COMMS TEST 1

Question 1

How is the word “rhetoric” often used to mean something other than what it really means?​

Answer 1

Rhetoric which refers to speaking well and persuasively (Swearingen, 2013). Today, we hear the word rhetoric used in negative ways. A politician, for example, may write off his or her opponent’s statements as “just rhetoric.” This leads us to believe that rhetoric refers to misleading, false, or unethical communication, which is not at all in keeping with the usage of the word by ancient or contemporary communication experts.

Question 2

How is mass​
communication ​
different from public communication?​

Answer 2

Mass communication is on electrical devises and public communication is like a world leader.

Question 3

Describe the Transmission Model of Communication. ​

Answer 3

Someone sending a message to a reciver

Question 4

How are intrapersonal and interpersonal communication different?​

Answer 4

Intrapt is by yourself and interpersonal is a group

Question 5

Explain what you know about the Interaction Model of Communication.​

Answer 5

A descosion where sender gets feedbakc from a reciver.

Question 6

What is an example of group communication? How does it classify as group communication?​

Answer 6

A group communication is like the disscotions face off and is where 3 or more people comtogether and work together to a commen goal.

Question 7

Describe what your Physical needs are.​

Answer 7

FOOD, A place to live, ect

Question 8

Describe what civic engagement is.​

Answer 8

Is where you help the town by doing civil work like desscussing your opinions on how to make a community better in neighborhood advisory bords

Question 9

How do we describe “Communication is a process”?​

Answer 9

Communication is a process that involves an interchange of verbal and/or nonverbal messages within a continuous and dynamic sequence of events (Hargie, 2011). When we refer to communication as a process, we imply that it doesn’t have a distinct beginning and end or follow a predetermined sequence of events

Question 10

What sports metaphors help us to understand the Transmission and Interaction Models of communication?​

Answer 10

football because quarterbacks and recivers send a message which is the ball

Question 11

Why do we study perception in a communication course?​

Answer 11

Perception helps us understand why type of emotions and language we need to use to give people feedback or send messages.

Question 12

What is the first part of the perception process, and what does it involve?​

Answer 12

the first part, selecting envoles getting interested in something because of our salince, salince is the degree something attracts us.

Question 13

What is the difference between internal and external attributions?​

Answer 13

Internal is using emotions to understand the situational factors and external is using situational factors to understand someone’s emotions

Question 14

Describe “schemata“ and give an example.​

Answer 14

Using your past knowlegh to assosiate cirtine things to other things.

Question 15

What are the three stages of the perception process? Explain one of the stages.​

Answer 15

Selecting, organizing, and interpretation. selecting is out of all the obects which ones are most intresting

Question 16

How do we decide what to select in a text? ​

Answer 16

the levels of salince its giving us

Question 17

How does salience change how we perceive information?​

Answer 17

Salience is the level of interest a noise or movment has on us and we usually only focus on the high interesting causing us to forget little details

Question 18

How might we form first impressions based on physical and environmental characteristics? ​

Answer 18

If something is dirty we thing that is not safe or the person who is here is not clean an example is if you go into somonse room and its durty you have the impression that that persion is not clean

Question 19

Explain what the self-fulfilling prophecy is. Give an example.​

Answer 19

Self-fulfiling is judeing something badly and saying this outcome will come to this until it comes true and example is saying I’m not listening to this soccer teacher because he’s fat and he is not going to be a good teacher so you don’t listen and you don’t learn anything.

Question 20

What are stereotypes? How can they hurt people’s feelings?​

Answer 20

a jufment we make on a group of people because only a few did it, this can hurt someone’s feeling because your judjeing them because of other people’s action

Question 21

What is the looking-glass self? Give an example.​

Answer 21

form a self concept form other people reactions to us. Saying I’m smart because teachers has said that I am a smart boy

Question 22

Describe SQ3R and why it’s a good study method.​

Answer 22

S is survery your subject and Q is question your subject first R is restate your answer second R is recall your answers and the last R is repetion, repeat recalling. This helps us memorize the work and acully understand what we are leaning.

Question 23

What does the S in Sq3r stand for and what does it instruct us to do?​

Answer 23

S is survey and it makes us go through what we are studing and were trying to get a feel of what do we need to learn so then we can create questions to go the next step.

Question 24

Identify and explain where in the revised SQ3R the Feynman Technique comes into play.​

Answer 24

rephrese, that is the first R in the SQ3R and your trying to rephrase the answer and pretend your trying to teach it to someone, which is what the Feynman technique is.

Question 25

What is the Feynman Technique and why does it work?​

Answer 25

The feyman technique is leaning a subject very well so that you could be able to teach it to somone

Question 26

Explain “long-term retention” within the Feynman technique.​

Answer 26

instead of moving subject to subject try to practice and make sure you undersand a subject before moving on an example si using flashcards to test yourself

Question 27

Explain how the Forest productivity app Mike and Matty showed in their productivity video works.​

Answer 27

It is a timer and it starts off by planting a seed in the beginning and having the seed grow into a tree at the end and if you close out the tap anyway along the progress your tree will die which in not a good thing.

Question 28

Why is the app useful to the brothers and how does it help them?​

Answer 28

The apps are useful because they keep them organized and not be distracted, this leading to them doing more work.

Question 29

What is the Pomodoro Method? How do Mike and Matty implement it as illustrated in their video?​
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Answer 29

The pomodoro methid is using 25 minutes to work and 5 mintue break sessions. Mike and Matty used the 25 minutes to work without distractions and when the timer went off they took a 5 minute break doing chores.

Question 30

Name one common study practice that the authors of Make It Stick suggest students abandon and why.​

Answer 30

Re-reading a piece of text, because this causes us to feel like were mastering the piece but we are really not. when re-reading your trying to burn the information into your memory without really learning what your actually doing

Question 31

Explain how the cranberry metaphor is important in the Make It Stick model.​

Answer 31

A child is trying to string crambarie to a tree but it keeps falling off and crambarie is the knowledge and the string is our brain and the ownly way to keep crambaries from not going away is to tie the knot and each time you come back to add more crambaries the knot gets tighntend, which is like say that each time your practice the knowledge it gets easier to remember

Question 32

Explain the technique of spaced repetition. ​

Answer 32

Waiting until justbefore forgetting somting to repeat it and learn it again, spaced repetition is learning a subjuct over and over in a period of time

Question 33

Explain why it is important to call people by the correct names and pronouns.​

Answer 33

Respect, calling people by what they want to call shows respect and doing it incorrectly can be a sign of not respecting someone and it can hurt people feeling

Question 34

What is the name for the method we discussed to remember things, and how are you using it to remember one of your classmates’ names?​

Answer 34

Mnemonics, we use other things that are common and connect them to people names so we can remember them

Question 35

What is the song “Still…You Turn Me On” By ELP about?​

Answer 35

Getting away from the fame.

Question 36

What is the purpose of “white board work”? What are we doing with the selfies we take in class?​

Answer 36

At the end of the cycle we will look at all the photos and make a slide show showing all our emotions each day.

Question 37

What is gamification of learning?​

Answer 37

When you make stuff a game.

Question 38

Explain Jamie Whyte’s argument that we do not have a right to our opinion.​

Answer 38

Our opinion is wrong unless you have evidence to back it up.

Question 39

Explain the fallacy of equivocation.​

Answer 39

Using two different meaning of a word in the same argument.

Question 40

What do most people not know about the bass guitar according to Ms. Tino?​

Answer 40

Rythim instrument.

Question 41

What is a stipulative definition, and how can it help to avoid the fallacy of equivocation?​

Answer 41

Using a different definition for a word and knowing your using one definition for a word so that you don’t use it again.

Question 42

How can peer pressure be used to improve academic performance?​

Answer 42

It can motive people because instead of just failing you are also failing other people

Question 43

According to Jamie Whyte, what is the difference between the legal/political and the epistemic definitions of a right?​

Answer 43

acording to the law you have the right to your own opinion but according to the epistemic definitions of a right is that to have your own opinion it has to be correct and backed with evidence

Question 44

What are the two main types of communication, and how are they distinguished from one another?​

Answer 44

Verbal communication and non-verbal communication.