This document provides a guide for the BCOM 275 Final Exam, including 33 multiple choice practice questions and answers covering communication topics like listening, channels, feedback, response styles, advertising types, logical fallacies, demographics, verbal and nonverbal communication, persuasion, and ethics. It also provides links to additional exam guides and study resources on the listed website.

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1) In which of the following communication activities do
people spend the greatest percent of their day?
A. Listening
B. Speaking
C. Reading
D. Writing
2) The term channel in communication means

2. A. the volume at which a message is received
B. the process of changing thoughts into symbols
C. the medium through which a message travels from
sender to receiver
D. the context of the communication
3) A receiver’s response to a sender’s message is called
A. encoding
B. decoding
C. channel
D. feedback
4) This response style normally does not help unless
the sender has asked for your advice.
A. Paraphrasing
B. Evaluating
C. Questioning
D. Interpreting
5) With this type of response, you analyze or teach the
sender about the cause of his or her concern.
A. Evaluating
B. Interpreting
C. Questioning
D. Paraphrasing

3. 6) This act is involuntary and happens automatically.
A. Responding
B. Feedback
C. Listening
D. Hearing
7) Which of the following is a category of reasonless
advertising?
A. Logical ads
B. Promise ads
C. Endorsement ads
D. Functional ads
8) Which of the following are the most common types of
doubts people may have about a source?
A. Status and academic degree
B. Occupation and employer
C. Expertise and accuracy
D. Prominence in the field of study and experience
9) A claim is generally not considered credible if
A. it seems likely
B. the claimant is an interested party
C. it comes from a source assumed to be credible but
who is not known to you

4. D. the claimant is a disinterested party
10) Providing only two choices when others are
available defines which fallacy?
A. Ad hominem
B. False dilemma
C. Genetic fallacy
D. Straw man
11) Stating someone has negative features and his claim
is invalid is an example of which fallacy?
A. Ad hominem
B. False dilemma
C. Genetic fallacy
D. Straw man
12) Consider the following statement: “So what if the
Senator accepted a little kickback money—most
politicians are corrupt after all.” This is an
example of which fallacy?
A. Argument from envy
B. Straw man
C. Argument from tradition
D. Argument from common practice

5. 13) Measurable or observable characteristics of your
audience are called
A. pseudographics
B. statistics
C. psychographics
D. demographics
14) Behavior descriptions should meet which of the
following criteria?
A. Present inferences about another’s motives.
B. Focus on more than one behavior.
C. Describe only observable behaviors.
D. Include terms such as “never, always, or
constantly.”
15) Demographics include which of the following?
A. Ethnicity, gender, race
B. Beliefs, feelings, likes
C. Attitudes, interests, values
D. Values, morals, opinions
16) You want to discuss your performance review and
possible raise with your boss. The most effective
channel to do this would be

6. A. face-to-face
B. text message
C. e-mail
D. team meeting
17) Sound and light waves are an example of which part
of the communication model?
A. Noise
B. Channel
C. Encoding
D. Decoding
18) Which informal communication channel involves its
own abbreviations to accommodate the limited number
of characters available in any given
message?
A. E-mail
B. Voicemail message
C. Text message
D. Handwritten letters
19) When are nonverbal messages sent?
A. Before verbal messages
B. Only in combination with verbal messages
C. Only when you want

7. D. After verbal messages
20) Which verbal support breaks down complex
processes or concepts into their component parts to
ensure understanding?
A. Descriptions
B. Analyses
C. Comparisons
D. Definitions
21) When using expert testimonials, speakers should do
which of the following?
A. Share the expert’s credentials.
B. Protect the identity of experts by not naming them.
C. Always quote the expert’s exact words.
D. Use experts who have celebrity status.
22) When you use an expression like raining cats and
dogs, you are using
A. denotative language
B. connotative language
C. figurative language
D. contextual language

8. 23) Persuasive topics that attempt to show an audience
that something is good, bad, right, or wrong are topics of
A. value
B. policy
C. cause-effect
D. fact
24) The connotation of words such as skinny or thin
focuses on the
A. emotional meaning
B. denotative meaning
C. actual meaning
D. contextual meaning
25) What logical fallacy can occur when a speaker
focuses on similarities and ignores significant
differences?
A. Faulty comparison
B. Slippery slope
C. Either/or thinking
D. Hasty generalization
26) If you use only a few examples to represent the
whole of the conclusion, you are committing this logical
fallacy.

9. A. Faulty causation
B. Hasty generalization
C. Either/or thinking
D. Slippery slope
27) When you display ethos in your persuasive
presentation, you have
A. evidence
B. credibility
C. logic
D. emotion
28) Deliberately blaming individuals or groups for
things they really did not do is called
A. stereotyping
B. ethnocentrism
C. scapegoating
D. discriminating
29) A concept proposing that negative cultural
assumptions about a group can create for its members a
belief in those assumptions is called
A. a halo effect
B. an attribution error
C. a stereotype threat
D. a perceptual process

10. 30) Groups that value higher power distance believe
relationships are
A. hierarchical
B. individualist
C. relationship oriented
D. informal
31) Utilitarianism is part of this perspective on moral
reasoning.
A. Consquentialism
B. Deontology
C. Moral relativism
D. Virtue ethics
32) What is the belief that correct moral principles are
those accepted by the correct religion known as?
A. Virtue ethics
B. Religious absolutism
C. Religious relativism
D. Moral relativism
33) The practice of using a case that has already been
decided as a guide when deciding new cases is referred
to as

11. A. legal paternalism
B. legal morality
C. causation principle
D. appeal to precedent