COMM 110 Quiz 1

Question 1

Culture Definition

Answer 1

Culture: an integrated system of learned beliefs, values, attitudes, and behaviors that a group accepts and passes along from older to newer members

Question 2

Co-culture Definition

Answer 2

Co-culture: a group that shares many aspects of a primary culture but diverges in some way

Question 3

Cultures core resources (What are the three?)

Answer 3

• Cultures provide core resources
  ○ Beliefs
  ○ Attitudes
  ○ Values

Question 4

4 types of cultures (What are they?)

Answer 4

Cultures provide expectations about public speaking and listening
○ Individualistic cultures (this is what the united states is)
○ Collectivist cultures
○ Nonexpressive cultures
- Expressive cultures

Question 5

Transactional model (What is it?)

Answer 5

The transactional model depicts communication as a dialogical process in which communicators co-create messages in culturally appropriate situations

Question 6

Communication apprehension (CA) What is it?

Answer 6

Communication apprehension (CA): the fear or anxiety associated with either real or anticipated communication

Question 7

Martens’ model to handle anxiety (what are the three ways?)

Answer 7

Martens’ model to handle both process and performance anxiety:
1. Change the objective demand
2. Increase your response capacity
3. Change your perceptions and revaluate the consequences

Question 8

The five cannons of rhetoric (What are the 5?)

Answer 8

The five cannons of rhetoric
- Invention: creating the speech
- Disposition: organizing the content
- Style: choosing suitable language
- Memory: learning the speech
- Delivery: performing to an audience

Question 9

What are the 4 types of delivery?

Answer 9

• Memorized delivery
  
  • Manuscript delivery
  • Impromptu delivery
  • Extemporaneous delivery
    Consider nonverbal behaviors: tone of voice.

Question 10

Ethical communication (What is it?)

Answer 10

Ethical communication: speak and listen in ways that you consider:
- Right
- Fair
- Honest
- Helpful to others as well as yourself

Question 11

Plagiarism (What is it?)

Answer 11

Plagiarism: presenting the words, images, or ideas of others as if they were their own
○ Deliberate fraud
○ Cut and paste plagiarism
○ Improper paraphrase
○ Accidental plagiarism

Question 12

Fabrication (What is it?)

Answer 12

• Fabrication: making up information or repeating information without checking its accuracy
  ○ Do not cite a reference you did not actually read or pass along unsubstained information

Question 13

Five elements of listening (What are the 5?)

Answer 13

1. Receiving sounds
2. Discriminating or distinguishing them
3. Focusing attention
4. Assign meaning to the sounds
5. Remembering the information

Question 14

Stereotyping (What is it?)

Answer 14

Assuming who someone or what something is based on little factual knowledge