Final Flashcards
Mass communication
media centered
Interpersonal communication
talk between two or more people
group communication
groups talking about a topic
public communication
1 person talking to a group
public speaking process
speaker message audience channel noise feedback context
speaker
person giving a message
message
way of getting info across
audience
people receiving info
channel
way the message in conveyed
noise
interference with message
feedback
what audience gives to the speaker
context
environment
trait anxiety
any kind of communication scares you
situation anxiety
work class college-depends on the situation
systematic desensitization
technique to reduce anxiety
practice visualization
construct a mental image of yourself giving a speech
practice affirmation
telling yourself you can do it
cognitive reconstructing
replacing negative thoughts with positive thoughts
hearing
vibration of sound waves
listening
giving thoughtful attention to another persons words
general purpose
speech's broad goal: to inform to invite to persuade to introduce to commemorate to accept
specific purpose
focused statement that identifies exactly what a speaker wants to accomplish with a speech
master status
significant positions a person occupies within a society that affect that persons identity
standpoint
a persons views and evaluates society
attitude
positive or negative feeling a person has
belief
idea of what is real or not real
ethnocentrism
belief that own culture is superior to others
types of information
examples
narratives
testimony
statistics
patchwork
speech that you present as your own from portions of sources
global
stealing an entire speech from a single source and presenting it as your own