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| A set of systematic, informed hunches about the way things work |
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| Given two plausible explanations for the same event, we should accept the simpler version |
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| The requirement that a scientific theory must be stated in such a way that it can be tested and disproved if it is indeed wrong |
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| A research method that manipulated a varieable in a tightly controlled situation in order to find out if it has the predicted effect |
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| A reasurch method that uses questionaires and structured interviews to collect self-reported data that reflects what responents think, feel, or intend to do |
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| Self-referential Imperative |
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| Include yourself as a constituent of your own construction |
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| Grant others that occur in your constructiuon that the same autonomy your practice constructing them |
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| Scholars who use theory to reveal unjust communication practices that create or perpetuate an imbalace of power |
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| A method of participant observation designed to help researcher experience a cultures complex web meaning |
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| A research method that describes and interprets the characteristics of any text |
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| A process in which people generate meaning though the exchange of verbal and nonverbal messages in specific context, influenced by individual and social forces, and embedded in culture |
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| The building blocks of communication events |
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| Taking ideas and converting them into messages |
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| Receiving a message and interpreting its meaning |
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| Something that represents something else and conveys meaning |
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| The concrete meaning of the message, and the meanings suggested by or associated with the message and the emotions triggered by it |
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| What a message conveys about the relationship between the parties |
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| The physical surroundings of a communication event |
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| The people interacting during communication |
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| The means through which a message is transmitted |
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| Any stimulus that can interfere with or degrade, the quality of a message |
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| The response to a message |
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| Synergetic Model of Communication |
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| A transactional model based on the roles individuals and societal forces, context, and culture play in the communication process |
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| The education, life events, and culture backgrounds that a communicator possesses |
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| Learned patterns of perceptions, values, and behaviors shared by a group of people |
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| Standards of what is right and wrong, good and bad, moral and immoral |
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| The standards of right and wrong that one applies to messages that are sent and received |
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| Pertaining to the belief that there is a single correct moral standard that holds for everyone, everywhere, every time |
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| Pertaining to the belief that moral behavior varies among individuals, groups, and cultures and across situations |
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| Belief system that represents a particular worldview |
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| A set of statements that explains a particular phenomenon |
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| The specific ways that scholars collect and analyze data which they then use to prove of disprove their theories |
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| Scholars who study the are of public speaking and the art of persuasion |
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| Scholars in the 19th century who promoted the study of the mechanics of public speaking, including proper pronunciations, grammar, and gestures |
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| Contemporary term for the behavior approach |
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| The focus on the study of behavior as a science |
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| Relating to everyday, real-life situations, such as classroom, cafe, or shopping mall |
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| Methoda that convert date to numerical indicators, and the analyze these numbers using statistics to establish relationships among the concepts |
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| An interaction pattern in which one partner criticizer or tries to change the other partner, who responds by becoming defensive and then disengaging either psychologically or physically |
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| An emotional tie, such as the closeness young children develop with their caregivers |
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| Contemporary term for humanistic (rhetorical) study |
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| Communication that is used to influence the attitudes or behaviors of other; the art of persuasion |
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| A system of though that celebrates human nature and it potential |
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| Methods in which researchers study naturally occurring communication rather than assembling data and converting it to numbers |
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| Approaches to understanding communication that focuses on specific aspects of the content of a text of group of text |
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| Relating to studies in which researchers actively engage with participants |
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| Used by researchers to examine texts or public speeches as they occur in society with the aim of interpreting textual meaning |
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| An approach use not only to understand human behavior but ultimately to change society |
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| Similar to rhetorical analysis; used to analyze culture "products" such s media and public speeches |
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