A First Look at Communication
A systemic process in which people interact with and through symbols to create and interpret meanings
What is Communication?
These are the three "proofs" by which Aristotle theorized persuasion takes place.
What are Ethos, Pathos, and Logos?
This is an active, three-part interrelated process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting people, objects, events, situations, and activities
What is perception?
These are arbitrary, ambiguous, and abstract representations of phenomena.
What are symbols?
This includes all forms of communication other than words themselves; includes inflection and other vocal qualities as well as several other behaviors such as shrugs, blushing, and eye movements.
What is nonverbal communication?
This is a group of interrelated elements that affect on another.
What is a system?
This individual championed the concept of "liberal education" and "progressive thought"?
Who was John Dewey?
These are the three interrelated processes involved in perception.
What are selection, organization, and interpretation?
One example of this feature of language is the use of "cap/no cap" to refer to lie/truth.
What is arbitrariness?
Two rules that govern non/verbal communication, telling us "what certain behaviors count as" and "when/where certain behaviors are appropriate"
What are regulative and constitutive rules?
This level of meaning expresses the relationship between communicators.
What is the relationship level of meaning?
This form of communications research often relies on interpretive techniques, including textual analysis and ethnography, used to understand the character of experience, particularly how people perceive and make sense of communication
What is qualitative research?
These are mental structures that people use to organize and interpret experience.
What are cognitive schemata?
These types of facts are the meanings that we assign to brute facts and are based on human interpretation.
What are institutional facts?
These are three (out of 5) examples of how nonverbal behaviors interact with verbal communication.
May repeat messages
May highlight verbal communication
May complement or add to words
May contradict verbal messages
May substitute for verbal behaviors
These models assume that communication is transmitted in a straightforward manner from a sender to a receiver.
What are linear or transmission models?
To study phenomena in multiple ways by relying on multiple sources of data, theories, researchers, and/or methodological approaches.
What is triangulation?
This is the ability to perceive another as a unique and distinct individual apart from social roles and generalizations
What is person-centeredness?
This symbolic ability of language allows us to think about experiences and ideas that do not exist or are not immediately present to the senses
What is hypothetical thought?
An example of this nonverbal behavior is wearing an American flag pin on your backpack.
What is an artifact?
This model incorporates changes over time due to what happens between people.
What is the transactional model of communication?
These are four out of eight primary areas into which the modern discipline of communication can be classified.
What are intrapersonal communication, interpersonal communication, group and team communication, public communication, organizational communication, mass media, computer-mediated communication, intercultural communication?
These are the four dimensions of attributions.
What are locus, stability, specificity, and control?
These are the three levels of relationship-level meaning in verbal and nonverbal communication.
What are responsiveness, liking, and power?
A CEO sits behind a large desk in a comfortable chair in front of a life-sized portrait of himself. The chair facing the desk is small and uncomfortable to make whoever sits there feel ill at ease. This is an example of which nonverbal behavior?
What is "environmental factors"?