1. Discuss how the nonverbal behavior of a patient and physician can mutually influence each other.
2. Suppose you were hired to advise incoming college freshmen on what nonverbal behavior they should enact to impress their teachers. What advice would you give them?
3. Different cultures exhibit different nonverbal behavior, and sometimes these differences cause communication problems when people from those different cultures interact. But it is also true that sometimes these differences occur and there are no problems. Under what conditions do you think problems would or would not occur?
4. Select a short scene from your own life in which you were interacting with another person. Then assume you and your partner were communicating that same scene via a technology of your choice, such as a computer or cell phone. Identify the difficulties and advantages the technology has for communicating the information in that scene.