Symbolic Interactionism
Elaboration Likelihood Model
Coordinated Management of Meaning
Relational Dialectics
Grab Bag
100
The mental self-image that results from taking the role of the other; the objective self; me.
What is the looking-glass self?
100
The theorists credited by your text with developing the elaboration likelihood model.
Who are Richard Petty & John Cacioppo?
100
The theorists credited with developing the Coordinated Management of Meaning theory.
Who are W. Barnett Pearce and Vernon Cronen?
100
The theorists credited by your text with developing relational dialectics.
Who are Leslie Baxter & Barbara Montgomery?
100

"You owe me" is a peripheral route cue that utilizes a specific strategy of influence. 

What is reciprocation? 

200
The process of mentally imagining that you are someone else who is viewing you.
What is taking the role of the other?
200
The extent to which a person carefully thinks about issue-relevant arguments contained in persuasive communication.
What is message elaboration?
200
An ongoing focus on how communication makes our social worlds.
What is the communication perspective?
200
A dynamic knot of contradictions in personal relationships; an unceasing interplay between opposing or contrary tendencies?
What is relational dialectics?
200

According to social penetration theory, we compare the _____________ to _____________ to gauge relational satisfaction.

What are comparison level and outcomes?

300
An inner dialogue used to test alternatives, rehearse actions, and anticipate reactions before responding: self-talk.
What is minding?
300
The desire for cognitive clarity; an enjoyment of thinking through ideas even when they aren't personally relevant.
What is need for cognition?
300
Picturing communication as a transfer of meaning by a source sending a message through a channel to a receiver.
What is the transmission model (of communication)?
300

Ongoing tensions played out within a relationship.

What are internal dialectics?

300

The assumption that given two plausible explanations for the same event, we should accept the simpler version

What is the rule of parsimony (Occam's razor)?

400
The composite mental image a person has of his or her self based on societal expectations and responses.
What is the generalized other?
400
Claims that generate favorable thoughts when examined.
What are strong arguments?
400
People collaborating in an attempt to bring into being their vision of what is necessary, noble, and good, and to preclude the enactment of what they fear, hate, and despise.
What is coordination?
400
Ongoing tensions between a couple and their community.
What are external dialectics?
400

Attitude change in the opposite direction of what the message advocates; listeners driven away from rather than drawn to an idea.

What is the boomerang effect?

500
The theorist credited by your textbook with developing symbolic interactionism.
Who is George Herbert Mead?
500
Audience perception of the message source's expertise, character, and dynamism; typically a peripheral cue.
What is speaker credibility?
500
The presence or awareness of what participants are making in the midst of their own conversation.
What is mindfulness?
500

An approach to communication that believes that it creates, sustains, and alters relationships and the social world.

What is constitutive approach?

500
The study of the origin, nature, method, and limits of knowledge.
What is epistemology?