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COMM TEST 1 Flashcards

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1
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What is communication

A

Communication is the process through
which “people use messages to generate
meanings within and across contexts,
cultures, channels, and media.”

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Linear Communication

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The “Sender” sends a message to the “receiver” and that’s it.

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Interactive Communication

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Sender sends a message and the receiver gives them feedback.
Feedback EX: What does that mean?

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4
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Transactional Communication

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Both parties are communicators and are equally exchanging information with feedback

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What is Interpersonal Communication?

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Its a dynamic form of communication when the messages exchanged influence someone’s thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and relationships.

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Interpersonal I-Thou

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Treating people as people

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Impersonal I-It

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Treating people as their role rather than as people

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What is Meta-Communication

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Communication about communication

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Self Concept is?

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Who I think I am

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Self Esteem is

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How do I feel about who I am

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What is Perception?

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The process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting information from our senses

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Passive Perception vs Active Perception

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Passive: Happens fast without to much thought
Active: Perception you do on purpose..with thought

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13
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Selection is when..?

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We focus our attention on something specific

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Selective Attention

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Ignoring other things for something specific

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Selective Exposure

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choosing to put ourselves in situations and places that align with out beliefs/attitudes

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Selective Recall

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Choosing what memories to remember and which ones to forget

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Selective Thin Slicing

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Taking one piece of a person and using that to generalize who they are

18
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What does Salient mean?

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The degree in which something is important to you in that moment

19
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What does Organization mean? (In comm context)

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Selecting things and making a conclusion with the given information and our own PERSONAL bias

20
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What is Interpretation?

A

Organized information

21
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Perception Influences

A

The assumption we make based on our values, beliefs, and attitudes

22
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Internal Attributions vs External Attributions

A

Internal: That’s just how someone is
External: Maybe an outside force just caused them to act that way

23
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Fundamental attribution error

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Blaming someone’s actions on internal things when its actually external things.

24
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Self-serving bias

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Taking credit for success and blaming bad traits on external things.

25
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Self-enhancement bias

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Blaming someones actions on inteneral things when its actually external things.

26
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Gestalt

A

a quick positive or negative
mental picture of someone

27
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Algebraic Impression

A

Carefully evaluating each new thing we learn about a person

28
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Halo vs Horn Effect

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Halo: Can do no wrong without external causes
Horn: Can do no good without internal benefits.

29
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Implicit personality theory

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Taking traits and equaling them to other traits without 100% correlation.

30
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Uncertainty reduction

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Trying to find information to disprove a negative thing you notice about someone you like.

31
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Emotion is..?

A

Involving physiological arousal

32
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Moods are..?

A

low intensity state that typically last longer than feelings or emotions

33
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Feelings are..?

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“Small emotions” Short term that generate only limited arousal.

34
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Emotional intelligence is…?

A

the ability to interpret your own and other’s emotions accurately.

35
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Reappraisal

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Changing how you think about situations so that their emotional impact is changed

36
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Culture is..?

A

is an established, coherent set of
beliefs, attitudes, values, and practices
shared by a large group of people

37
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Assimilation

A

Suppress to fit in

38
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Accommodation

A

Represent for
acceptance

39
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Separation

A

Distance to challenge

40
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Ingroupers vs Outgroups

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Ingroup: People with similar cultures that you assume are similar to you.
Outgroup:

41
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Salience is..?

A

The degree to which particular people or aspects of their communication attract our attention

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