FSOT Master 16 Flashcards
emotional response theory
any human emotion experienced can be interpreted along three deminsions
emotive language
language that conveys the senders attitude rather than simply offering an objective description
empathetic listening
listening in which the goals are to help the speaker solve a problem
empathy
the ability to project one’s self into another person’s point of view, so as to experience the others thoughts and feelings
encoding
translating ideas, feelings and thought into code
-ex: vocalizing a word, gesturing, establishing eye contact
enculturation?
The process of learning your culture that you are born into
episode
series of interactions between individuals during which the mssage of one person influences the messages of another
equality
a type of supportive communication suggesting that the sender reguards as worthy of respect
equivocal language
language with one or more interpretations
equivocal words
words that have more than one dictionary definition
equivocation
a vague statement that can be interpreted in more than one way
escalatory conflict spiral
a reciprical pattern of communications of which messages between communicators reinforce eachother
ethics
beliefs, values, and moral principals by which we determine what is right or wrong
euphemism
a pleaseant sounding word used in place of a more direct less pleaseant one
evaluative communication
messages in which the sender judges the reciever in some way
examples of culture?
language, laws, religion, ways of acting/thinking
examples of transitional devices you can use to show a contrasting relationship?
But, still, however, neavertheless, andyet.
Expentancy Violations Model
A model that suggests that we develope rules or expectations for appropraite non verbal behavior and react when those expectations are violated.
Explain the following formula: SAB=SAC+2.
A single accomplishment bullet consists of the following attributes: specific, accurate, concise, single accomplishment/achievment, and impact.
Explain the two audience concept as it applies to communication?
Every communication has a sending and receiving audience. The sending audience is the group we represent, while the receiving audience is the group with whom we are communicating.
extemporaneous speaking mode
developing a set of “talking points,” such as notes or an outline, to assist them in presenting their ideas
extensional orientation?
tendency to look first at the actual people, objects, and events and then look at their labels
eye contact
looking into the eyes of your audience as you speak
fabrication
making up information or guessing at information and making it appear true
face
is the most significant place to express emotion
face work
verbal and nonverbal behavior designed to create and maintain a communicators face and the face of others
fact-interference confusion?
when someone makes an inference and thinks its a fact and acts upon it as a fact but really isn’t
factual statement
statement that can be verified as being true of false
Feedback
response to a message
feedforward?
information you provide before sending your primary message
five different patterns used when organizing a presentation.
Types of patterns include: topical; time or chronological; reason;problem-solution; spatial or geographical; and/or summarize of facts or data
five types of support and give a brief description of each.
(1) Definitions explain or clarify unfamiliar items; (2) examples provide an illustration of what we are trying to communicate; (3) comparisonsprovide a reference to a similar and usually better known item; (4) testimony express the item through the words and thoughts of others; and (5)statistics show relationships and/or summarize collections of facts or data.
For what three reasons do we generally try to communicate with each other?
We communicate to direct, influence or inform our audience.
forecast
a statement that alerts the audience to ideas that are coming
four concepts of self-efficacy?
predicting our performance, relationally-based self-efficacy judgments, gut-feeling based, and consequences expected from your performance
four parts to self-image?
Phsychological(introspection), physical self-image, emotional self-image, intellectual self-image
four resources for researching your subject.
Four available resources are the library, the internet, referance books, and individuals.
four steps in the process of writing?
(1)Prewriting, (2)drafting, (3)editing, and(4)revising.
four types of sentences you should use throughout your written communication.
(1) Simple sentence-a sentence that expresses one complete thought.
(2) Compound sentence-A union of two or more simple sentences.
(3) Complex sentence-a simple sentence with a dependent clause attatched to it.
(4) Compound-complex sentence-a combination of a compound and a complex sentence
Geert Hofstede
created a framework of culture
Gender
A cultural construction that includes one’s biological sex, psychological charaterics (feminnity, mascularity and drogyny), attitudes about the sexes and sexual orientation
Generalized other perspective
Future predicted based on what people generally do
Generic Language
General terms that stad for all persons or things within a given category.
gestures
incorporate the use of hands, body movements, and facial expressions
Gibb Categories
six sets of contrasting styles of verbal and nonverbal behavior
goal of the speech
expressed in terms of its expected outcome
Group
A collection of people who have a common goal, feel a sense of belonging to the group, and influence each other.
halo
attractive: smart, happy, rich, honest
Halo Effect
One good quality implied other ones
haptics
study of human touching behaviors
Health Communication
The study of communication that has an impact on human health.
Hearing
The physiological process of decoding sounds
hearing informational speaking
the process where a sound wave strikes the ear-drum and causes vibrations that are transmitted to the brain
Heterosexist Language
Language that revels an assumption that the world is heterosexual, as if hemosexuality or bisexual did not exist.
heterostereotype
observation about another culture without judgement
high content culture
a culture that avoids direct use of language to express information especially about relational matters
high power distance culture
inequalities expected, children respect parents, teachers take initiative, hierarchy is normal
high-context culture?
information shared through assumptions, information is communicated but not stated explicitly.
Homophobic Language
Language that overtly denigrates persons of non-heterosexual orientations, usually arising out of a fear of being labeled gay or lesbian
Honeymoon stage
Everything seems fabulous
horn effect
one bad quality implies others
How are concepts of communication preperation universal?
The basic philosophy and guidance for effective writing and speaking are the same. Both involve getting started with the communication, subject research, support selection, and organizing.
How are people with low self-esteem counterintuitive?
they pay more attention to negative evaluations; are more likely to have partners with similar self views; experience worse health after experiencing positive events
How are the concepts of communication preparation universal?
The basic philosophy and guidance for effective writing and speaking are the same. Both involve getting started with the communication, subject research, support selection, and organizing.
How are transitional devices valuable tools when arranging the elements your message?
Transitional devices, when woven skillfully into your message, can assist your audience in following your train of thought.
How can communication be a nonverbal behavior?
the clothes you wear, the way you walk, shake hands, cock you head, comb your hair, sit and smile
How do communications flow within an orginization?
Communications flow in three directions-upward, downward, and lateral.
How do you use number to maintain pargraph coherence?
If the controlling idea is singular, you keep all the references to it singular.
How does culture affect communication?
talking with friends, lovers, family; interacting in group; topics you talk about and strategies used to inform and persuade; how you use the media and the credibility you give it
How does self-concept develop?
others tell us who we are; social comparisons; culture; and gender
How is culture primarily passed on?
through culture
how is effect implemented in communication?
There is always an outcome or consequence from an action or behavior, communication always has an effect
How many Americans define themselves a non-white?
1 in 4
How many types of accomplishment bullet statements are there? Name them.
There are three-action verb bullet; modified verb bullet; and specific achievment bullet.
How many types of physical behaviors are there? Name them.
There are three types of physical behavior: eye contact, body movement and gestures.
How you look at yourself, the mental picture of how you believe you appear to others, and how you picture yourself physically to others are characteristics of what?
Self-image or self-awareness
Human Communication
the process of making sense out of the world and sharing that sense with others bt creating meaning through verbal and non verbal messages
human communication as a transaction
- when communication is mutually interactive
- created based on concurrent sharing of ideas and feelings
human communication as action
think: one way
- linear
human communication as an interaction
reciever responds to source with feedback.
-linear action/reaction within a certain context
hyperpersonal communication
a certain type of interpersonal communication that is facilitated by using a computer to establish relationship with others because you are more mindful about what you’re saying.
ideal model of communication?
transactional communication
Illustrator
A non verbal behavior that accompanies a verbal message and either complemets, contradicts, or accents it.
illustrators
non verbal behaviors that accompany and support non verbal messages
Immediacy
Non verbal behavior such as eye contact, foward lean, touch and open body orientation that communicate feelings of liking pleasure and closeness. the degree of interest or attraction we feel toward and communicate to others
Impersonal Communication
communication that treats people as objects or that responds only to their roles, rather thanto who they are as quique people.
Implicit personality theory
our past influences how we judge others
impression
must have met a person to form one
impression formation theory
we make up stories about people
impression management
stratagies used by communicators to influence the way others view them
impromptu speaking
a speaker uses information acquired from experience, speaks with little or no preparation, and organizes ideas while he or she is communicating
In what manner did Socrates describe speech? How did this correlate to a speech structure?
Socrates analogized the parts of a speech to a body of an animal having a head(Introduction), body, and tail(Conclusion).
In what way can organization personnel verify whether they are engaging critically and constructively in the exchange of ideas?
By completing a short, self-diagnostic exercise that personal but applicable barriers to communicating.
in which communication type do you interact with others, normally two people?
interpersonal
In which culture are messages clearly verbalized?
low-context culture.
in which part of a speech or written presentation would you evaluate the use integration of transitions?
Organization.
In which type of communication are you entertained, informed, and persuaded by the media?
mass communication
indirect communication
hinting at a message instead of expressing thoughts and feelings directly
Indirect Preception Checking
Using your own perceptual abilities to seek additional information to confirm or refute someoes behavior.
indiscrimination?
not evaluating an individual as unique, categorizing them in a group
individualism/collectivism
whether an individual places importance on self or on community
individualist culture.
individual values such as power, achievement, hedonism, and stimulation (Americans fall under this category) success is measured by how well you outshine others, and you are responsible for you and you alone.
inferential statement
conclusion arrived at from an interpretation of evidence
influences on perception
physiological, and social
informative briefing
fundamental objective to present information to a specialized audience, followed by the exchange of data, ideas, and questions among participants
informative speaking
has been defined as discourse that imparts new information, secures understanding, or reinforces accumulated information
insensitive listeners
failure to recognize the thoughts or feelings that are not directly expressed by a speaker instead accepting the speakers words at face value
insulated listeners
a style in which the reciever ignores undesirable information
intensional orientation?
the tendency to view people, objects, and events according to the way they are talked about
interactional view of communication?
the speaker and listener take turns speaking and listening.
intercultural communication?
where you communicate with members of other cultures
internal summary
a short restatement of what has just been said in the section that you are about to leave, before proceeding to the next segment
internation communication
country based communication
interpersonal communication
- mutual influence
- for the purpose of managing a realtionship
- specific kind of human communication
- when you view reciever as unique authentic individual
Interpretation
Attaching meaning to what is attended to, selected, and organized
intimacy
a state of closness between two people
intimate distance
one of Halls four distance zones ranging from skin contact to eighteen inches
intracultural communication
1 culture communication
IntRApersonal Communication
Communication that occurs within yourself including your thoughts and emotins.
Interpersonal Communication
communication that occurs simultaniously between two people who attempt to mutually influence each other, usually for the purpose of managing relationship.
introduction to a speech
to gain the listeners’ attention and orient them to the material that will be presented
jargon
the specialized vocabulary that is used as kind of a short hand by people with common backgrounds and experience
Johari model of self disclosure
window of self (open,blind,hidden,unknown)
johari window
a model that describes the realstionship between self disclosure and self awareness
judging
a reaction in which the reciever evaluates the sender’s message either favorably of un favorably
kinesics
the study of body movement posture and gesture
Language
The system of symbols(words or vocabulary) structured by rules (grammer) that makes it possible for people to understand one another.
language distortion where one assumes that all can be known or is known about a given person?
allness
leakage cues
eye contact, shoulder shrug
lecture
the formal presentation of material to facilitate learning
linear view of communication.
the speaker speaks and the listener listens
linguistic determinism
theory that a culture’s world view is unavoidably shaped and reflected by the language its members speak
linguistic relativism
a moderate form of linguistic determinism that argues that language exerts a strong influence on perceptions of the people who speak it
List five categories of refrence tools.
Almanacs, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Thesauruses, E-resources.
listenable speech
one that is formatted in a way that when it is received it is understood by listener
Listening
Acomplex process of receiving constructing meaning fromand responding to verbal and non verbal messges which involves selecting attending and responding
Listening style
A persons preferred way of making sense uot of messages.
lose-lose problem solving
an approach to conflict resoloution in which neither parties achieve their goals
low context culture
a culture that relies heavily on language to make messages especially of relational nature explicit
low power distance culture
inequalities minimized, parents and kids equal, students take initiative, hierarchy is exploitive
low-monitored-high-monitored dimension of feedback?
feedback varies from spontaneous and totally honest to carefully constructed responses
low-power-distance culture?
power is evenly distributed between citizenry
manipulators
movements in which one part of the body grooms masages rubs holds fidgets pinches picks or otherwise manipulates another part
manuscript speech mode
the material is written out and delivered word for word; offers the advantages of providing accurate language and solid organization; gives the speaker a permanent written record of the speech
masc./femm. culture
masc=success,money,assertive,competitiveness
femm=caring for others, quality of life
masculine culture.
people value male aggressivenes, material success and strength; women are valued for modesty
Mass Communication
Communication accomplished through a mediated message that is sent to many people at the same time.
Material Self
The element of the self reflected in all the tangible things you own.
Meaning
A person interpretation of a symbol
meanings are
culture bond, and context bond
media richness theory
identifies richness of a communication medium based on the amount of information, including emotional expression, it communicates.
- the amount of feedback they can recieve
- number of ques channel can convey
- variety of language
- potential for emotion and feeling
- when saying something negetive, you might choose a less rich form of communication
Mediated Communication
Any communication that is carried out using some channel other than those used in faced-to-face communication
mediated interpersonal communication
communications with others established or maintained through media.
-anonyminity
-physical apperance: less emphasis
-distance
time-ASYNCHRONIOUS(message are not easily read or heard at the time they are sent
memorized speech mode
a speech is written out word for word and then committed to memory
Message
Written, spoken and unspoken elements of communication to which people assign meaning
messages sent back to the speaker reacting to what was said?
feedback
messages that contradict themselves?
mixed messages
Meta- Message
The message about the message
metacommunication?
communication about communication
method of arrangement for the body of a speech
a guide selected for sequencing information for listener clarity
method of speech development
encompasses how you plan to approach the presentation
mind
a method of arranging materials visually rather than in list form
mind-mapping.
Mind mapping is a brainstorming activity in which you allow your unorganized thoughts to flow onto paper, connecting like items/thoughts as you progress.
Model for communication as an interaction
Source-message-Channel-reviever
reviever provides feedback (affected by noise and context) which circles back to source.
modes of speech presentation
the preparation method and reference aids to be used during the speech–impromptu, extemporaneous, manuscript, and memorized
nature of communication?
to discover, to relate, to help, to persuade and to play
negative core beliefs?
not good enough, powerless, don’t know, in danger, defective/imperfect
Neologism
A new term introduces into a language.