Communication Basics
Perception & Language
Listening & Interpersonal Communication
Public Speaking
Groups & Media
100

This communication model describes communication as simultaneous and continuous. 

What is the Transactional Model? 

100

This is the process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting information.

What is perception? 

100

This process is physical rather than learned.

What is hearing? 

100

This is the preferred delivery method for most speeches.

What is extemporaneous? 

100

This is the first stage of Tuckman's model of group development.

What is Forming? 

200

This term refers to anything that interferes with communication.

What is noise? 

200

In perception, this describes why certain people, objects, or events grab your attention more than others.

What is salience? 

200

The 5 stages of this process are: receiving, interpreting, remembering, evaluating, and responding. 

What is the listening process? 

200

The three types for this kind of analysis are demographic, psychological, and situational. 

Hint: What do they already know? What do they need to know? What are some beliefs and values they share? 

What is an audience analysis? 

200

This leadership style gives group members the greatest amount of freedom.

What is laissez-faire leadership?

300

This is the ability to communicate effectively and appropriately in a given situation.

What is communication competence? 

300

These two terms refer to a word's dictionary definition and its emotional meaning.

What are denotation and connotation?

300

This conflict management style seeks a win-win solution for everyone involved.

What is collaborating? 

300

These are Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals.

What is pathos, logos, and ethos? 

300

These are the three categories of group roles.

What are task, social, and individual roles?

400

This characteristic means communication cannot be taken back once it has occurred.

What is irreversibility? 

400

This concept explains how expectations can influence behavior and outcomes.

What is the self-fulfilling prophecy? 

400

This theory explains that relationships develop through increasing breadth and depth of self-disclosure.

Hint: Onion

What is the Social Penetration Theory? 

400

These are the five steps of Monroe's Motivated Sequence in order.

What are Attention, Need, Satisfaction, Visualization, and Action?

400

This is the ability to critically evaluate media messages.

What is media literacy? 

500

These are the four types of communication interference.

What are physical, psychological, semantic, and physiological noise?

500

According to this concept, words themselves do not have meaning; people assign meaning to them.

What is the Triangle of Meaning? 

500

These are the five conflict management styles.

What are avoiding, accommodating, competing, compromising, and collaborating?

500

These are the three proposition types used in persuasive speaking.

What are propositions of fact, value, and policy?

500

A committee debates until every member agrees before moving forward. This decision-making method is being used.

What is concensus? 

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