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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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| Highly accessible technologies that facilitate communication, interaction, and connection with others. |
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| A group of individuals who are connected by friendship, family, common interests, beliefs, or knowledge |
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| An individual's 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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| series of actions that has no beginning or end and is constantly changing |
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| combination of parts interdependently acting to form a whole |
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| Exchange of communication in which the communicators act simultaneously, that is, encoding and decoding occur at the same time. |
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| Intentional Communication |
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| A message this is purposely sent to a specific receiver |
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| Unintentional Communication |
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| A message that is not intended to be sent or is not intended for the person who receives it |
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| the process by which the source translates thoughts or feelings into words, sounds, and physical expressions, which together make up the actual message that is to be sent |
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| The communication produced by the source |
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| Anything that changes the meaning of an intended message |
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| The means by which messages flow between sources and receivers |
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| The individual who analyzes and interprets the message |
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| The process of translating a message into the thoughts or feelings that were communicated |
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| the response to a message that the receiver sends to the source |
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| the psychological and physical surroundings in which communication occurs |
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| Circumstances or situation in which communication occurs |
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| Intrapersonal communication |
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| The process of understanding information within oneself |
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| Interpersonal communication |
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| The creating and sharing of meaning between people who are in a relationship |
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| An exchange of information between two people |
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| A carefully planned and executed question-and-answer session designed to exchange desired information between two parties |
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| Small-group Communication |
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| An exchange of information among a relatively small number of people, ideally five to seven, who share a common purpose, such as completing a task, solving a problem, making a decision, or sharing information |
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| Transmission of a message from one person who speaks to a number of individuals who listen |
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| occurs when professionals communicate with or to a large number of people via television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books, or movies |
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| Communication via social media |
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| Any communication transmitted through digital devices or platforms (iPhones, text messages, Facebook, Twitter, or Skype) |
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| Refers to the ability of a communication tool to facilitate social interaction between two groups or individuals |
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| Refers to the time it takes to send and receive messages |
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| Channels of communication that allow participants to simultaneously serve as sender and receiver |
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| Channels of communication that allow participants to take turns serving as sender and receiver |
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| the verbal and nonverbal features of a message that offer more information about the context, the meaning, and the identities of the involved parties |
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| When communication occurs in an environment that makes it easy to record and redistribute past messages |
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| A phrase to describe a message that reaches enormous audiences by "infecting" viewers and users with the message |
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| A wide range of communication behaviors from which effective communicators make choices |
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| The process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting information to give personal meaning to the communication we receive |
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| Sorting of one stimulus from another |
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| The deliberate choices we make to experience or to avoid particular stimuli |
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| Focusing on one specific message while ignoring or downplaying another stimuli |
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| Processing, storing, and retrieving or information that we have already selected, organized, and interpreted |
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| A measure of our ability to process and store simple to complicated information |
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| Filling 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 a 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 giving regard to unique individual characteristics and qualities |
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| the complex process through which we attempt to understand the reasons behind others' behaviors |
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| Fundamental attribution error |
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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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| Set of interpretations about beliefs, values, norms, and social practices, which affect behaviors of a relatively large group of people |
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| A learned belief that your own culture is superior to all others |
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| perceiving one's 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, rather than judging them bas inferior because they are different |
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| a socially constructed concept related to masculine and feminine behaviors that are learned |
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| a person's perceived self, which consists of an organized collection of beliefs and attitudes about self |
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| A person's mental picture of their self |
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| A person's attitudes and feelings towards themselves. |
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| Long lasting ideas that guide our behavior |
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| AN evaluative feeling or way of thinking about oneself, others, events, ideas, or objects |
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| a conviction or confidence in the truth of something that is not based on something that is absolute proof |
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| personal-social identity continuum |
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| The two ways the self can be categorized: at a personal level, in which the uniqueness of the individual is emphasized; and at the social identity level, in which the self is thought of as a member of a group |
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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 individual goals for the wellbeing of the group |
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| the anatomical and physiological differences between males and females that are genetically determined |
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| having both male and female traits |
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| Expectations that we have of ourself or others or that others have of us to create the conditions that lead us to act in predictable ways |
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| Creating a positive image of oneself 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 |
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| a structured system of signs, sounds, gestures, or marks that is used and understood to express ideas and feelings among people within a community, nation, geographic area, or cultural tradition |
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| suggests that under-represented groups are not as free or as able to say what they mean, when and where they wish |
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| a term that identifies when people from co-cultures speak the language of their own culture but switch to that of the dominant culture when needed and appropriate |
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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 according to 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 feelings, ideas, and contexts |
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| the objective meaning of a word; the dictionary definition |
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| the subjective meaning of a word; what the 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 experienced |
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