Model THIS!
Me, Myself and I (Perception and Bias)
Verbals, Nonverbals, and Listening, oh my!
Communication
Across Contexts
Across Contexts
Mystery Questions
50
Of the 5 components of the linear model of communication, this one can be described as the most disruptive.
What is Noise?
50
When rushing through a busy airport, it may be important to use this when searching for your gate number; filtering out other stimuli in your environment that does not fulfill your immediate need of getting to your flight on time.
What is selective attention?
50
While we tend to demand this in professional and educational settings, this is not actually necessary to make meaning out of verbal codes. Toddlers don't have a good grasp on this, and they still manage to communicate.
What is grammar?
50
Insurance companies engage in a lot of this type of organizational communication, which involves speaking to many different people and organizations that are external to their organization.
What is boundary spanning?
50
This 4-word phrase is the goal of communication.
Hint: (1+1+?) cr-8 common this of life = 42
What is "to create shared meaning"?
100
This model emphasizes that individuals are both senders and receivers by adding feedback to the linear model of communication.
What is the Interactional Model of Communication?
100
We may sometimes engage in this type of bias, which may lead us to create one-size-fits-all messages that assume that the same message will work for everyone.
What is simplicity bias?
100
Responding to your friend's "ETA?" text with, "be there soon!" might be a form of this - especially if you're running late and haven't left your house yet.
What is strategic ambiguity?
100
This health campaign utilized complex data on the relationship between gender and willingness to seek medical care and turned it into easy to understand knowledge to prevent negative gender-related health outcomes, in a process called this.
What are informatics?
100
This dimension of national culture gets to the long and short of it when it comes to the future.
What is long term and short term orientation?
200
A door-to-door salesman attempts to sell solar to a man living in a rural area. He knocks on the door, and says his opening line, "Are you tired of Big Fossil Fuel ruining our beautiful blue skies?" The man, the son of coal miner and a coal miner himself scoffs and closes the door on the salesman. This type of noise interrupted the message sent by the door-to-door salesman to the coal miner.
What is Semantic Noise?
200
Private diaries used to be one means of developing this, but the rise of social media has created a new platform that simultaneously allows us to connect with others.
What is a sense of self?
200
The words "pop", "soda", "coke" and "soda-pop" all representing the same thing emphasizes this important aspect of words.
What is that they are arbitrary?
200
A company adopts a new rule for all employees that bathroom breaks longer than 10 minutes will now be considered unpaid breaks. The justification for this rule is lower productivity resulting from a lack of active employees on the floor at any one time. This policy is an extreme example of organizations exerting this, which ensures that everyone in the organization stays committed to the organization's goals.
What is control?
200
Compulsively communicating preventing messages from others.
What is Talkaholism?
300
This model of communication emphasizes the reciprocal giving and receiving of messages, which can also be pictured by two people playing catch.
What is the Transactional Model of Communication?
300
Nancy has a best friend that threatens this type of face; she's always pressuring Nancy to stay out late, party, and do things she wouldn't normally do. To maintain this type of face Nancy would need to tell her friend no, and her friend would need to cooperate by respecting her decision and offering to hang out at a time that's better for Nancy.
What is negative face?
300
This "listening culture" (a culture that emphasizes deference and patience during conversation) is also the most highly populated country in the world.
What is China?
300
Agenda-Setting Theory argues that powerful people suppress and sustain stories using the concepts of gatekeeping, surveillance, and this, the idea that the media directs the public's and policymaker's attention to the same things at the same time.
What is Correlation?
300
We passively absorb the practices and rituals of our culture without being directly taught in this process. Hint: En-ation surrounds a word in this clue to get the answer.
What is enculturation?
400
A job interview perfectly exemplifies that all communication is this. While the interviewers asks questions, the interviewee nods, smiles, and sends other forms of feedback. When the interviewee answers questions, the interviewer sends nonverbal cues, and shapes their follow up questions around the interviewee's responses.
What is transactional?
400
According to Attribution Theory, internal attribution would be high in this, and low in this.
What is high in consistency, and low in consensus and distinctiveness?
400
Willaume & Body (2007) conducted research that found that feminine personalities were more likely to use this type of listening style, where as masculine personalities were more likely to use these two styles.
What is people-centered listening, and action- and content-centered listening.
400
We rely on these two things in interpersonal communication to interpret or assign meaning to our perceptions; how long we have known that person, and the mental frameworks we use to organize relationship behaviors.
What are relational history and relational schema?
400
"I’ve thought about this a lot. If we’re together this is what’s going to happen. I’m going to keep pursuing what I’m pursuing, and it’s going to take up more and more of my time. You’re going to see me less and less. When you do, I’ll be distracted, I’ll be upset, I’ll be playing things in my mind. And you’re going to just grow to resent me. At a certain point, you’ll tell me to ease up on the drumming, to spend more time with you. And I won’t be able to. And I’ll start to resent you for even asking me that. I’ll feel like you’re dragging me down, you’ll feel like you don’t matter -- and before long, we’ll hate each other. So I think we should just cut it off now, cleanly, for those reasons." In this monologue, Andrew is prematurely terminating the relationship to avoid what stage in the process of relational breakdown?
What is the differentiating stage?
500
Using the linear model of communication to describe this event might sound like this:
Channel: loud speakers
Receiver(s): large audience
Sender(s): a musician
Message: "You can stay under my umbrella-ella-ella-aye-aye-aye"
Noise: cheering, screaming, amateur singing
What is a Rihanna concert?
500
One way that perception differs culturally is time. The U.S is considered this type of culture, which values time commitments and doing one thing at a time.
What is a monochronic culture?
500
This profession requires a great working memory to be successful. It's also useful to have this person around when you're sightseeing in another country or visiting a historical place.
What is a tour guide?
500
The history of mass media begins with the invention of this.
What is the printing press?
500
Due to a larger vocabulary, Russian speakers can see blue as more distinct through distinctions between light blue and dark blue. A German speaker wouldn't see the distinction for light blue or dark blue at all because the language does not have separate words for the colors that fall into the first category of "light blue" or the second category of "dark blue." This distinction links these 3 aspects of communication, 2 of which appear in the Jeopardy categories.
What is culture, perception, and verbals?