MISC
These are communication behaviors that are habitual patterns that we deploy often to avoid the mental energy of addressing individual communication situations.
What are scripts?
When a person is part of a co-culture, they are part of this.
This is a type of language which involves specialized vocabularies shared by people with a common background.
What is jargon?
Draw the ladder of abstraction, labelling the top and bottom.
The ladder should be marked with abstract at the top and concrete at the bottom.
This is a poor listening behavior where a listener physically displays all the signs of listening but is not actually engaged in listening.
What is pseudo listening?
This is the version of yourself that you truly believe yourself to be.
What is the perceived self?
This type of culture tends have an easier time perspective-taking.
What is a collectivistic culture?
This is a conclusion drawn from the interpretation of evidence.
What is an inference?
Draw a representation of a small departure.
A small departure gets off topic but ultimately returns to the center conversation
These are the four stages of listening.
What are attending, understanding, responding, and remembering?
These are the three steps of perception.
What are select, organize, and interpret?
This is a term for interaction between co-cultural groups.
What is intergroup communication?
This is the study of space in communication.
What is proxemics?
Draw the relationship between cultures and cocultures.
Cocultures occur within a single culture, so your drawing must show cocultures INSIDE a culture.
This is the average rate of speech a person listening can understand.
What is 600 words a minute?
This is a term describing how we develop an image of ourselves based on the information others give us.
What is reflected appraisal?
This type of culture relies on subtle nonverbal cues to maintain social harmony.
What is a high-context culture?
This is an indirect term substituted to avoid saying a less pleasant one.
What is a euphemism?
Draw the linear model of communication, labelling all parts.
Sender, Message, Channel, Receiver, Noise
This type of listening is characterized by the effort to assess the quality of information.
What is critical listening?
This is the culmination of the consistent characteristics int he way you think and behave across situations.
What is a personality?
These are two of the five practices of intercultural competence.
What are increased contact, tolerance for ambiguity, open-mindedness, knowledge and skill, and/or patience and perseverance.
These are small errors in the flow of speech that can send messages to listeners.
What are disfluencies?
Draw a representation of the difference between verbal and nonverbal communication (beyond verbal/nonverbal).
I will accept any images that show dimensionality (one versus many), continuity (intermittent versus constant), ambiguity (less versus more), or deliberateness (purposeful versus both purposeful and unintentional).
This is the effect our personal concerns have on our ability to listen.
What is psychological noise?