The Term Discourse Refers to

question 62

Multiple Choice

The term discourse refers to

• A) a sentence in which the speaker has made a speech error, and the listener fails to detect this error.
• B) an interchange between two or more people, in which one person tries to convince the listener or listeners.
• C) a series of sentences that describes a sequence of events, organized in terms of the date of occurrence.
• D) language units that are more than a sentence in length.

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Definitions:

Situationism

The theory that behavior is determined more by situations and environmental factors than by personal traits or motivations.

Relative Consistency

The degree to which an individual's behavior remains stable in different contexts over time.

True Interaction

An authentic exchange or engagement between people, which is genuine and not artificial or simulated in any way.

Suppressor Effect

A statistical phenomenon where a variable increases the predictive validity of another variable by controlling for or suppressing irrelevant variance.