Comm Models & Perception
Source --> Transmitter --> Channel --> Receiver --> Destination
What is the linear model of communication.
The branch of non-verbal communication that looks at space (not outer space!) and how people have zones of private, personal, and public space around them.
What is proxemics?
The first step in the listening process.
What is mindfulness?
The imaginary window that contains information about our identity, with four sections parts: open, hidden, blind and unknown.
What is the Johari window?
The mass communication theory that suggests the important factor is "it is not what media does to people, but what people do with media."
What is uses and gratifications theory?
Selection --> Organization --> Interpretation
What is the perceptual process? (what is perception?)
Language that causes people to react defensively. Hint: _____-language, fill in the blank with a pronoun.
What is you-language
This step in the listening process is the same process that occurs in perception.
What is selection-organization-interpretation?
The dimension of culture (one of five) that suggests our identity varies along a continuum of group identity to individual identity.
What is individualism-collectivism?
The type of group communication that occurs when the group focuses on solving the problem for which they came together.
What is task communication?
The communication model which suggests that the purpose of communication is to create meaning
What is the transactional model of communication?
The branch of nonverbal communication that includes facial expressions, gestures, eye-contact, and posture.
What is kinesics?
Language that causes people to react defensively and makes judgments about people by using labels. For example, You are lazy.
What is evaluative language
As we are more receptive to the feedback and comments from others, this part of the Johari window will get smaller.
What is the blind pane of the Johari window?
Dr. Davies' favorite hockey team.
Who are the Edmonton Oilers?
The perceptual schemata that organizes information according to the most typical example of a category.
For instance, an apple is the most typical example of a fruit
What is a prototype?
Abstract
Arbitrary
Ambiguous
What are the three features of symbolic language?
This defensive style of language communicates "I have more power than you." For example, "I make the money so I make the decisions."
What is control-oriented language?
This tension exists in all relationships and represents the conflict between the need to have an individual identity and the desire to be close to others.
What is the autonomy - connection dialectic?
The three features of digital communication that allowed Donald Trump to be the primary driver of global disinformation about the coronavirus.
What are manipulation, convergence, and speed.
The tendency to attribute good things to our own actions, and bad things to forces beyond our control.
What is the self-serving bias? (also, the fundamental attribution error)
An example of this feature of language are homonyms like punch, bat, band, and spring
What is ambiguous language?
This positive communication style uses qualifying statements such as, "I think", "perhaps", etc.
For example, "I think that one way to solve the problem is by looking at the data."
Cultures that score high on this cultural dimension accept the idea that it is normal to have some groups in society with power and some groups with less power.
What is power distance?
The four features of organizational communication.
What are language, rites& rituals, stories, and structure?