During an interview the interviewer must ask speculative questions. A way of doing this is asking closed questions only when necessary. Closed questions are questions that require little feedback from the interviewee. An example of this would be, "Question: How have you been? Answer: Fine." Open questions are specific questions that require a, sometimes long, concrete answer. An example of an open question that occurred during the interview would be when Brandon asked, "What television show

During the interview many of the characteristics of nonverbal communication were used and developed whether we noticed it or not. Therefore I must conclude that many of these characteristics are always used with nonverbal communication.

Chronemics is the seventh nonverbal communication form. Chronemics is how we perceive and utilize time. The only example from the interview was how I kept looking at the clock. This refers to chronemics because I knew the interview ran about five minutes. Therefore I kept looking at the clock in order to establish how much time had past.

(12"-4'), social distance (4'-12'), and public distance (over 12'). During the interview Brandon and I were within personal distance. However our body language was completely different. Brandon was leaning forward in order to maintain the personal distance. On the contrary I was leaning back almost trying to go to a social distance. The second type of proxemics was territorality. This is the area a person defines as theirs. In the interview our territorality was the chair we sat in.

For nonverbal communication there are eight major forms. The interview displayed seven of the eight forms. Although Brandon and I didn't seem to enthusiastic about the interview we both tried to stay as interested as possible. Brandon communicated this by his constant nodding.

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