TPS 1107 Final Exam Questions and Answers Already
Passed 2023/2024
Stories cannot define relationships and future generations of listeners
False
Communication is up to interpretation.
True
The way a performer elects to stage the story is just as important as the story
itself.
True
Telling stories in a public setting is an exciting way to share culture and
community.
True
By locating an collecting the oral we understand people better.
True
Communication is a process in which people create _______.
Meaning
Performance is a process in which individuals display and create themselves
through the roles they _____ to portray.
Elect
Stories are aesthetic artifacts.
True
Stories do not happen in a vacuum
True
The sketch of Eric does NOT show that each individual's stories
Are static
Pedestrian everyday behaviors and speech patterns become less important
unless it is signifying and heightening the character being portrayed.
True
Audience members who witness oral history as a performance not only _____
and _____ the story but often go away with a deeper understanding.
Engage and Translate
Telling stories does not strengthen communal bonds.
False
Communication is motivated by individual _____.
Desires
When performing a story and turning it into an aesthetic text a performer would
not consider wording structure phrases and literary devices
False
Audiences are static in nature
False
Myths legends and folktales do not exemplify the power of a story to exist for
generations to be shared orally across cultures and to be documented as a
central artifact of a culture.
False
,Ethnography is the ______ study of another culture using fieldwork methods
such as participant observation interviewing and journaling.
Systematic
Myths legends folklore and folktales are considered:
Communal stories
The stories we tell evolve shift and change depending upon the audience we
have.
True
according to our text three approaches to performance studies would include:
Performance as a metaphor for understanding communicative act as a method of
inquiry and objective study.
The root of performance is to fake or hide.
False
All human communication is not an act of performance.
False
To think of human communication as a performance is to accept stereotypes a
negative connotations which sometimes are associated with performance.
False
Audiences and performers need each other.
True
Performing stories as an aesthetic text requires ______ choices like attention to
the art form to the staging and the actual telling of he story.
Intentional
In terms of performance and stories people are both products and ______ of their
culture.
Producers
Performance studies scholars are committed to the ethnographic method in order
to understand others ______.
Experientially
The impact of a story on a community is finite.
False
Telling stories in a public setting is an exciting way to share culture and
community.
True
Those who interact with us become our ___________.
Audience
One's real self is a composite of only their familial and professional roles.
False
Where do stories originate _____ yet are shaped by ______?
Individually ; community
Culture is a process
True
We can best classify ourselves as not homo sapiens the intelligent species but as
homo ______ the performing species.
Histrio
, Culture is not created and recreated by the daily activities and rituals of the
cultural members.
False
Communication is scripted by cultural and linguistic expectations and the unique
characteristics of each individual speaker.
Cultural
Oral history is a method of valuing and recording unwritten stories that matter to
a culture stories that were once only collected in memory and preserved by being
passed down by the word-of-mouth from generations to generation.
True
Stories cannot be collective creations belonging o a particular community for a
particular time.
False
One thing all humans have in common are ______.
Stories
Ethnography was influenced by which two soft sciences?
Anthropology and sociology
According to the text performance is a model for explaining human ______ and
specifies how people communicate with themselves and one another.
Actions
Turning oral history into performance allows a _______ engagement.
Dialogic
When crafting storyteller performers always take the _______ into consideration
Audience
Communication is an _____ process in which people attribute meaning and value
to speech.
Interpretive
In terms of performance studies people are defined by their _____ and ______.
Actions and talk
Communicative acts of performance are only done on public stages.
False
By telling the stories to others, individuals ______ control over the telling and
release it into the world.
Relinquish
Stories are ______ part of our every day lives.
A routine
People are what they do.
True
Stories as artifacts become _____ and _____ objects in culture communicating
the past and informing the future.
Valuable and persistent
By locating and collecting the oral we understand people better.
True
Tracy Shaffer
Grew up hearing a legend about her great-grandfather. Bart, the father of fifteen
children in rural Mississippi in the early 1900s.
Passed 2023/2024
Stories cannot define relationships and future generations of listeners
False
Communication is up to interpretation.
True
The way a performer elects to stage the story is just as important as the story
itself.
True
Telling stories in a public setting is an exciting way to share culture and
community.
True
By locating an collecting the oral we understand people better.
True
Communication is a process in which people create _______.
Meaning
Performance is a process in which individuals display and create themselves
through the roles they _____ to portray.
Elect
Stories are aesthetic artifacts.
True
Stories do not happen in a vacuum
True
The sketch of Eric does NOT show that each individual's stories
Are static
Pedestrian everyday behaviors and speech patterns become less important
unless it is signifying and heightening the character being portrayed.
True
Audience members who witness oral history as a performance not only _____
and _____ the story but often go away with a deeper understanding.
Engage and Translate
Telling stories does not strengthen communal bonds.
False
Communication is motivated by individual _____.
Desires
When performing a story and turning it into an aesthetic text a performer would
not consider wording structure phrases and literary devices
False
Audiences are static in nature
False
Myths legends and folktales do not exemplify the power of a story to exist for
generations to be shared orally across cultures and to be documented as a
central artifact of a culture.
False
,Ethnography is the ______ study of another culture using fieldwork methods
such as participant observation interviewing and journaling.
Systematic
Myths legends folklore and folktales are considered:
Communal stories
The stories we tell evolve shift and change depending upon the audience we
have.
True
according to our text three approaches to performance studies would include:
Performance as a metaphor for understanding communicative act as a method of
inquiry and objective study.
The root of performance is to fake or hide.
False
All human communication is not an act of performance.
False
To think of human communication as a performance is to accept stereotypes a
negative connotations which sometimes are associated with performance.
False
Audiences and performers need each other.
True
Performing stories as an aesthetic text requires ______ choices like attention to
the art form to the staging and the actual telling of he story.
Intentional
In terms of performance and stories people are both products and ______ of their
culture.
Producers
Performance studies scholars are committed to the ethnographic method in order
to understand others ______.
Experientially
The impact of a story on a community is finite.
False
Telling stories in a public setting is an exciting way to share culture and
community.
True
Those who interact with us become our ___________.
Audience
One's real self is a composite of only their familial and professional roles.
False
Where do stories originate _____ yet are shaped by ______?
Individually ; community
Culture is a process
True
We can best classify ourselves as not homo sapiens the intelligent species but as
homo ______ the performing species.
Histrio
, Culture is not created and recreated by the daily activities and rituals of the
cultural members.
False
Communication is scripted by cultural and linguistic expectations and the unique
characteristics of each individual speaker.
Cultural
Oral history is a method of valuing and recording unwritten stories that matter to
a culture stories that were once only collected in memory and preserved by being
passed down by the word-of-mouth from generations to generation.
True
Stories cannot be collective creations belonging o a particular community for a
particular time.
False
One thing all humans have in common are ______.
Stories
Ethnography was influenced by which two soft sciences?
Anthropology and sociology
According to the text performance is a model for explaining human ______ and
specifies how people communicate with themselves and one another.
Actions
Turning oral history into performance allows a _______ engagement.
Dialogic
When crafting storyteller performers always take the _______ into consideration
Audience
Communication is an _____ process in which people attribute meaning and value
to speech.
Interpretive
In terms of performance studies people are defined by their _____ and ______.
Actions and talk
Communicative acts of performance are only done on public stages.
False
By telling the stories to others, individuals ______ control over the telling and
release it into the world.
Relinquish
Stories are ______ part of our every day lives.
A routine
People are what they do.
True
Stories as artifacts become _____ and _____ objects in culture communicating
the past and informing the future.
Valuable and persistent
By locating and collecting the oral we understand people better.
True
Tracy Shaffer
Grew up hearing a legend about her great-grandfather. Bart, the father of fifteen
children in rural Mississippi in the early 1900s.
