Chapter 1: First Look Flashcards
Co-Culture
A culture that exists within the larger culture of a country or society.
Cognitive Complexity
The ability to construct a variety of frameworks for viewing an issue.
Communication
A Continuous, transactional process involving participants who occupy different but over lapping environments and create relationships through the exchange of messages.
Communication Competence
The ability to accomplish one’s personal goals that maintain a relationship on terms that are acceptable to all parties.
Content Dimension
The part of a message that communicates information about the subject being discussed.
Decode
The process in which a receiver attaches meaning to a message.
Disinhibition
The tendency to transmit messages without considering their consequences.
Dyad
Two individuals communicating
Encode
The process of putting thoughts into symbols, most commonly words.
Environment
The field of experience that leafs a person to make sense of another behavior.
Interpersonal Communication
Behavior that treats others as objects rather than individuals.
Instrumental goals
Goals aimed at getting others to behave in desired ways.
Linear communication model
A characterization of communication as a one-way event in which a message flows from sender to receiver.
Mediated Communication
Communication between individuals that is conducted via technology channels such as emails, texting, and instant messaging
Message
Information sent from a sender to a receiver
Noise
External, physiological, and psychological distractions that interfere with the accurate transmission and reception of a message
Receiver
One who notices and attends to a message.
Relational Diension
The part of a message that expresses the social relationship between two or more individuals.
Richness
An abundance of nonverbal cues that add clarity to a verbal message: opposite of leanness
Self-monitoring
The process of attending to one’s behavior and using these observations to shape the way one behaves.
Sender
The creator of the message
Transactional communication model
A characterization of communication a the simultaneous sending and receiving of messages in an ongoing, irreversible process.
Channel
The medium through which the message passes from sender to receiver.
