TEST TAKING

1. Studying tips

Start early

Steps:

Read and underline
Outline from underlining
Study outline
Make up questions
Get in a group and test each other

Focus on lecture and chapter summaries, work to more specifics

Use mnemonic devices

Definition of Culture = 3 Cs

C = code
C = conversation
C = community

Characteristic

Power distance
Individualism/Collectivism
Uncertainty
Role differentiation
Universalism – Particularism

2. Where to sit:

If easily distracted, sit in center toward the back

3. Short Answer/Multiple Choice

Start by answering questions you know well
Then use process of elimination -- cross out obviously wrong answers
Guess
Go back over answers

those who study more change more answers from wrong to right
those who have not studied hurt themselves when they change answers

4. See sample items

reading too much into words

SAMPLE ITEMS

Definitional

The approach to studying nonverbal communication that starts by identifying an episode is called:

A. structural approach
B. biological approach
C. rules approach
D. conceptual approach

Applied

Which of the following is communicating the greatest masculinity:

A. Harry who is smiling a lot and sitting close to his friend
B. Ralph who has his arm draped across the seat next to him and whose face is expression less
C. Carl who is expressionless and sitting close to his friend
D. Lionell who is smiling a lot and spread out across two chairs.