Chapter 3 Flashcards
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Biophysiology
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- Concerned with the influence of biology on thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
- 3 theories within this: Communibiology, Race and the senses, Trait theories.
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Communibiology
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- Micheal Beatty and James McCrosky
- The growing belief that communication apprehension, as well as other communication traits, could be largely explained biologically
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Race and senses
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- Sachi Sekimoto and Christopher Brown
- heory that race, racialization, and racism are not simply constructs or structures, but are assemblages of sensations felt in the body
- all senses need to be considered to understand race and racisim
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Trait Theory
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- Digmans Model(supertraits): Psychologists group traits together to create personality types
- OCEAN
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Attribution Theory
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- Theorist: Fitz Heider
- Deals with the ways humans make inferences about or explain the causes of behaviors and events – both their own and others
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Cognitive Dissonance
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- Leon Festinger
- Individuals carry “cognitive elements” = attitudes, perception, knowledge + how they relate to one another
- An example: making yourself feel better about doing something that originally made you feel bad. like coming up with an excuse to skip class
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Premises of Cognitive Dissonance
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- Dissonance creates stress, leading to pressure for change.
- We tend to avoid situations that produce further dissonance.
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Strategic Management
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5 theories that address different ways communicators plan and manage their comm. interactions
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- Uncertainty Reduction
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- Charles Berger and Richard Calabrese
- how we gain knowledge to understand and predict.
- Plans to comm. vary on context
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Strategies to Reduce Uncertainty
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- Be passive
- Be active to get info
- Be interactive
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Symbolic Interactionism
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- George Herbert Mead
- Humans are social beings created in the process of Interaction
- The notion of SELF
- Society emerges as people interact with one another arriving at a shared meaning
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Self
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-Formed through negotiation of/with the world around us;
Interaction
Plans of action
Orientational Others(help understand how we are alike and different.
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Presentational Self
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- Goffman
- “Facework”
- The self is determined by your face
- Face engagements: the self is a product of this.
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Communication Theory of Identity
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- Hecht, M. + Collier, MJ + Ribeau, S.
- Highlight identity as a social and communication phenomenon rather than a singular and static element of self
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Standpoint Theory
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- Focuses on how the circumstances of an Individuals life affect how that individual understands and constructs the social world.
- Can be called Feminist Theory
- Collective experience
- Focuses on Marginalized groups
