Chapter 1 - The Nature of Communication Flashcards

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Communication

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Behavior that affects the behavior of others by the transmission of information.

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Code

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A complex pattern of associations of the units of a communication system. In language, those units could be sound units; meaningful units, such as words; or meaningful units that are larger than words, such as phrases, clauses, and sentences.

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Encode

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To put a message in a code

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Grammar

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System (pattern) of elements (such as words) and of the rules of phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics inherent in a language. The term also refers to the study of those elements and rules.

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Decode

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To react to it in a way that reflects the reason that the sender encoded it

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Phonological system

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The grammar (pattern) of sounds of that language

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Lexicon

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A mental dictionary, the vocabulary that one has stored in the brain

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Morphological rules

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The rules used to construct words from their component parts

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Syntax

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The set of rules a person uses to form units of language larger than words. The term also refers to the study of those rules.

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Semantics

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The study of meaning

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Linguistic competence

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The (mostly) subconscious knowledge of language that allows a speaker to create a potentially infinite number of messages.

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Productivity

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The ability to produce messages that one has never produced before and to understand messages that one has never heard or seen before.

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Linguistic performance

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The application of linguistic competence to actually producing an utterance

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Delivery system of language

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The way in which knowledge of language (linguistic competence) is used to send a message. The three basic ways of delivering a message linguistically are speech, writing, and sign language.

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Verbal

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Language: speech, writing, or sign language

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Nonverbal

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Any communication that is not conveyed through speech, writing, or sign language

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Synchrony

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The connection and relationship between two or more things that occur at the same time

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Culture shock

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The disorientation and anxiety that occur when social expectation are not met

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Ethnocentrism

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Judging other cultures by the standard of your culture; it is also the belief that your culture is superior to other cultures

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Pheromone

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A chemical that is secreted by one individual and acts from a distance on another individual to alter that individual’s behavior.

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Redundancy

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When the same message (or elements of a message) is encoded in different ways and is simultaneously sent to the receiver of the message.

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Sound spectrograph

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An instrument used to analyze sound by producing a visual record of the time duration of the sound, its frequency (number of occurrences within a specific unit of time), and its amplitude (degree of loudness).

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Calls

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Usually relatively short vocal signals that might communicate a variety of messages. A variety of other species might respond to the calls of a given species.

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Songs

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Longer and more complex sequences of sound that, in birds, are usually associated with attracting a mate. Songs are species specific.

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Openness

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The ability to add new words, phrases, or other meaningful units to a language.

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Discrete signal

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One that does not blend with other signals.

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Arbitrary

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In relationship to language, means that features of language, such as words, have no direct relationship to their meaning.

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Stimulus-bound

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Behavior is one that occurs only as a result of a specific environment trigger (occurrence).

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Displacement

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The ability to communicate about things at times other than the present and to communicate about things not directly in front of the sender and/or receiver.

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Prevarication

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In the linguistic sense, refers to the ability to communicate about things that are not verifiable, things for which there is no proof.

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Hominin

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Refers to modern humans and to the ancestors of modern humans that go back in time more than six million years.

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Recursion

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The process whereby any linguistic units can be made longer by embedding another unit in it.

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The Clever Hans effect

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The name given to the fact that a nonhuman’s or human’s behavior might be influenced or directed by subtle and often unintentional cues of others. In terms of experimentation, these cues might reflect a researcher’s expectations of what the results of the experiment should be.

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Broca’s area of the brain

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The area of the brain that controls the larynx, lips, tongue, and other areas of the digestive and respiratory systems involved with oral and facial fine motor skills in the production of speech.

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Wernicke’s area of the brain

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One of the areas of the brain that is involved with the comprehension of speech and the selection of lexical items.

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Broca’s aphasia

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A condition caused by damage to Broca’s area of the brain and is characterized by problems in the production of speech and loss of some grammatical understanding of language.

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Wernicke’s aphasia

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Caused by damage to Wernicke’s area of the brain, is characterized by speech that includes lexical errors and nonsense words.

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Theory of mind

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Refers to the ability to characterize and predict the mental states of others.

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The looking glass self

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The human characteristic of building a concept of self though interpreting the perceptions we believe that others have of us and their behavioral reactions toward us.