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Intro to Comm: Exam 1
Chapter 1
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Communication
Undergraduate 1
02/21/2012

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communication

 

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a social process in which individuals employ symbols to establish and interpret meaning in the environment
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social
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suggesting that communication involves people and interactions; either face to face or online
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process
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communication is ongoing and unending
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symbol
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arbitrary label of representation of phenomena
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concrete symbols
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represents an object
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abstract symbols
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stands for thought or idea
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meaning
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what people extract from a message
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environment
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the situation or context in which communication occurs
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Palo Alto Team
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believe that when two people are together, they constantly communicate because they cannot escape behavior
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models
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simplified representations of complex interrelationships among elements in the communication process, which allows us to understand a sometimes complex process
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linear model of communication
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explains how information passes through various different channels
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source
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transmitter of a message
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message
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words, sounds, actions, or gestures in an interaction
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reciever
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reciepient of a message
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channel
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pathway to communication
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noise
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distortion in channel not intended by the source
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semantic noise
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linguistic influences on reception of message
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physical (external) noise
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bodily influences on reception of message
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psychological noise
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cognitive influences on reception of message
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physiological noise
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biological influences on reception of a message
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interactional model of communication
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view of communication as the sharing of meaning with feedback that links source and reciever
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feedback
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communication given to the source by the reciever to indicate understanding (meaning)
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field of experience
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overlap of senders and recievers culture, experiences, and heredity in communication
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transactional model of communication
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view of communication as the simultaneous sending and recieving of messages
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ethics
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perceieved rightness or wrongness of an action or behavior
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