Ch. 1-13 FINAL EXAM Flashcards
4 essential elements of the SMCR model
Source - the encoder of the message. Message - meant to convey the sources meaning. Channel - which carries the message. Receiver - who decodes the message.
Five canons of rhetoric (IASMD)
- Invention: Finding ways to persuade.- Arrangement: Putting together the structure of a coherent argument.- Style: Presenting the argument to stir the emotions.- Memory: Speaking without having to prepare or memorize a speech.- Delivery: Making effective use of voice, gesture, etc.
6 strategies of the intensify/downplay model, also called Ranks models. (RAC ODC)
Intensification - Repetition, Association, Composition.Downplaying - Omission, Diverson, Confusion.
ELM
The elaboration-likelihood model
ELM two main routes
Central information processing route - receiver consciencely and directly focuses on the persuasive communication.Peripheral information processing route - the information may be processed almost instantly or just by the senses.Ex : Music playing
Rhetoric
What moves people
Aristotle’s definition of rhetoric
Ethos, logos, pathos.
Ethos, logos, pathos
E - Sources credibility.L - the idea of using logical or rational appeals.P - the use of the emotional appeals.
Ethos
First, persuasion dependent on a sources credibility, or ethos, which is why the testimonial is such an effective persuasive tactic in much advertising
Responsibility
Includes the elements of fulfilling duties and obligations, of being accountable to other individuals and groups, of adhering to agreed-upon standards, and of being accountable to one’s own conscious.
Persuasion
Persuasion consist of artistic and in artistic proofs. The persuader controls artistic proofs, such as the choice of evidence, the organization of the persuasion, style of delivery, and language choices.In artistic proof, includes things not controlled by the speaker, such as the occasion, the time allotted to the speaker, or things that bound persons to certain action, such as undeniable facts or statistics.
Intensification - Repetition, Association, Composition.
- Repetition-slogans, jingles, recurring examples or themes.- Association-linking a positive or negative valued idea to one’s persuasive advice.- Composition - graphic layout, design, typeface, and so on.
Downplaying - Omission, Diverson, Confusion.
- Omission - half truths, slanted or biased evidence.- Diversion - shifting attention to bogus issues, and so on.- Confusion - making things overly complex, using jargon, faulty logic, and so on.
Adaptation to the audience
Most persuaders seek to secure some kind of response from receivers. Persuaders must decide the ethical intermediate point between their own idea and it’s pure form and that idea modified to achieve maximum impact with the audience.
Ethical issues
Focus on value judgments concerning degrees of right and wrong, virtue and vice, and ethical obligations in human conduct.
Freedom versus responsibility tension
Might occur when we, as individuals, carry to an extreme the now traditional view that the best test of the soundness of our ideas is their ability to survive in the free and open public “marketplace” of ideas.
Going viral
Describe the rumors, controversial statements, and provocative photos or videos that are quickly picked up, rapidly spread, and widely diffused through blogs, email, and social network media such as YouTube and Twitter.
The golden rule
Persons familiar with the Christian religious tradition may think that the golden rule is unique to that religion. One interpretation of the golden rule is that we should only do specific actions to others if we would allow them to do the same specific actions to us.
The platinum rule
Do unto others as they themselves would have done unto you.
5 of Kenneth Burke pentad (ASAAP)
- Act - what is going on.- Scene - background.- Agent - main person.- Agency - how you get your message across.- Purpose - why you did it.
Coherence
Refers to the way the story hangs together and thus has meaning or impact.
Fidelity
Relates to whether it rings true with the hearers experience.
Deliberative discourse
Dealt with future policy, with special attention to the legislative and political realms.
Epidemic discourse
Treated present situations that were often ceremonial focusing on praise or blame.
Forensic discourse
Considered allegations of past wrongdoing in the legal arena
Quintilian’s ideal speaker was
The “good person speaking well” he established a public school of rhetoric in Rome in the first century A.D.
Attitude-behavior relationships
Researchers have frequently found low or no relationship between attitudes and behavioral change resulting from persuasive messages. For example, many smokers report that smoking is bad for their health and that may eventually kill them, but if you ask them whether they intended to stop, they may say no or maybe in the future. So our attitudes may be negative toward the dangers that behavior pose, but our attitudes toward the solutions to avert the dangers are negative, neutral, or so Weakly positive that we do not start a program to change our behavior.
Empirical
Refers to the practice of validating knowledge by experience or observation. Most empirical studies of persuasion use statistical methods to analyze experimental results, surveys of persuasive behaviors, or actual behaviors.
Implicit memories
Are those that affect people’s behaviors without deliberate intentions to behave in that way. Although measuring implicit attitudes has sometimes been problematic, it continues to be one of the more investigating areas in attitude change and behavior.
Mere exposure principal
The idea that repeated exposure to a stimulus results in more favorable evaluation of that stimulus. In other words, the more we are exposed to something, the more likely we are able to be favorable toward it.
Connotation
Refers to a private, metaphorical, emotional meaning for any concepts such as (profit) which for me means revenue that exceeds overall cost, but which for the crooked CEO may mean (the amount of money he or she can skim from overall revenue without it showing up on a financial statement.
Denotation
Refers to the common and shared meaning we all have for any concept, we all have similar meanings for the concept of (profit) versus loss, unless some scoundrel CEO redefines his or her definitions of the terms and calls profit (risk) or investment in the future and then chooses to use it to build a mentions for personal use or simply bezels it.
Metaphor
Is the most powerful, most persuasive, most memorable, and most likely to require truly artistic language creativity. A word or phrase literally detonating one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest the likeliness (as in drowning in money)
Two key parts of metaphor
- tenor - or subject of the metaphor (Peace-loving).- vehicle - (Doves carrying olive branches). Or the means of embodiment or transmission of meaning.
Signification
the representation or conveying of meaning.an exact meaning or sense.
3 dimensions of language
- Functional dimension - the jobs that words can do. - Semantic dimension - the meanings for a word. - Thematic dimension - the feel and texture of words. Assonance and alliteration.
Alliteration
Is similar except that relies on the repetition of consonant’s, as in the familiar motto of the recycling movement, reuse, reduced, recycle.
Assonance
The repetition of vowels or vowel sounds-for example, the low moans of our own soldiers rolled across the battlefield like the grounds of the doomed.It beats it sweeps it cleans it. Hoover Vaccum
Syntax
Is defined as (the pattern or structure of the word order and sentence or phrases.) Word order can either alert or divert the reader/listener.
3 main functions of attitudes
Cognitive - This represents our thoughts, beliefs and ideas about something. Typically these come to light in generalities or stereotypes, such as ‘all teenagers are lazy,’ or ‘all babies are cute.’Affective - This component deals with feelings or emotions that are brought to the surface about something, such as fear or hate. Using our above example, someone might have the attitude that they hate teenagers because they are lazy or that they love all babies because they are cute.Behavioral functions -This can also be called the behavioral component and centers on individuals acting a certain way towards something, such as ‘we better keep those lazy teenagers out of the library,’ or ‘I cannot wait to kiss that baby.’
4 emotional appeals (process premises)
1 human needs, 2 human emotions, 3 attitudes, and 4 the psychic comfort or discomfort that normal people always feel over the decisions they make. They target psychological and motional processes that operate in most people. When we call them premises, we are referring to their uses as major enthymemes.
4 sources of dissonance
Loss of group prestige. Economic loss. Loss of personal proceeds. Uncertainty of prediction. Ex : NFL
5 Common Emotions (FGAPH)
Fear, guilt, anger, pride, happiness and joy
Cognitive dissonance theory
Predicts that when we experience psychological tension, or dissonance, we try to reduce it in someway instead of totally resolving the tension. We can change our attitudes a little, in moderate amount, a lot, or not at all.
Psychological dimensions of emotion
You feel a change in the way your body is responding to the situation. You feel your voice in timber, your face flush, and your facial expression change.
Prepotency
Weaker needs such as the need for self-respect, emerge only after stronger needs, like food or shelter, have been filled.