, role of personality

Ch 7
Advantages of being attractive, challenges of attractive women, affects on interview, halo effect, affects of qualifications and gender, high, moderate and low levels of attractiveness of women, gender of interviewer and bias, type of job and bias, skirted suit, color and gender

Ch 9
smell and greeting, emotions and smell, consciousness and smell, sexual attraction and smell, similarity and differences in genetic codes/smell.

Pp. 182-3
cues (pitch, etc.), gender, culture, and pitch, vocal qualities, vocalizations, response latency, persuasion and emotion.

Ch 25
tie signs, behavior matching, most touch in serious dating stage, gender and touch, matching and relationship type

Ch 26
tipping and touch

Ch 21
4 space zones and what goes on in each, culture and distance, gender and distance, reactions to small spaces (stimulus overload, even spacing, barriers, dividing space), intruding on another=s space, status and space, propinquity

Ch 23
Equilibrium theory, proxemic norms in online versus physical worlds

Pp. 242-244
chronemics, time orientation (present, past, future), interactional time, cultures and institutions, fixed and semifixed elements

Ch 31
Effects of adding trails, playground markings, sidewalks, improved street crossings, and slowing traffic on physical activity; walkable neighborhoods (mixed land use and connected streets, high residential density); sidewalks; connected streets and activity of youth and adults; proximity to recreational facilities and relationship to socio-economic status and ethnicity

Ch 33
privacy as a basic need, 3 flight responses (consider Withdrawing and Separating to be the same), use of furniture and room shape to withdraw, function of transition spaces and barriers, personalization of space, ambient sound and lighting in masking

Pp. 151-152
Vocal cues (pitch, etc.), gender, culture, and pitch, vocal qualities, vocalizations, response latency, persuasion and emotion.

Ch 18
Male cues of seduction and changes from the attention to the resolution phase in pitch, volume and speed, female flirting voice cues, cues of affection, female preference for low pitched male voices

Ch 20
silence as a communicative act, some functions of silence as universal, silence and uncertainty, silence and unequal power

Ch 28
7 time perspectives (define, relationship to age and income)

Ch 29
monochronic and polychronic time (define each, how is time seen in each type of culture, which cultures are have which orientation, relationship to use of space)

Lectures

Codes: define code, dimensions, definitions of codes, kinesic functions, touch and norms, distinctness of codes/packages

Kinesics: type and meaning of body cues (lean, orientation, open/closed, mirroring, synchrony), equilibrium of cues; regulation cues, display rules

Eyes: perception of power, definitions and differences among gaze, mutual gaze, and eye contact, average length of gaze, percentage of time gazing for different groups when talking and listening, four functions of gaze, different ways of regulating, emotions that are communicated by the eyes

Physical Appearance: social/physical/task attraction, importance of attractiveness to men and women, 3 motives and cues, effects on grades, etc., minimax principle of dating, does not effect, conclusions from the activity (male/female differences, overall similarities)

Vocalics: socialized, voice qualities/vocalizations, attitudes B face/voice, interpretations of silence and extremes in qualities, speaking rate and persuasion, topics and speech disturbances, talk time and perceptions, regulations cues

Touch (Haptics): sources of touch norms, situations under which touch is more likely, vulnerability and touch, meanings

Proxemics: boundary management theory, health and space, density and crowding, innate need for space, territory/personal space, space B people, interactional, and environmental influences (know each)

Environment: 9 functions, status markers (activity), small town model of city design, supermarket design (freshness, security, choice).

Time (Chronemics): punctuality, monochronistic and polychronistic