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. The box on attempts to teach language to primates concludes that there is no difference between animal and human communication.

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. The authors of your text argue that communication can only occur if everyone sees exactly the same reality.

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. A person who takes a process perspective is insensitive to the feelings of others.

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. The definition "communication is the discriminatory response of an organism to a stimulus" is a very broad definition of communication.

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. According to your text, to understand communication it is important to look at what people do during interaction rather than the history and background of each person.

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. To be role competent, individuals must know when to violate social roles as well as when to accept them.

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. Although human communication has been studied for thousands of years, there is little consensus on what it means.

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. The key difference between a thing and a process is that the latter is static and unchanging, while the former is moving and constantly changing.

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. When Goffman refers to the importance of face, he means that in our society physical beauty is an important aspect of communication competence.

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. The five types of competence are sequential: You first need to develop interpretive, role, goal, and message competence before you can develop self competence.

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