Chapter 1: First Look

Question 1

Co-Culture

Answer 1

A culture that exists within the larger culture of a country or society.

Question 2

Cognitive Complexity

Answer 2

The ability to construct a variety of frameworks for viewing an issue.

Question 3

Communication

Answer 3

A Continuous, transactional process involving participants who occupy different but over lapping environments and create relationships through the exchange of messages.

Question 4

Communication Competence

Answer 4

The ability to accomplish one’s personal goals that maintain a relationship on terms that are acceptable to all parties.

Question 5

Content Dimension

Answer 5

The part of a message that communicates information about the subject being discussed.

Question 6

Decode

Answer 6

The process in which a receiver attaches meaning to a message.

Question 7

Disinhibition

Answer 7

The tendency to transmit messages without considering their consequences.

Question 8

Dyad

Answer 8

Two individuals communicating

Question 9

Encode

Answer 9

The process of putting thoughts into symbols, most commonly words.

Question 10

Environment

Answer 10

The field of experience that leafs a person to make sense of another behavior.

Question 11

Interpersonal Communication

Answer 11

Behavior that treats others as objects rather than individuals.

Question 12

Instrumental goals

Answer 12

Goals aimed at getting others to behave in desired ways.

Question 13

Linear communication model

Answer 13

A characterization of communication as a one-way event in which a message flows from sender to receiver.

Question 14

Mediated Communication

Answer 14

Communication between individuals that is conducted via technology channels such as emails, texting, and instant messaging

Question 15

Message

Answer 15

Information sent from a sender to a receiver

Question 16

Noise

Answer 16

External, physiological, and psychological distractions that interfere with the accurate transmission and reception of a message

Question 17

Receiver

Answer 17

One who notices and attends to a message.

Question 18

Relational Diension

Answer 18

The part of a message that expresses the social relationship between two or more individuals.

Question 19

Richness

Answer 19

An abundance of nonverbal cues that add clarity to a verbal message: opposite of leanness

Question 20

Self-monitoring

Answer 20

The process of attending to one’s behavior and using these observations to shape the way one behaves.

Question 21

Sender

Answer 21

The creator of the message

Question 22

Transactional communication model

Answer 22

A characterization of communication a the simultaneous sending and receiving of messages in an ongoing, irreversible process.

Question 23

Channel

Answer 23

The medium through which the message passes from sender to receiver.