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Communications
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Undergraduate 1
02/11/2009

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Draw and label transactual model
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Do it
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Communication
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Sharing of thoughts, ideas, emotions, feelings with other people in commonly understandable ways. (process of action on information)
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Feedback
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Response during the message
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Every message has two parts:
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content and relationship
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Context
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Physical, historical, psychological communication environment. (Talking on beach and talking in funeral home)
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Frame of Reference
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What you think about something. Everybody has/can have different frame of reference.
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Noise
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Interference that hinders accurate encoding or decoding of message.
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physiological noise
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Internal noise. Having to do with the body. Too cold to function
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Psychological noise
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Mental blocks. 'I don't want to talk to you because___'. Competing thoughts, worries, feelings.
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Picture on front of Chapter One
'Visafe rouge et visage bleu' Jean Dubuffet.
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Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.

-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Communication is about...
Definition
Making sense, sharing sense, creating meaning, verbal and nonverbal messages.
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Human Communication
Definition
Process of making sense out of the world and sharing that sense with others by creating meaning through messages.
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Symbol
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Word, sound, gesture, or visual image that represents a thought, concept, object or experience.
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Making sense
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Identifying patterns and structure. Rationally and logically but also intuition, feelings, and emotions.
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Sharing sense
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Typically words, but also music, art, clothing, etc. to share what we exp with others.
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Creating meaning
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Meaning created through comm. rather than sent or transmitted. Co-created by other speaker and listener. Based on situation, perception, background, etc.
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Communication should be 'other-oriented':
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Because of misunderstanding, should acknowledge perspective of others, not just creator or msg.
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Three things message should be
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understood as communicator intended it to be understood. Achieve communicator's intended effort. Ethical.
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Ethics:
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beliefs, values, and moral principles by which we determine what's right or wrong.
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Source
Definition
Originator of a thought or emotion. Who puts it into code that can be understood by receiver.
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Encoding
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Process of translating ideas, feelings, and thoughts into a code
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Decoding
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Process of interpreting ideas, feelings, and thoughts that have been translated into code.
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Receiver
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Person who decodes message and attempts to make sense out of what source has encoded
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message
Definition
written, spoken, and unspoken elements of communication to which people assign meaning.
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channel
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pathway through which messages are sent
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Communication is three things:
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Inescapable, irreversible, complicated.
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Content
Definition
Part of message that focuses on new info, ideas, etc. (What is said)
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Relationship dimension
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Part of message that offers cues about emotions, attitude, etc that speaker directs toward others. (How something is said)
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rule
Definition
followable prescription that indicated what behavior is expected or preferred.
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Intrapersonal
Definition
Communication that occurs within yourself (thoughts and emotions)
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Three situations:
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interpersonal, group, presentational.
Settings change way we communicate.
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Subjective self-awareness
Definition
Ability to differentiate self from social and physical environment
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Objective self-awareness
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Ability to be object of one's own attention. To be aware of state of mind and realize one is thinking and remembering.
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Symbolic self-awareness
Definition
human ability to develop and communicate a representation of oneself to others.
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Unconscious incompetence
Definition
We're unaware of own incompetence. (Don't know what we don't know)
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Conscious competence
Definition
Aware we know or can do something, but hasn't become skill or habit.
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Conscious incompetence
Definition
become aware that we're not competent.(we know what we don't know)
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unconscious competence
Definition
Skills become 2nd nature. (Know you can do it, but don't have to concentrate to do it)
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Belief
Definition
Way you structure your understanding of reality. (true/false)
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Value
Definition
enduring concept of right and wrong (good/bad)
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self-image
Definition
person's view of herself in a PARTICULAR SITUATION
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self-concept
Definition
person's subjective description of who she is (use reflected appraisal to develop it)
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attitude
Definition
learned predisposition to respond to a person, object, or idea in favorable or unfavorable way. (likes/dislikes)
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Social self
Definition
your concept of self determined on how you socialize
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How self-concept develops
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communication with others, association with groups, assumed roles, self-labels.
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Self fulfilling prophecy
Definition
Think you can do well on test, then you do better on test.
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Factors affecting self-esteem
Definition
sex, social, self-expectations, self-fulfilling prophecies.
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