Beginning of the semester phrases
Beginning of semester concepts
Risk Comms
Information disorders
Memory and cognition
100

Contest over resources

Politics

100

Gaps in information within an organization

Structural Hole

100

Risk is shaped by

people's perceptions

100

Required broadcasters to air diverse viewpoints and discuss controversial matters of public interest

What is the "Fairness Doctrine"

100

People mentally simulate and visualize what they hear or read, this mental simulation and visualization of communication can

Foster embodied cognition

200

The summation of all of our positive and negative beliefs

Attitudes

200

You will not be replaced by AI

You will be replaced by someone who knows how to use it

200

Affect

Emotional reaction

200

Misinformation 

Unintentional mistakes such as inaccurate captions, dates, statistics

200

People often judge an entire situation by how it ended

End-point bias

300
The community perishes when people put their own self-interests above the health of the community

Collective Action Problem

300

People overestimate how something will effect them

Impact Bias

300

Reason

Form your judgments using logic

300

Disinformation

Information that is fabricated deliberately 

300

"I want to help you relieve your pain" is

Compassion

400

Something out of place

Disgusting

400

The press doesn’t tell people what to think, but tells people what to think about

Agenda-setting

400

Uknown consequences

Threat

400

Malinformation 

Deliberate publication of private information for personal or other interests

400

Part of the brain that stores information

Memory Engrams

500

Reject info that threatens our identity and we accept info that affirms our identity

Identity Protective Cognition

500

When departments do not communicate with one another, what does this cause

Structural Hole

500

Known consequences

Fear

500

“26 words that created the internet,” this section of the 1996 Communication Decency Act protects tech companies because it stipulates that providers of internet forums would not be liable for user-posted speech

Section 230

500

Most persuasive tool

Narrative 

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