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| relational process of creating and interpreting messages that elicit a response |
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| Theorist who said that a theory is an informed set of hunches; the theorist must do research before creating said hunch. |
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| art of using all available means of persuasion, focusing upon lines of argument, organization of ideas, language use, and delivery in public speaking |
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| theory of how one acquires knowledge |
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| study the customs and people of a culture; walk in someone else's moccasins to understand their culture |
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| collecting data in numbers via survey, or can be manipulated in an experiment to produce numbers |
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| gather information from interviews, literature, diaries, etc. |
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| A theory has to be ________ to be testable. |
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| Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis of Linguistic Relativity |
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| claim that the structure of a language shapes what people think about and do; social construction of reality |
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| using signs and symbols to communicate a message |
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| Their main job is to test a theory. |
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| inner dialogue that chooses the best "movie" in your head for a situation |
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| The behavioral scientist's main job is to... |
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| The interpretive scholar strives to know... |
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| words don't have meaning; humans assign meaning to words. |
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| Regards communication as the link connecting the separate parts of any system, such as a computer system, family system, media system, or a system of social support. |
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| Traditional rhetorical communication |
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| the art of using all available means of persuasion: argument, organization of ideas, language use, and delivery of public speaking. |
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| Where does rhetorical tradition come from? |
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| Greco-Roman rhetors (Aristotle, Plato, Cicero, Quintilian) |
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| Proper Meaning Superstition |
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| The belief that words have precise definitions. |
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| The tendency for our expectations to evoke responses that confirm what we originally anticipated. |
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| Viewed as an object--the image of self seen in the looking glass of other people's reactions. |
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| The mental self-image that results from taking the role of the other; the objective self; me. |
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| A collaborative approach to investigation that seeks to engage community members as equal and full participants in the research process. |
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Intimate distance: 0-18in
Personal distance: 18in-4ft
Social distance: 4-10ft
Public distance: 10ft-infinity |
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| Communicator reward valence |
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| the sum of positive and negative attributes brought to the encounter plus the potential to reward of punish in the future. |
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| Burgoon's EVT has been criticized because it... |
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| Person-centered messages have been linked to |
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| the mental ability to distinguish subtle personality and behavior differences among people. |
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| A recollection of an action taken in a specific situation paired with its consequences. |
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| Which is the best cognitive complex? |
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| The speaker is able to anticipate how different individuals might respond to a message and adjust his or her communication accordingly. |
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| Altman and Taylor's social penetration theory |
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| The process of developing deeper intimacy with another person through mutual self-disclosure and other forms of vulnerability. |
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| Self-disclosure makes one |
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| voluntarily share personal history, preferences, attitudes, feelings, values, secrets, etc. with another person. |
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| As a person's ability to predict behaviors increases, uncertainty... |
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| Hyperpersonal relationship |
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| CMC relationships are more intimate than romances or friendships would be if partners were physically together. |
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| The deep structure of all human experience. |
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| Communication that attempts to neutralize power. |
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| The tacit collusion of family members to maintain the status quo. |
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| The range of ideas that a person sees as unreasonable or objectable. |
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| Range of ideas that a person sees as reasonable or worthy of consideration |
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| Attitude change in the opposite direction of what the message advocates; listeners driven away from rather than drawn to an idea. |
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| Strong arguments and objective elaboration |
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| Messages that generate favorable thoughts when heard and scrutinized. |
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| The extent to which a person carefully thinks about issue-relevant arguments contained in a persuasive communication. |
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| Message elaboration; the path of cognitive processing that involves scrutiny of message content. |
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| A mental shortcut process that accepts or rejects a message based on irrelevant cues as opposed to actively thinking about the issue. |
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| The tendency people have to avoid information that would create cognitive dissonance because its incompatible with their current beliefs. |
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| Festinger's minimal justification hypothesis |
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| A claim that the best way to stimulate an attitude change in others is to offer just enough incentive to elicit counter attitudinal behavior. |
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| Hirokawa and Gouran: Types of Communication in Decision-Making Groups: Promotive |
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| interaction that moves the group along the goal path by calling attention to one of the four requisite decision-making functions |
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| Hirokawa and Gouran: Types of Communication in Decision-Making Groups: Disruptive |
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| Interaction that diverts, retards, or frustrates group members' ability to achieve the four task functions |
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| Hirokawa and Gouran: Types of Communication in Decision-Making Groups: Counteractive |
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| Interaction that members use to get the group back on track. |
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| perceived competence and trustworthiness of speaker or writer that affects how the message is received |
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| Research method that manipulates a variable in a tightly controlled situation in order to find out if it has the predicted effect |
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| The most common form of textual analysis |
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| imaginative language by a group member describing past, future, or outside events; creative interpretation of the there-and-then. |
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| mental ability to distinguish subtle personality and behavioral differences among people |
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| Tailor-made message for a specific person and context; reflects communicator's ability to anticipate response and adjust accordingly |
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| Social penetration theory |
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| process of developing deeper intimacy with another person through mutual self-disclosure and other form of vulnerability |
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| Uncertainty reduction theory |
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| increased knowledge of what kind of person someone is, which provides a forecast of how future interaction will turn out |
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| self-evident truth that requires no additional proof |
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| Computer-mediated communication |
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| Hyperpersonal perspective |
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| claim that CMC relationships are often more intimate than those developed when parters are physically together |
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| Dynamic knot of contradictions in personal relationships; an unceasing interplay between contrary or opposing tendencies |
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1. analysis of the problem
2. goal setting
3. identification of alternatives
4. evaluation of positive and negative characteristics |
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| Hirokawa & Gouran Functional Decision Making |
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| Constructed, invented, planned, crafted, constituted, selected, and adopted |
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| Communicator's choices about a message's form and substance: |
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| must stimulate any cognitive, emotional, or behavior action. |
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| The effect or outcome of a communication message |
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| Strict social scientist believe: |
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| Cybernetic tradition contribution |
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| has been a link connecting separate parts of any system: computer, family, media, or a system of social support. |
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| shared meaning and intention of a message with someone else |
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| Sharing group fantasies creates... |
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| Imaginative language by a group member describing past, future, or outside events; creative interpretation of the there-and-then |
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| Cognitive complexity is related to the theory of... |
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| Uncertainty Reduction Theory |
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| increased knowledge of what kind of person someone is , which provides a forecast of how future interactions will turn out |
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| Social Information Processing Theory |
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| The hyperpersonal perspective is related to this theory... |
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| Functional group decision-making perspective |
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| describes and predicts task-group performance when four communication functions are fulfilled |
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| Elaboration Likelihood Model |
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| Peripheral & central route, source credibility are related to this theory... |
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| perception and evaluation of an idea by comparing it with current attitudes |
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| Latitude of acceptance & rejection, ego-involvement, and the boomerang effect are associated with this theory... |
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| self-regulating, interdependent loop of interaction |
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| Theories can be symbolized by... |
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| act, scene, agent, agency, purpose |
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| Burke's dramatistic pentad |
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