Chapter 1
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
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Meaning
What is the understanding of the message. People hope to generate common meanings through the messages they provide.
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Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC)
What is includes communication and information shared through communication networks.
100
Perception
What is the process of using the senses to acquire information about the surrounding environment or situation.
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Language
What is a collection of symbolic letters, or words with arbitrary meanings that are governed by rules and used to communicate.
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Artifacts
What is are ornaments or adornments you display that hold communicative potential, including jewelry, hairstyles, cosmetics, automobiles, canes, watches, shoes, portfolios, hats, glasses, tattoos, body piercings, and even fillings in teeth.
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message
What is the verbal and nonverbal form of the idea, thought, or feeling that one person (the source) wishes to communicate to another person of group of people (the receivers).
200
Mass communication
What is the process of using messages to generate meanings in a mediated system, between a source and a large number of unseen receivers.
200
Perceptual checking
What is a process of describing, interpreting, and verifying that helps you understand another person and his or her message more accurately.
200
Phatic communication
What is communication that is used to establish a mood of sociability rather than to communicate information or ideas.
200
chronemics
What is the way that people organize and use time and the messages that are created because of their organization and the use of it.
300
Nonverbal codes
What is all symbols that are not words, including bodily movements, the use of space and time, clothing and other adornments, and sounds other than words.
300
Interpersonal communication
What is the process of using messages to generate meaning between at least two people in a situation that allows mutual opportunities for both speaking and listening.
300
Three types of communication used to manage impressions:
What is manner, appearance, setting?
300
Denotative meaning
What is the agreed-upon meaning or dictionary meaning of a word.
300
Paralinguistic features
What is the non-word sounds and non-word characteristics of language, such as pitch, volume, rate, and quality.
400
Feedback
What is the receiver’s verbal and nonverbal response to the source’s message.
400
channel
What is the means by which a message moves from the source to the receiver of the message.
400
Perceptual constancy
What is the idea that your past experiences lead you to see the world in a way that is difficult to change; your initial perceptions persist.
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Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
What is a theory that our perception of reality is determined by our thought processes which are limited by our language, and therefore that language shapes our reality.
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Tactile communication
What is the use of touch in communication. Involves invasion of another person’s personal space – it commands attention.
500
Intrapersonal communication
What is the process of using messages to generate meaning within the self.
500
Dyadic communication
What is two-person communication such as an interview, one-on-one interactions with acquaintances or friends, etc.
500
Errors in Perception:
What are Stereotyping, Prejudice, Out-groups , and first impressions all examples of?
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Regionalisms
What is words and phrases specific to a particular region or part of the country.
500
Ekman’s categorizations of movement:
What are Emblems • Illustrators • Affect Displays • Regulators • Adaptors
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