Communication Exam 1 Review Flashcards
Body position, body motions, and facial movements
Kinesics
The physical process of sound waves hitting the eardrum
Hearing
Speaker’s Credibility
Ethos
Assuming we understand what another person thinks or feels
Mind reading
Appeal to emotions
Pathos
Absorbed in thoughts and concerns making it difficult to focus on what someone else is saying
Preoccupation
Communication through technology
Messages
Verbal signals are not intrinsically connected to what they represent
Arbitrary
Believed truth could be discerned from careful observation of reality and that we must deal with realities
Aristotle
The ability to perceive other people as unique individuals and situations are perceived as more comprehensive and integrated
Person centeredness
Vocal but not actual words
Paralanguage
The process of receiving, constructing meaning from, and responding to spoken and/or nonverbal messages
Listening
Putting together all that has been selected and organized to make sense of communication
Interpretation
Listening carefully for the purpose of gathering ammunition to use in attacking a speaker
Ambushing
Beliefs, values, understandings, practices, and ways of interpreting experience shared by many people
Culture
All aspects of communication other than words
Nonverbal
Physical touch
Haptics
Reflection of our interpretations of others’ communication back to them
Paraphrasing
Deduction that goes beyond what you know or assume to be fact
Inference
Stimulation, organization, and interpretation
Perception
Research method where scholars identify and challenge communication practices that oppress, marginalize, or otherwise harm individuals and social groups
Critical
Logic and reasoning
Logos
The systematic process in which people interact with and through symbols to create and interpret meaning
Communication
Abstract, arbitrary, and ambiguous representations of other things
Symbol
Pretending to listen
Pseudo Listening
The literal message
Content
Shared understanding among members of a particular culture or social group about what communication means and what behaviors are appropriate in various situations
Rules
Focusing on what is happening in the moment
Mindfulness
The bias where we attribute positive actions to internal, stable factors and our failures to external, unstable events out of our control
Self Serving
A way to mark a flow of activity into meaningful units
Punctuation
