Definitions
Central claims & characteristics
College & Communication
Important Concepts
Lagniappe
100

This model guides how we define communication and was introduced in Chapter 1. 

What is the transactional model of communication?

100

There are many characteristics of the self, but this one recognizes that there are many parts or elements to seeing ourselves. We're more than just one label or category. 

What is multifaceted? 

100

When it comes to culture, SUNY Oswego has a number of _____, or scripted performances that are culturally significant, including torchlight and graduation. 

What are rituals? 

100

Part of perception, the process of ______ involves assigning meaning to what others do and includes meanings stemming from internal factors or reasons (like personality)

What is attribution?

100

Inside jokes, nicknames, specific words for something that only make sense in your relationship are examples of _______.

What are idioms?

200

Culture groups have ______ _______, which refer to expectations for expected, appropriate, and desirable communication behavior within the group

What are shared norms? 

200

Why is a table called a table? After all, the word itself doesn't look like a table. It doesn't have four legs and a flat surface. This choice recognizes that language, verbal communication, and our words are: 

What is arbitrary? 

200

College students are often experiencing transitions in identities, particularly in the relational layer of their identity, because they are part of what social group named in the end of Chapter 3?

Who are emerging adults (18-25 years old)? 

200

In identity, we acknowledge people have interpenetrating ______,including personal, enactment, relational, and communal.

What is layers of identity?

200

Perceiving physical or psychological closeness from the words and nonverbal communication someone uses with you is called __________.

What is immediacy?

300
This stage in the perception process recognizes that we are assigning meaning to information that we've selected and organized. 

What is interpretation? 

300

One central characteristic of communication is that it is _______, which means we can't take back what we've said and we can't recreate moments that have passed us by.

What is irreversible?

300

The concept of ______ happens at college when we have oversimplified beliefs about what teachers are like (or what professors are like) because they are part of a particular social group. 

What is stereotyping? 

300

Haptics, Kinesics, Proxemics, and Chronemics are all _____ of nonverbal communication.

What are channels? 

300

Maladaptive _______ occur when we make negative evaluations of a relationship as dissatisfying; this captures perceptual biases in our close relationships. 

What is/are attributions? 

400

Within semantic rules, this type of meaning recognizes the emotional, evaluative, or contextual interpretation of a word. 

What is connotative meaning? 

400

One characteristic of nonverbal communication is that it has __________, likely due to the analog code of nonverbal communication and common displays and gestures of certain things like facial expressions across the world.

What is potential for universal meaning? 

400

College students often have their own ___ ___, a system of symbols, rules, and assumptions used to accomplish communication, like how some students call the Convocation arena "the Deb" 

What are speech codes? 

400

Semantic, pragmatic, and syntactic _____ are central to understanding how we use verbal and spoken communication.

What are rules? 

400

When cultures share information with new members, this is called _____. 

What is socialization? 

500
Introduced in Chapter 7, ______ are fleeting feelings that arise in particular situations.

What are emotions?

500

Both our general claims and characteristics of language and communication have something in common, as we argue both are ________. 

What is consequential? 

500

Sometimes we use communication with the intentional, goal-directed guidance of learning, like you do when you come to class. This recognizes which characteristic of communication from Chapter 1?

What is "communication is consequential?" 

500

Different perceptions elicit different emotional responses, in a process called ______ introduced in Chapter 7.

What is appraisal / what are appraisals? 

500

Proposing, insulting, accusing, breaking up, and apologizing are all _____ _____.

What are speech acts?