Symbolic Interaction

John is deabating whether or not he should talk to his boss about getting a raise.  He thinks to himself that perhaps his boss might fire him if he does decide to ask.  What part of thought is John using?

Looking-Glass Self

Symbolic Interation

_______ is the source of ________

Symbolic Interation

In the "self" the "I", of George Mead's theory of Symbolic Interactionism, is what one sees when they take the role of another or mentally imagining that they are someone else who is viewing you.

False

Coordinated Management of Meaning 

In coordinated management of meaning the serpentine model allows for isolated speech.

Coordinated Management of Meaning

The four contexts of Coordinated Management of Meanin's Hierarchy of Meaning are.

Coordinated Management of Meaning

Max attributes his lack of date to a bad dating scene when really he just smells bad.  Max's point of view that there is a bad dating scene is an example of...

Story Told

Expectancy Violations 

Which of these is NOT part of EVT?

Expectancy

Violations

Proxemics

Proxemics

Expectancy Violations 

Americans have 3 proxemic zones 

T or F

False  we have 4

Intimate 0-18, Personal 18-4ft, Social 4-10ft, Public 10-

Expectancy Violations

How we interact is based off of RED which stands for Requirements, Expectancy and Desire

T or F

True,  Requirements what we need to survive, Expectancies are what we expect to happen, and Desire is what we want to happen

Constructivism

Constructivism offers a cognitive explanation for communication competence.

T or F

True

Constructivism

The Role Category Questionnaire is used to measure what?

Cognitive

Constructivism

The benefits of person-centered messages included all of the following except?

A.)The proper formation of social support messages

B.)Helps with relationship maintenance

C.)Aids in message production

D.)Organizational effectiveness

B.) Cognitive Complexity

Constructivism

The benefits of person-centered messages include all of the following except.

A.) The proper formation of social support-messages

B.) Helps with relationship maintenance

C.) Aids in Message Productions

D.) Organizational Effectiveness

C.) Aids in message production 

Social Penetration Theory

Petronio claims that boundaries are personally created, often shifting, and frequently permeable

T or F

True

Social Penatration Theory

Outcome is defined as the threshold above which an interpersonal outcome seems attractive; a standard for relational satisfaction.

T or F

False

Social Penetration Theory

What does the book call the inner core of the onion?

A.) Deeply Held Beliefs

B.) Religious convictions

C.) Concept of Self

D.) Biographical Data

C.) Concept of Self

Uncertainty Reduction Theory

According to the uncertainty reduction theory,________ strategy is impression forming through face to face discussion with a person.

A.) Passive Strategy

B.) Interactive Strategy

C.) Active Strategy

D.) Hedging Strategy 

B.) Interactive Strategy

Uncertainty Reduction Theory

One critique of the Uncertainty reduction theory comes from Michael Sunnafrank of the U of Minnesota. He challenges Berger's claim that the URT is the key to understanding early encounters. Instead he insists that ________

The early course of a relationship is guided by it's predicted outcome value.

Uncertainty Reduction Theory

The goal of the URT is to predict people's future interactions which is drawn from shannon and weavers prediction theory and to explain how we draw inferences about people based on the attribution theory

T or F

False

Social Information Processing

In relation to the developement of intimacy through online communicatin, the amount of social information conveyed is more important than the rate at which information is conveyed.

T or F

True

Social Information Processing

What is the term used to identify CMC relationships that are more intimate than romances or friendships that develop when partners are phycically together?

Hyperpersonal perspective

Relational Dialectics

Interaction View

The interactional view focuses on not why a person acts a certain way, but how behavior affects the group

T or F

True

Interactional View

Symptom strategy is a component of what axiom?

One cannot not communicate

Interactional View

What of the following situations is an example of symmetrical relationship?

Roommates splitting the rent and bills evenly

Social Judgement Theory

Critics of SJT believe that he should NOT label the SJT as objective because he cannot predict perceptions of people.

T or F

Social Judgment Theory

Assimilation and contrast are two perceptual errors people judge message within the SJT

T or F

Social Judgment Theory

If a woman having Christian faith and believing in life at conception went to an anti-abortion rally, her ego-involvement would be placed high on the issue of pro-life in which latitude?

Latitude of acceptance

Cognitive Dissonance

One of the major critiques in Leon Festinger's Cognitive Dissonance Theory is?

It is not falsifiable, cannot be proven wrong

Cognitive Dissonance

A person will likely feel post-decision dissonance

After buying a house

Cognitive Dissonance

What is the distressing mental state caused by incosistency between a person's two belief's or belief and an action?

Cognitive Dissonance Theory

Functional Perspective on Group Descision Making

How many requisite functions are listed under the functional perspective theory?

Four

Functional Perspective on Group Decision Making

Problem Analysis is the most important requisite function

T or F

False

Functional Perspective on Group Decision Making

Which of the following functions has not been suggested that it  is added to the theory?

Institutional Function

Cultural Approach

According to cultural approach to comm culture is something an organization HAS rather than something an organization IS

T or F

False

Cultural Approach

Ethnography is

Observing how comm is used

Observing how people act

A form of thick description

All of the above  ANSWER

Adaptive Structuration

This type of story carries out the ideology of management and reinforces company policy.

Corporate

Critical Theory

You are a star basketball player, and your coach decides to pull you from the game during the closing minutes. Obviously you don't agree with the move, and when you ask the coach he says, Because I said so.  What is this an example of?

 Managerialism

Critical Theory

Danny works at McDonalds and is excited for the weekend. Right before his shift ends on friday, his boss comes up to him and says.  "Danny, it would be awesome if you could come in and work tomorrow." Danny eventually comes into work on Saturday, even though his boss never offically asked.  This is an example of?

Consent

Critical Theory

A boss decides to ask his employees what type of reward they want for a job well done.  The employee are estatic they actually have the freedom to choose, but in reality the boss decided to limit the employee choices to a select few items. This restricting their freedom.  Example of what?

Systematically distorted Communication

Dramatism

What theory did Kenneth Burke write about?

Dramatism

Dramatism

Which of the following is not something Dramatism focuses on?

Guilt-redemtion cycle; people feel guilty when they cannot persuade others to act in a negative manner.

Dramatism

The components of the dramatic pentad are similar to the questions a reporter asks.  What are the components of the dramatic Pentad?

Act, scene, agent, agency, and purpose

Narrative Paradigm

One form of communication people us to maintain relationships with others. This usually consists of jokes or phrases such as Hi, how are you?  Type of comm?

Phatic Communication

Narrative Paradigm

Walter Fisher had two paradigms which he came up with. The first one was a more scientific approach to knowledge then the other, assumes descions make on evidence and arguments.  This is?

Rational- World Paradigm

Narrative Paradigm

We know a story has narrative fidelity if the story hangs together and if we believe the characters act in a reliable manner.

T or F

False

Media Ecology

What is the major quote that describes the Media Ecology Theory?

The medium is the message

Media Ecology

Did Marshal McLuhan write about all five ages of media in human history?

T or F

False, he wrote 4.  

Media Ecology

Postman used the idea of a Faustian bargain to describe media's impact on the public, what is faustian bargain?

A deal with the devil

Semiotics

The Swiss linguist who coined the term Semiology and influenced Barthes was?

Ferdinand de Saussure

Semiotics

The _______ is the physical form of the sign whereas the ________ is the meaning we associate with the sign.

Signifier and Signified

Semiotics

A _______ sign system is a mythical sign that has lost its original roots and has evolved into a cultural ideology.

Connotative

Cultivation Theory

Which of the following did Gerbner NOT hope to find when completing the Cultural Indicators Project?

Ratio of TV shows that had verbal threats

Cultivation Theory

What percentage of television shows contain violence or threats of violence?

Over half

Cultivation Theory

When marginalized people in television are shown simultaneously underrepresented and over victimized, it is known as a symbolic double jeopardy.

T or F

True

Agenda Setting Theory

The cause and effect relationship between the medias agenda and the public's agenda must be delayed to qualify as agenda- setting

T or F

True

Agenda Setting Theory

Who sets the agenda for agenda setters?

Gate Keepers, Political candiates, PR professionals

Agenda Setting Theory

Framing is a controversial part of the agenda-setting theory.

T or F

True

Spiral of Silence

Critics of Elizabeth Noelle-Neumann's theory do not believe that media plays a role in the Spiral of silence.

T or F

False

Spiral of Silence

The quasi- statistical organ refer to the feeling one gets when they believe their opinion is of the minority.

T or F

False

Spiral of Silence

_______ occurs when people have the mistaken idea that everyone think like they do.

Pluralistic Ignorance

Communication Accomodation

The CAT can be tested as a whole and is therefore falsifiable.

T or F

False too large!

Communication Accomodation

A doctor explains to a patient what desease they have. Because the doctor knows the patient most likely wont understand medical jargon, he simplifies his sentences and uses more basic terms to explain. The doctor is _______ toward the patient in his communicaiton accomodation.

Converging

Communication Accomodation

A problem CAT finds regarding stereotypes of the elderly is...

Young communicators have a negative response

Young communicators tend to over accomodate toward elders

Elderly begin to see themselves as inadequate when in fact they are not.

These are all correct

Face Negotiation Theory

Toomey created the face- predictability theory

T or F

False

Face Negotiation Theory

Face-giving strategy is used to defend and support another person's need for inclusion.

T or F

Face Negotiation Theory

Which of the following is NOT one of predictable styles of conflict management?

Face Negotiation Theory

Which of the following IS one of the additional styles of confict management?

Emotional Expression

Speech Codes

Speech Codes Theory is very objective.

T or F

False

Speech Codes

What research method did philipsen use?

Lab Testing

Review of Liturature

Ethnography

Speech Codes 

Which of the following is not a critique of speech codes theory?

Operates from an ethnocentric view point

Genderlect Styles

The term genderlect suggests masculine and femine styles of discourse are best viewed as two distinct cultural dialects.

T or F

True

Which of the following are critiques of Genderlect Styles?

The Aha factor

Tannens comments and examples tend to put down masculine values

kunkel and burleson reject the different cultures perspective.  Believe it is a myth.

All of the above

Generlect Styles

Which of the following movies was dialect provided as an example of Genderlect Styles in class discussion?

When Harry Met Sally

Standpoint Theory

A standpoint can be defined as a place from which one views society.  

T or F

Standpoint Theory

Standpoint Theory is most often applied to:

Feminism

Standpoint Theory

A person standing in society or within a social class has little to no significance when applying standpoint theory to a situation.

T or F

Muted Group Theory

Kramarae is the original theorist of the muted group theory.

T or F

False

Muted Group Theory

A group of couples are standing around talking about what they should do together over the weekend. The men are mostly making the decisions and suggesting ideas of what the couples should do.  One of the wives has a great idea but is to scared to voice her thoughts. This is an example of what theory?

Muted Group

Muted Group Theory

What are the major critiques of the muted group theory?

The questions of men's motives are problematic, feminist assume men want to control women