The various degrees of touch/haptics can all be misconstrued by the receiver of the touch. Outline three

categories of touch and give an example of how each could be misconstrued for another category.

What will be an ideal response?

The five categories of touch are (1 ) functional-professional; (2 ) social-polite; (3 ) friendship-warmth; (4 ) love-intimacy; and (5 ) sexual arousal. Depending on the contexts of the responses, each could be misconstrued for another mode of touch.

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When a researcher only examines the frequency of codes found in a particular text, she is using what type of measure in her quantitative textual analysis?

a. ratio b. interval c. ordinal d. nominal

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