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| The ability to take part in effective communication that is characterized by skills and understandings that enable communicators to exchange messages successfully. |
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| the simultaneous sharing and creating of meaning through human symbolic interaction. |
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| Human symbolic interaction |
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| people using a symbol system (Language) to share thoughts, feelings, beliefs, attitudes, customs, and ideas. |
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Being a good communicator isn’t easy,
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| An individuals system of Moral Principles |
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| The use of another person’s information, language, or ideas without citing the originator and making it appear that the user is the originator. |
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- A process
- A system
- Both interactional and Transactional
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| Communication is a process because |
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| it involves a series of actions that has no beginning or end and is constantly changing. |
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| Communication involves variables that can never be duplicated |
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| Any communication transmitted by some kind of mechanistic means, such as radio, television, telephone, or the internet |
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| Communicating with or to a large number of people. |
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| Wide range of communication behaviors from which effective communicators make choices |
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| The process of selecting, organizing and interpreting information in order to give personal meaning to the communication we receive. |
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| Explains how our minds process and store simple to complex information. |
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| Something that incites or quickens action, feeling, or thought |
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| Sorting of one stimulus from another |
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| The deliberate choices we make to experience or avoid particular stimuli |
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| Focusing on specific stimuli while ignoring or downplaying other stimuli |
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| Processing, storing, and retrieving of information that we have already selected, organized, and interpreted. |
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| Categorizing of stimuli in our environment in order to make sense of them. |
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| Filing in of details so that a partially perceived entity appears to be complete. |
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| the grouping of two or more stimuli that are close to one another. |
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| The grouping of stimuli that resemble one another in size, shape, color, or other traits |
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| Assigning of meaning to stimuli |
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| A fixed previously determined view of events, objects, or people. |
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| The categorizing of events, objects, and people without regard to unique individual characteristics and qualities. |
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| the complex process through which we attempt to understand the reasons behind other’s behaviors |
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| Perceiving others as acting as they do because they are “That kind of person” Rather than because of any external factors that may have influenced their behavior |
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| learned behaviors that are communicated from one generation to another to promote individual and social survival. |
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| a person whose pride in his or her heritage or background leads to the conviction that he or she knows more and is better than those of other countries. |
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| Perceiving ones own culture as superior and having a very narrow or shortsighted view of cultures other than your own |
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| Taking on a broader worldview and opening our minds to different cultures as merely being different and not judging them as inferior because they are different. |
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| A social construct related to masculine and feminine behaviors that are learned. |
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| Personal-social identity continuum |
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- Two distinct ways that the self can be categorized
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- At a personal Level, which emphasizes the uniqueness of the individual
- And at the social identity level in which the self is thought of as a member of a group.
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| A persons perceived self, which consists of an organized collection of beliefs and attitudes about self. |
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| A person’s mental picture of himself or herself |
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| A persons feelings and attitudes toward himself or herself. |
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| A general, relatively long-lasting ideal that guides behavior |
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| An evaluative disposition, feeling, or position about one-self, others, events, ideas, or objects. |
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| A conviction or confidence in the truth of something that is not based on absolute proof. |
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| Communication Apprehension |
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| Anxiety associated with real or anticipated communication with another person or persons. |
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| self-fulfilling prophecy- |
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| Expectations we have of ourselves or that others have of us that help to create the conditions that lead us to act in predictable ways. |
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| Creating a positive image of oneself in order to influence the perceptions of others. |
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| A term that is used to describe the verbal and nonverbal ways we act to maintain our own presenting image and the images of others. |
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| Individualistic orientation- |
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| Tendency to stress self or personal goals and achievements over group goals and achievements |
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| Collectivistic orientation- |
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| Tendency to put aside your individual goals for the well-being of the group. |
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| the anatomical and physiological differences between males and females that are genetically determined. |
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| A structured system of signs, sounds, gestures, and marks that are used and understood to express ideas and feelings among people within a community, nation, geographic area, or cultural tradition. |
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| a theory suggesting that status and power are clearly linked and that women, ethnic minorities, and out-groups have little voice and people do not pay attention to them because they lack the power of appropriate language. |
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| the process of moving between the language of ones own culture and the language of the dominant culture to successfully operate in both. |
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| the ordinary kind of communicating people do in their lives. |
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| A symbol that stands for the object or concept that it names |
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| Words whose meanings cannot be understood by the ordinary usage |
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| Rules that govern how words are put together to form phrases and sentences. |
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| The study of meaning, or the association of words with ideas, feelings, and contexts. |
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| The objective meaning of a word, the standard dictionary definition |
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| the subjective meaning of a word- what a word suggests because of feelings or associations it evokes |
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| a symbol for a specific thing that can be pointed to or physically experienced |
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| the symbol for an idea, quality, or relationship. |
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| Language used by certain groups or specific disciplines that may be technical or too specialized to be understood by the general population |
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| Language used by groups to keep the meaning of the communication within the group. Slang words change frequently and are specific to specific regions or groups. |
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| the use of an inoffensive or mild expression in place of one that might offend, cause embarrassment, or suggest something unpleasant |
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| The deliberate misuse of language to distort meaning. |
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| A misunderstanding that occurs between a sender and a receiver because of the symbolic nature of language. |
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| The neglect of individual differences and overmphasis of similarities |
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| A technique to reduce indiscrimination by identifying the specific persons, ideas, events, or objects a statement refers to. |
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| a form of indexing that sorts people, events, ideas, and objects according to time. |
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| The tendency to view things in terms of extremes |
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| Escalating conflict between two individuals or groups that results from their use of polar terms to describe and defend their perceptions of reality. |
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| Gender- inclusive language |
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| Language that does not discriminate against males or females. |
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| Language that creates sexual stereotypes or implies that one gender is superior to another. |
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| A figure of speech in which a word or phrase relates one object or idea to another object or idea that are not commonly linked together. |
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| An explanation of how thought influences our reality and how our thought process is influenced by our language |
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| the theory that language determines thought |
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| The theory that suggests that people from different language communities perceive the world differently |
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| A culture in which the meaning of the communication act is inferred from the situation or location. |
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| a culture in which the meaning of the communication act is inferred from the messages being sent and not the location where the communication occurs. |
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| Active, direct, and fresh language that brings a sense of excitement, urgency, and forcefulness to a message. |
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| Identifies and projects the speakers feelings and makes the message more relevant to the listener. |
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