Communication Theory
Written, spoken, or unspoken elements of communication
What is a message?
The way you structure your understanding of reality, such as what is true and false
What are beliefs?
Stage in a relationship in which individuals make an intentional decision to minimize or eliminate further interaction
separation stage
A statement towards the end of the introduction that summarizes the argument of the speech
The act of conveying messages, ideas, and feelings through words.
What is verbal communication?
Anyone who encodes an idea or emotion
What is a source?
Learned predispositions to respond to a person, object, or idea in a favorable or unfavorable way
What are attitudes?
An approach to conflict that views the conflict as a problem to be solved
What is cooperative conflict management?
A statement found in the conclusion that asks the audience to do something.
What is a call to action?
Messages sent through any means except words.
What is nonverbal communication?
Anyone who decodes a signal to make sense of it.
What is a receiver?
Enduring concepts of good, bad, right, and wrong
What are values?
Voluntarily providing information about oneself
What is self-disclosure?
A statement at the very end of the introduction that explains what is to come in the rest of the speech
What is an initial preview statement?
An assumption of audience members' gender, age, race, culture, religion, sexual orientation, etc.
What is bias?
Response to a sender's message
What is feedback?
The idea that your expectations about yourself become true
What is self-fulfilling prophecy?
A relationship stage in which a couple engages in increased and deeper questioning after finding commonality
What is the intensification stage?
An organization format for persuasive speeches
What is Monroe's Motivated Sequence?
Interpreting words or unspoken symbols
What is decoding?
A term that describes a stage in which a person is aware of a weakness but isn't doing anything to change those weaknesses
What is conscious incompetence?
A theory of self-disclosure that measures awareness and self-disclosure in relationships with a model involving four squares
What is the Johari Window?
What are ethos, pathos, and logos?
The amount of space people feel is necessary between themselves and others
What is proxemics?