Chapter 1
Foundations of Communication
Foundations of Communication
A complex process though which we express, interpret, and coordinate messages with others.
Communication
The process of selectively attending and assigning meaning to information.
Perception.
The psychological disorientation and discomfort due to lack of familiarity when engaging in a new cultural situation. Is what?
Culture shock.
Messages involve the process of encoding, decoding & ______.
Feedback
A ________ concern is a preoccupation with imperfections in physical appearance.
Dysmorphic
________ switch is altering one’s linguistic and nonverbal patterns to conform to the dominant co-culture depending on the topic and participants involved.
Code.
Jenn was passing through airport security, and she realized after she was screened that she had taken off her shoes, taken her laptop and liquids out of her bag, and said “thank you” to the TSA officer without thinking about what she was doing or saying. What was Jenn following during her airport security screening experience?
A script
Hercules is not the term defined as a shortcut of thumb for understanding how to perceive something based on past experience with similar stimuli, but the term _________ is.
Heuristics.
In low-context-oriented cultures, people rely mainly on words to convey meaning. However, in high-context-oriented cultures, the speaker’s message is understood mainly based on what?
Context.
Communication context is made up of which five situations?
Physical, Social, Historical Psychological and Cultural Situations.
Sometimes, people deliberately present different aspects of their self-concept based on the situation and people involved. When a person makes this choice to present specific aspects of their self-concept, what are they engaging in?
Social construction of self.
When a person imagines themselves in another person’s cultural world, they are engaging in what mental state?
Intercultural empathy.
The seven characteristics of communication are used as the foundation of our communication skills. What are they?
Communication has Purpose, Communication is Continuous, Communication is Irreversible, Communication is Situated, Communication is Indexical, Communication Messages Vary in Conscious Thought, and Communication is Guided by Cultural Norms.
Some students in Jason’s dorm told him that his physics professor was incredibly difficult and strict. On the first day of class, when the professor explained that attendance was mandatory, Jason immediately thought that this professor was mean. Jason’s perception is a result of what?
Forced consistency.
Frances is sitting in her dorm room studying when her roommate comes in to share something exciting that happened to her earlier in the day. Frances responds, “I can’t talk now, it’s my study time.” Frances’s response represents what orientation to cultural context?
Monochronic.