Practical communication is the term Waldron applied to the "messages and behaviors used to preserve an acceptable and lasting relational state."

If you try to relate new information to old information, your listeners will tend to

a. forget the old information that they already know. b. perceive the new information as even more strange and unfamiliar. c. learn the new information more easily. d. be bored with or uninterested in the new information.

All of the following are examples of "lenses" or perceptual filters through which most of us view our diverse world except:

a. Cultural extremists b. Colorblind c. Meritocrats d. Assimilationists