the status of having lost a family member, friend, colleague, or other significant person through death
Bereavement
what is encoding?
Encoding is the process a communicator uses to translate thoughts and concepts into a message form that can be shared with others
if a person smiles faster than a half second and has dead eyes they aren't doing a ____ smile.
Duchenne
what is monologuing, and why is it worse that dialogue
monologuing is when you speak at someone, for a long duration of time, not recieving input from them, whereas dialogue is about reciprocal communication.
what is a contact/non contact culture?
Contact cultures maintain close distances and touch often whereas non-contact keep distance and dont touch in public
the expression of sorrow of loss and grief in a manner understood and approved by the culture, meaning it is a culturally patterned expression
Mourning
What is the term for the medium through which messages pass in the communication model?
what is disconfirmation?
this pattern ignores a person's presence and communications entirely, which is explicitly differentiated from rejection (acknowledgment but unwillingness to accept what is said).
each person is both speaker and listener is what model of communication?
transactional
mean what you say, say what you mean is an idiom from what type of culture?
low context
what is the study of temporal communication?
chronemics
what are the three types of communication?
interpersonal, small group, and public
what is an illustrator?
body gestures of the face and hands that communicate emotional meaning
a non verbal message that adds nuances of meaning to a verbal message
what is complementing a message
giving directions based on ones egocentric orientation to the destination vs giving directions based off of the land( head northeasterly then turn south) is a characteristic of which type of culture? Also what group would you talk like this to avoid confusion. this question is worth double
individualistic culture(focused on self not the community). People with disabilities
what should be avoided when giving a death notification?
euphemisms( they passed away, they are no longer with us, in heaven etc.)
what is the spiral of silence theory?
People are more likely to voice agreement than disagreement with a perceived majority opinion. This tendency causes the majority opinion to become stronger, while the minority opinion concurrently becomes weaker, resulting in an ever-widening spiral
what is civil inattention?
a polite way of avoiding eye contact, respecting another persons privacy
what is masking?
expressing happiness when you are actually disappointed
the nail that sticks up gets pounded down, is an idiom from what type of culture?
collectivist
there are 7 kinds of grief, name 3 and what the characteristics are?
1. Normal: Grief is viewed as a human experience 2. Complicated: Grief that does not move from shock and pain 3. Traumatic: A severe and disabling response 4. Anticipatory: Grieving that occurs before the loss actually happens 5. Resolved: Recovering or entering a "new normal" 6. Unresolved: Not recovering or entering a "new normal" 7. Hidden/Disenfranchised: Sorrow that is hidden or denied the right to grieve
what are the four dimensions of context?
physical, psychological, cultural, and temporal
what is the study of touch in communication?
Haptics
a non verbal message like a wink that challenges the verbal messages meaning
in this aspect of culture teachers are called by name and spoken with as an equal
lower power distance