General Communication Terms
Theories
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Mixed Bag
100

An explanation for a phenomenon based on observations and/or existing theories and not laws

What is a theory

100

The belief that the world is far more dangerous than it actually is.

What is mean world syndrome?

100
Symbolic Interactionism and Cognitive Dissonance are 2 examples of _________ communication.
What is INTRApersonal?
100

Ray gets off work at Home Depot and decides to go to Subway for a late lunch. Tired, he walks in the restaurant and a hostess named Myra greets him. She gets one inch from his face and says welcome to Subway. What theory would explain the intimate zone being infringed on?

What is Expectancy Violation Theory?

100
UCSB's reserch university status 

What is an R1

200
Dr. Martin is conducting a study of communication between doctors and patients at a small hospital in a rural town in Northern California. Dr. Martin wants to know the exact number of times that doctors give diagnosis to patients and the number of times nurses give diagnosis to patients in this particular hospital.Thus, which type of research approach is Dr. Martin likely to use?
What is Empirical? He's counting. Therefore, it's data driven.
200

An example of this is theory of motivated mangement developed from uncertainty reduction theory.

What is Extension

200
Uncertainty is _______ in everyday life
What is common?
200
On the first day of section, a chipper young lad comes up to me and says "Here you go!" and hands me an apple. "Boy I can't wait to learn from you. I have heard such great things. Only glowing reviews about how well you run section. I will sit in the front row and make sure to jot down every drop of verbal gold that comes out of your wise mouth." Now although nothing but compliments were given to me, and it seem like he is being accommodative of me as an authority figure, what is really happening?
What is overaccommodation?
200

The three jobs most graduate studnets have

What is reserach, teaching and being a student/taking classes 

300
Dr. Martin is conducting a study of communication between doctors and patients at a small hospital in a rural town in Northern California. Dr. Martin wants to understand how (positively/neg/neutral/enthusiastic) doctors are communicating with patients order to implement new policy. Thus, which type of research approach is Dr. Martin likely to use?
What is Critical?
300

One common critique of studies of this theory is that they often measure behavioral intention rather than behavior 

What is theory of planned behavior?

300
What are the four proxemic zones in Expectancy Violations Theory?
What is intimate, personal, social, and public?
300
What theory would explain why... People would first join a cult then decide that the cult is correct about the idea that the "world is going to end," and then prep for the "ending" by giving up their past lives and then when they nothing happens on their big night....they say well it must be because we just saved the world!
What is Cognitive Dissonance?
300

The place where can I find the syllabus for this course. 

What is Canvas 

400

This theory evaluation criteria looks at if the theory offers the most simple explanation possible for the phenomenon.

What is parsimony?

400
True or False? Divergence is when an individual adapts speech patterns that are similar to the other speaker.
What is FALSE? (That's CONVERGENCE.)
400
Conformity in groups (at least for the Asch experiment) dropped from 75% to ___% when even one person gave the correct answer?
What is 5%?
400

An individual's sense of the strength of opposing sides of an issue

 

What is Quasi-statistical sense?

400

The GPA required to get into the COMM major at UCSB

What is a 3.00? 

500

This research method allows scientists to prove causation 

What is an experiment?

500
Information is, in a sense, like property. It is _____ and can be transferred via _____ . (The concept above is discussed in what theory?)
What is owned and communication? (Privacy Management Theory)
500

This theory has often been criticized for not being testable.

What is uses and gratifications theory 

500
Boundaries are not coordinated as well as they should be to maintain the level of privacy or exposure desired by owners – this leads to problems known as _________? BTW what theory is this in?
What is Boundary Turbulence and Privacy Management Theory?
500

This well-known character, talked about by Allison in lecture, recently talked about cognitive dissonance in a certain movie. 

Who is Barbie?

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