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Human Communication Flashcards

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What is Intrapersonal Communication?

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Communicating with oneself

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What is dyadic/intrapersonal communication?

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Two people communicating

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What is small group communication?

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Everyone communicating and participating with all members

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What is organisational communication?

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Large groups that communicate and work to achieve goals

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What is public communication?

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When or more people speak, while others listen.

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What is mass communication?

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Messages spread to large audiences, can be electronic or print media.

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What is message richness?

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Nonverbal cues that add clarity to verbal messages.

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What is synchronicity?

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Communicating in person or by phone that occurs in real time.

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What is kinesics?

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The use of posture and gesture

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What is paralanguage?

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The use of your voice

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What is proxemics?

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Using space and distance.

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Why is chronemics?

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Use of time.

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What are some challenging to listening?

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Physiological, environmental, psychological, message overload, cultural and media influences.

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What is the Lombard effect?

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It’s when the speaker involuntarily adjusts vocal efforts when talking in presence of noise. This can look like: increased vocal loudness, increase in pitch, changes to vowels.

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What is clear speech?

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Is the speaking style that is used when talking in a challenging communicative situations. Can look like slowing down rate of speech, increase in volume and pronunciation.

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What is lexically driven speech?

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What is lexically driven speech?

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Using the knowledge of language rules and structure to help facilitate understanding in adverse conditions. E.g. syntax and plausibility of word combination.

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What is sublexically driven speech?

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When listening scan the speech stream for cues as to when one word ends and another begins.

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What are the functions of communication?

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Function, social, physical, practical, identity

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What are the extralinguistic modes of communication?

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Paralinguistic, metalinguistic and nonlinguistic

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What are the linguistic modes of communication?

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Speaking and listening, writing and reading and signing.

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What are paralinguistic cues?

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Using the intonation, stress, speaking rate, pauses, pitch to emphasis meaning in speech.

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What is Metalinguistics?

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The ability to think and discuss language separate from its context or out of context. E.g. using context to make sense of information that you have been given.

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What are non linguistic cues?

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Using gesture, body posture, expressions, proxemics to emphasis communication

25
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What is phonology, morphology, and syntax?

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It holds the form of the communication. E.g. word order, word endings, speech.

26
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What is semantics?

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It holds the content of the communication. E.g. word meanings, the ways in which word meanings link together, sequencing.

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What is pragmatics?

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It is the use of communication. E.g. conversation, social rules, matching language to situation.

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What is the speed accuracy trade-off?

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It is when you trade off speed to gain more accuracy while speaking or vice versa
E.g. slowing your speech down when communicating with someone whose first language isn’t English.

29
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What is the pinna?

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The outer ear

30
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What is the ear canal?

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The canal between the outer and inner ear

31
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What is the tympanic membrane?

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The eardrum

32
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What is the middle ear?

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It is an air filled, membrane lined space between the outer and inner ear. This contains three smalls bones called the malleus, the incus and the stapes.

33
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What is the function of the middle ear?

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To transfer sound vibrations from your eardrum to your inner ear.

34
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What is the function of the Eustachian tube?

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The primary function is to equalise the air pressure between the atmosphere and the middle ear.

35
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What is found in the outer ear?

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The Tragus, ear canal

36
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What is found in the middle ear?

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The tympanic membrane (ear drum), the auditory ossicles (malleus, incus, stapes

37
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What is in the inner ear?

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Cochlea, vestibular nerve

38
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What is a common infection of the outer ear?

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Swimmers ear, the infection of the ear canal

39
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What is a common infection of the middle ear?

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Otitis media, fluid build up in the middle ear. Eustachian tube is closed and fluid can’t escape, is pushing outwards on ear drums.

40
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What is the McGurk effect?

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It is an auditory-visual illusion that illustrates how perceives merge information for speech sounds across the senses. When an auditory component is paired with the visual component of another sound, leading to a perception of a third sounds.

41
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What is priming?

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It’s the exposure to one stimulus that influences how a person responds to a related stimulus. E.g. Yanny and laurel

42
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What are the four components of speech production?

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Respiration, phonation, resonance, articulation

43
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What is respiration is speech?

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The breath support required for our speech

44
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What is phonation?

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It is the vibration of the vocal folds to create sound.

45
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What is resonance?

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It’s when the air travels through the oral or nasal cavities

46
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What is articulation?

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How we shape the sounds with our lips, teeth, tongue and palate.

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