Deck 1: The Centrality of Ethics in Human Communication

Question 1

The ability to recognize ethical issues and make relevant ethical distinctions are skills of ethical discernment.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

An individual uses ethical decision making to guide her decisions about how to act ethically.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Practice is a method of learning that relies primarily on inborn skill.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

A practitioner is someone who studies and develops a set of skills over time.

Question 5

Competent communication involves consistently applying knowledge and skills of communication in every situation.

Question 6

Competent communication and communication ethics are both practices.

Question 7

Ethics as practical philosophy focuses on abstract philosophical theories of ethics.

Question 8

When something is ephemeral, we mean it is long lasting.

Question 9

Identification that promotes cooperation is a key characteristic of rhetorical communication.

Question 10

In transactional communication, each communicator's actions affect everyone involved in the communication process in some way.

Question 11

The impact of what a communicator says is limited to those who hear it.

Question 12

The content dimension of transaction communication involves the meaning communicators create and share.

Question 13

How communication creates relational connections between communicators is the focus of the relational dimension of communication.

Question 14

When we say that communication creates the relationships, groups and communities, we are saying that communicators co-create their social worlds.

Question 15

When a communicator acknowledges another person, she takes time and makes room in her life to listen and be with that person.

Question 16

Acknowledgment is a communication act that builds relational connection between communicators.

Question 17

Authentic communication is real rather than honest communication.

Question 18

Making judgments is important to dialogical communication.

Question 19

Bakhtin's chain of communication emphasizes how communication messages relationally connect communicators in the past, present, and into the future.

Question 20

When you communicate mindfully, you are aware of what you say and do and the people around you.

Question 21

Mindlessness has little impact on the communication process.

Question 22

When a person is unable to recognize or think about ethical issues, they are ethically nearsighted.

Question 23

A well-developed moral imagination can help communicators recognize and think about ethical issues.

Question 24

Ethics is the study and practice of what is

A) good
B) right
C) virtuous
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Question 25

One skill of ethical discernment is

A) recognition of ethical issues
B) mindlessness
C) tastefulness
D) reasoning

Question 26

Ethical decision making involves

A) recognizing ethical issues
B) mindlessness
C) making ethical judgments
D) both a & b
E) both a & c

Question 27

If ethical decision making is a practice, it is a skill that

A) some people are born with and others are not.
B) you can learn and improve upon throughout your life.
C) most people cannot afford to learn.
D) Both a & b
E) Both a & c

Question 28

Both competent communication and ethics as practical philosophy involve

A) making judgments.
B) skill development
C) knowledge of concepts and theories.
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Question 29

The process of transactional communication has content and ______ dimensions.

A) meaning
B) ephemeral
C) economic
D) relational

Question 30

Constitutive communication

A) is a process in which communicators verbally and nonverbally create the relationships, workplaces, and communities of their social worlds.
B) shows how communication does not matter.
C) is a linear process.
D) is ephemeral

Question 31

Communication matters ethically

A) when speakers are important.
B) when receivers are important.
C) because communication impacts everyone involved in the communication process.
D) because of the content dimension of communication.

Question 32

The communication act of acknowledgment

A) focuses a communicator's attention on another person.
B) requires openness to another person.
C) Involves making time and room for another person in one's life.
D) All of the above.
E) None of the above

Question 33

Authentic communication is

A) passionate, focused, and impactful.
B) meaningful, concise, and organized.
C) truthful, open, and clear.
D) relevant, practical, and useful.

Question 34

Dialogue occurs when two or more people communicate

A) authentically
B) in an open-ended manner
C) nonjudgmentally
D) All of the above
E) None of the above.

Question 35

Bakhtin's chain of communication

A) requires people to communicate face-to-face
B) focuses on problem solving
C) recognizes that conversations on important issues have a past and will continue into the future.
D) Is impractical unless everyone speaks the same language.

Question 36

Mindless communication relies upon

A) awareness and self-reflection
B) automatic habits and thoughtless reliance on perceptions
C) practice and skill-building
D) digital communication technology

Question 37

Mindful communication relies upon

A) awareness and self-reflections
B) automatic habits and thoughtless reliance on perceptions
C) practice and skill-building
D) both a & b
E) both a & c

Question 38

A name for the inability to recognize and think about ethical issues is _____.

A) mindfulness
B) rhetorical communication
C) ethical nearsightedness
D) relativism

Question 39

One way to overcome ethical nearsightedness is to develop your ___________.

A) moral imagination
B) argumentation skills
C) vocabulary
D) mindlessness