Chapter 5
________ cultures engage in direct, verbal, and explicit communication.
Low-context
What did the textbook define as the three active and interrelated stages of the perception process? Our first stage is ______ , the second stage is _______ , and the third stage is _______ .
selection, organization, and interpretation.
True or false: Our textbook definition of ethnocentrism is the tendency to perceive what is right or wrong according to the categories and values of one's own culture.
True
The textbook notes, according to Allison’s theory of narration, human beings are not just storytellers, but they are ____________.
Story-living
The textbook argues how _____________ refers to artistic beauty.
aesthetic
Individuals in _________ cultures are less aware of nonverbal cues which include United States, Germany, and Switzerland cultures.
Low-context
How cognitive constructs, prototypes, personal constructs, stereotypes, and scripts help us _______ and _______ meaning.
interpret, assign
Our textbook explained how your ______________ represent the unique standpoint you have based on social groups you belong to.
Positionality
True or False: According to the Communication in Action text, performance is defined.
False
The textbook explicated how the ______________ seeks to coordinate our everyday interactions with one another based on five key elements: act, scene, agent, agency, and purpose.
Dramatistic Pentad
___________ occurs when one group of people has power to make their view of the world seem like the only one.
Hegemony
In the lecture video we learned how this theory helps us assign meaning to behavior by ascribing motives and causes.
Attribution Theory
The lecture video discussed how we use _________ as a means for making sense and organizing our perceptions so that we can assign meaning.
cognitive constructs
The textbook stated how from Burke's perspective all human beings are _________ .
Performers
Performance, in our textbook, is a metaphor for how we view the _______ .
World
Prejudice is different than discrimination because prejudice refers to an individual's ____, whereas discrimination refers to their _____.
Attitudes, actions
The lecture video compared this key concept to a mental yard stick.
personal constructs
The lecture video stated how Mead defined identity in three parts. The self is one part which ______
includes our identity
The lecture video discussed performance in everyday life and how Goffman created the notion "we are all already performers" and we enact our performance behaviors based upon our ________ .
Socialization
True or False: Our textbook discussed how communication scholar, Burke, posits "Agency" explains who is doing or performing the action.
False
Dr. Anderson-Lain explained how ______ refers to the unique differences in people, whereas ______ refers to the communication practices that both unify and distinguish them from the general culture.
Diversity, co-cultural communication
The lecture video explained how we can create a private language within our relationships and the interpretation of specific words can also change on a relational level of meaning. This explicated the __________ phase of the perception process.
interpretation
In the organization phase, ________________ are learned social norms for how to behave in everyday contexts, as our textbook explained.
Scripts
According to the lecture video, a process of observing and regulating our attitudes and behaviors is _____________ and considering someone else's perspective as well as our own is _______________ .
monitoring, dual perspective
The lecture video talked about performance as contextually bound and stated how we alter our ____________ to appeal to our audience.
language choices