COMMS TEST 1 Flashcards
How is the word “rhetoric” often used to mean something other than what it really means?
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.
How is mass
communication
different from public communication?
Mass communication is on electrical devises and public communication is like a world leader.
Describe the Transmission Model of Communication.
Someone sending a message to a reciver
How are intrapersonal and interpersonal communication different?
Intrapt is by yourself and interpersonal is a group
Explain what you know about the Interaction Model of Communication.
A descosion where sender gets feedbakc from a reciver.
What is an example of group communication? How does it classify as group communication?
A group communication is like the disscotions face off and is where 3 or more people comtogether and work together to a commen goal.
Describe what your Physical needs are.
FOOD, A place to live, ect
Describe what civic engagement is.
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
How do we describe “Communication is a process”?
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
What sports metaphors help us to understand the Transmission and Interaction Models of communication?
football because quarterbacks and recivers send a message which is the ball
Why do we study perception in a communication course?
Perception helps us understand why type of emotions and language we need to use to give people feedback or send messages.
What is the first part of the perception process, and what does it involve?
the first part, selecting envoles getting interested in something because of our salince, salince is the degree something attracts us.
What is the difference between internal and external attributions?
Internal is using emotions to understand the situational factors and external is using situational factors to understand someone’s emotions
Describe “schemata“ and give an example.
Using your past knowlegh to assosiate cirtine things to other things.
What are the three stages of the perception process? Explain one of the stages.
Selecting, organizing, and interpretation. selecting is out of all the obects which ones are most intresting
How do we decide what to select in a text?
the levels of salince its giving us
How does salience change how we perceive information?
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
How might we form first impressions based on physical and environmental characteristics?
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
Explain what the self-fulfilling prophecy is. Give an example.
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.
What are stereotypes? How can they hurt people’s feelings?
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
What is the looking-glass self? Give an example.
form a self concept form other people reactions to us. Saying I’m smart because teachers has said that I am a smart boy
Describe SQ3R and why it’s a good study method.
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.
What does the S in Sq3r stand for and what does it instruct us to do?
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.
Identify and explain where in the revised SQ3R the Feynman Technique comes into play.
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.
What is the Feynman Technique and why does it work?
The feyman technique is leaning a subject very well so that you could be able to teach it to somone
Explain “long-term retention” within the Feynman technique.
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
Explain how the Forest productivity app Mike and Matty showed in their productivity video works.
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.
Why is the app useful to the brothers and how does it help them?
The apps are useful because they keep them organized and not be distracted, this leading to them doing more work.
What is the Pomodoro Method? How do Mike and Matty implement it as illustrated in their video?
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.
Name one common study practice that the authors of Make It Stick suggest students abandon and why.
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
Explain how the cranberry metaphor is important in the Make It Stick model.
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
Explain the technique of spaced repetition.
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
Explain why it is important to call people by the correct names and pronouns.
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
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?
Mnemonics, we use other things that are common and connect them to people names so we can remember them
What is the song “Still…You Turn Me On” By ELP about?
Getting away from the fame.
What is the purpose of “white board work”? What are we doing with the selfies we take in class?
At the end of the cycle we will look at all the photos and make a slide show showing all our emotions each day.
What is gamification of learning?
When you make stuff a game.
Explain Jamie Whyte’s argument that we do not have a right to our opinion.
Our opinion is wrong unless you have evidence to back it up.
Explain the fallacy of equivocation.
Using two different meaning of a word in the same argument.
What do most people not know about the bass guitar according to Ms. Tino?
Rythim instrument.
What is a stipulative definition, and how can it help to avoid the fallacy of equivocation?
Using a different definition for a word and knowing your using one definition for a word so that you don’t use it again.
How can peer pressure be used to improve academic performance?
It can motive people because instead of just failing you are also failing other people
According to Jamie Whyte, what is the difference between the legal/political and the epistemic definitions of a right?
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
What are the two main types of communication, and how are they distinguished from one another?
Verbal communication and non-verbal communication.
