Week 1 - Ch. 1 & 2

Question 1

Channel

Answer 1

The medium through which the message passes

Question 2

Co-culture

Answer 2

Different communication practices:
Age
Occupation
Sexual orientaiton
Physical disability
Religion
Activity

Question 3

Cognitive Complexity

Answer 3

The ability to construct a variety of frameworks for viewing an issue.

Question 4

Communication Competence

Answer 4

Achieving one’s goals in a manner that, in most cases, maintains or enhances the relationship in which it occurs. Both affective and appropriate.

Question 5

Content Dimension

Answer 5

Involves the information being explicitly discussed.

Question 6

Decode

Answer 6

Makes sense of the message

Question 7

Dyad

Answer 7

Two interacting people

Question 8

Encodes

Answer 8

Puts thoughts into symbols and gestures

Question 9

Environment

Answer 9

Fields of experience that affect how they understand others behavior. Physical location AND personal experiences and cultural background.

Question 10

Impersonal Communication

Answer 10

Opposite of interpersonal communication. Not two person exchanges.

Question 11

Instrumental Goals

Answer 11

Getting others to behave in ways we want

Question 12

Interpersonal Communications

Answer 12

A transactional process involving participants who occupy different but overlapping environments and creating meaning and relationships through the exchange of messages, affected by the external, physiological and psychological noise.

Question 13

Linear Communication Model

Answer 13

Depicts communication as something a sender does to a receiver
A sender encodes a message, sending it through a channel, to a receiver who decodes, while contending with noise.

Question 14

Message

Answer 14

The information being transmitted

Question 15

Noise

Answer 15

Distractions that disrupt transmission.

Question 16

Receiver

Answer 16

The person attending to the messages

Question 17

Relational dimension

Answer 17

Expresses how you feel about another person

Question 18

Self-monitoring

Answer 18

Process of paying close attention to one’s behavior and using these observations to shape the way one behaves.

Question 19

Sender

Answer 19

The person creating the message

Question 20

Transactional communication model

Answer 20

Updates and expands the linear model to better capture communication as a uniquely human process. Uses the word communicator instead of a sender and receiver. reflects that people typically send and receive simultaneously not unidirectional.

Question 21

Asynchronous

Answer 21

There’s a delay between the time a message is sent and when it’s received.

Question 22

Cyberbullying

Answer 22

A malicious art in which one or more parties aggressively harass a victim online, often in public forums.

Question 23

Cyberstalking

Answer 23

Unhealthy, obsessive behaviors such as cyber obsessional pursuit or obsessive relational pursuit, taken into extreme.

Question 24

Disinhibition

Answer 24

When online, communicators express themselves more honestly and bluntly with less caution and self-monitoring.

Question 25

Hyperpersonal Communication

Answer 25

An accelerated discussion of personal topics and relational development beyond what normally happens in face-to-face interaction.

Question 26

Leanness

Answer 26

Messages that are stark from a lack of nonverbal information.

Question 27

Mediated communication

Answer 27

Involve connecting through some electronic medium rather than face-to-face interaction.

Question 28

Online surveillance

Answer 28

A way of discreet monitoring the social activities of unknowing targets through social computing spaces.

Question 29

Richness

Answer 29

The abundance of nonverbal cues that add clarity to a verbal message.

Question 30

Social media

Answer 30

Forms of electronic communication through which users create online communities.

Question 31

Synchronicity

Answer 31

The condition when communicators are all connected in real time.