Interpersonal
The highest level of Maslow’s hierarchy.
What is self-actualization?
The third Tuckman stage where cooperation develops and clear rules are established.
What is Norming?
The appeal that uses facts, evidence, and logic.
What is logos?
The means of communication designed to reach a wide audience, encompassing platforms like radio, newspapers, video games, and the Internet.
What is mass media?
A paired conversational structure among speakers -- for instance a question followed by an answer.
What is an adjacency pair?
Theory explaining how we reduce anxiety when meeting new people.
What is Uncertainty Reduction Theory?
A leadership style that inspires through vision rather than rewards.
What is transformational leadership?
A fallacy that misrepresents an opponent’s argument to attack it.
What is a Straw Man?
Cheap, accessible newspapers that became the first true mass medium.
What is the penny press?
Grice's conversational maxim requiring relevance.
What is Relation?
This theory explains relationship development through breadth and depth.
What is Social Penetration Theory?
This phenomenon occurs when group members seek harmony so much they stop evaluating options or offering critical feedback.
What is groupthink?
The part of the rhetorical situation that includes the time and place in which a text was created.
What is context?
The idea that media and society shape each other.
What is the mass media dynamic?
This conversational tool fixes misunderstandings as they occur?
What is Repair?
The relational theory that focuses on tensions like autonomy vs. connection.
What is Relationship Dialectics Theory?
According to Path-Goal Theory, this leadership behavior reduces anxiety for stressful tasks.
What is supportive leadership?
A fallacy that presents only the evidence supporting your claim.
What is stacking the deck?
The technology that facilitated the mass production and dissemination of the Bible, fueling literacy and the Protestant Reformation around the mid-1400s.
What is the Gutenberg Printing Press?
The term for responses that require justification or are socially awkward.
What are dispreferred responses?
The skill of recognizing your own and others’ emotions to guide communication.
What is emotional intelligence?
This individual role tries to focus attention on themselves instead of the task at hand, boasting about previous achievements.
What is a recognition-seeker?
Awareness of one's communicative behaviors and how to adapt them to a specific audience.
What is rhetorical sensitivity?
Lippmann’s description of how people understand the world through mental models.
What are the “pictures in our heads”?
The implicit logic that enables us to make sense of conversations and the belief that both participants are working with each other in a conversation.
What is the cooperative principle?