While you are engaged in a heated telephone conversation with one of your coworkers, your roommate walks up and asks you a question. Without breaking from the telephone conversation, you hold your hand out toward your roommate as if to say, "Not now-I'm on the phone." In this scenario, your nonverbal behaviors serve the adaptive function.

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The Answer of While you are engaged in a heated telephone conversation with one of your coworkers, your roommate walks up and asks you a question. Without breaking from the telephone conversation, you hold your hand out toward your roommate as if to say, "Not now-I'm on the phone." In this scenario, your nonverbal behaviors serve the adaptive function.

While You Are Engaged in a Heated Telephone Conversation with One