Intro to Human Communication & Communicating Identities (Ch. 1 & 2)
Communicating, Perception, & Understanding (Ch. 3) + Intercultural Bonus Questions (400 and 500)
Verbal & Nonverbal Communication
(Ch. 4 & 5)
Conversational Interaction & Listening/Responding (Ch. 6 & 7)
Intercultural Communication & Mass Media and Communication (Ch. 8 & 13)
100

A transactional process which people generate meaning through the exchange of verbal/nonverbal cues. Referred to as a building block of communication.

Message

100

Cognitive representation and categorization are types of this.

organization

100

"Lexical choice" is another term for this kind of language.

Vocabulary

100

When we behave more formally at a wedding than we do at a birthday party, we are responding to THIS element of contextual awareness.

Social situation

100

A feeling of disorientation and discomfort due to the unfamiliarity of surroundings and the lack of familiar cues to an environment. 

Culture shock

200

The belief that moral behavior varies among individuals, groups, and cultures across situations. In other words, nothing is absolute.

Relativism

200

A sense-making process in which we attempt to understand our environment so we can respond to it appropriately.

Perception

200

This theory is a branch of pragmatics that suggests when people communicate, they do not just say things, they do things with their words.

Speech Act Theory

200

The process of receiving, constructing meaning from, and responding to spoken and/or nonverbal messages.

Listening

200

This effect refers to the influence that media has on people's every day lives.

Mass Media effects

300

The fairly stable perception we have of ourselves.

Self-concept
300
The tendency to give oneself more credit than is due when good things happen, and to accept too little responsibility for those things that go wrong.

Self-serving bias

300

The use of language to express oneself artistically or creatively

Imaginative language

300

The act of using conversational style to attribute specific characteristics to a particular group. 

For example, assumptions that a British person is smarter than an American person because of how they sound.

Linguistic Profiling

300

The idea that people use media messages and find various types of gratifications in some media texts rather than others.

Uses and Gratifcations

400

Racial identity develops in response to this kind of force.

Social or societal force

400

The tendency to view one group's standards against which all groups are judged.

Ethnocentricism
400

Communicative functions associated with the sense of smell.

Olfactics

400

Listening style that reflects an interest in listening as simply a transaction, focused on the substance, the point of message

Task oriented listening

400

This approach recognizes that things are not perceived as "either/or" but instead "both/and"

Dialectical Approach

500

According to the Synergetic Model, THESE are the four factors that influence communication.

1. Individual forces

2. Societal forces

3. Culture

4. Context

500

Yoon lives in the US, but her mom is from North Korea and her dad is from Taiwan. This makes Yoon THIS kind of border dweller.

border dweller through socialization

500

This nonverbal behavior is associated with respectful listening in Western social contexts.

Eye Contact

500

Choosing what you will listen to, as well as how you will respond, is based in THIS decision with respect to listening.

Ethics

500
The idea that people seek messages or interpret media texts in ways that confirm their beliefs is known this.

Selective Exposure