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Professor Miller
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Communication
Undergraduate 1
09/30/2014

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Why do we communicate?
Definition

physical needs

identity needs

social needs

practical goals(gettiing someone to do something)

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What are instrumental goals
Definition
getting others to behave in ways we want
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Linear communicatin model (7 parts)
Definition

Sender

Reciever

Message

Endocoding message

Decoding message

noise

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Transactional Communication model
Definition

very like the linear model but updated.

-uses communicator A and B instead of sender and reciever because both parties send and recieve messages iin a conversation

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interpersonal communications
Definition
transactional process involving participants who occupy different byt overlapping enviroments and create relationships through the exchange of messages.
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dyad
Definition
two people interacting
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impersonal communications
Definition
opposite of interpersonal, not group, public, or mass commuication
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Communication principals
Definition

Communication can be intentional or unintentional

its impossible not to communicate

communication is unrepeatable

communication is irreversible

Communication has content and relational dimension

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Content Dimension
Definition
involves the informaion being explicitly discussed
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relational dimension
Definition
expresses how you feel about the other person
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Communication misconceptions
Definition

More Communication is not always Better

Meanings are not in words

Successful Communication does not always involve shared understanding

Communication will not solve all prolems

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what is social media
Definition
all the channels that make remat communication possible
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Challenges of Social Media
Definition

Leaner Messages

Disinhibition

Permanence

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what is richness and leanness
Definition
describes the abundance or lack there of, of nonverbal cues that aid in the meaning of the communication
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what is Disinhibition
Definition
transmitting messages without thinking of the effect they will have on the reciever
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what is communication competence
Definition
achieveing one's goals in a manner that maintains or enhances the relationship in which it occurs
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What makes an Effective comminicator
Definition

no ideal way to communicate

Competence is situational

Compentence can be learned

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Congnitive Complexity
Definition
the ability to construct a variety of frameworks for viewing an issue
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Self-monitoring
Definition
process of paying cllose attention to one's behavior and using these observations to shape how one behaves
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What is involved in Social Media competence
Definition

Resepect other's need for undivided attention

keep a civil tone

don't intrude on bystanders

 

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what is Self-Concept
Definition
what you think you are
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what is self esteem
Definition
evaluations of self-worth
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what is personality
Definition
characteristic ways that you think and behave across a variety of situations
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what is reflected appraisal
Definition
the fact that each of us develops a self concept that reflects the way we believe others see us
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what is social comparison
Definition
evaluationg ourselves in terms of how we compare with others
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what are reference groups
Definition
peple which we compare against ourselves
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fallacies of Self Concept
Definition

Obsolete information

Distorted Feedback

Perfectionism

Social Expectations

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what is Cognitive Conservatism
Definition
tendency to seek and attend to info that conforms to an existing self concept
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what is a self-fulfilling prophecy
Definition
when a person's expectations of an event and his or her subsequent behavior based on those expectaions make the event more likely to occure than would otherwise have been true
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what is percieved self
Definition
the person you believe yourself to be in honest moments of self-examination
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why manage identities?
Definition

to start and manage relationships

Gain Compliance of others

to save face

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what is Self-disclosure, Social penetration, breadth, and depth
Definition

revealing information about oneself that is signifcant 

the depth and breath of self disclosre

amount of information volunteered

shift from impersonal to personal

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what are the parts of the johari window
Definition

known to self and others

known to self but not to others

known to others but not to self

unknow to both self and others

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what is catharsis
Definition
telling something to get it off your chest
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what is reciprocity
Definition

telling someone something private so they will tell you something private

 

 

 

 

 

 

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organization
Definition
arranging information in a meaningful way
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punctuation
Definition
determination of causes and effects in a series of interactions
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interpretation
Definition
attaching meaning to sense data
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negotiation
Definition
when people try to influence one another's perceptions and try to achieve a shared perspective
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ethnocentrism
Definition
attitude that one's culture is superior to others
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gender roles
Definition
how men and women are expected to act in society
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sex
Definition
biological characteristics
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gender
Definition
social and psychological
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attrubtion
Definition
process of explaining people's behaviors
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self-serving bias
Definition
judging oursleves in generous terms
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halo effect
Definition
tendency to form an overall positive impression of a person on the basis of one positive characteristic
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empathy
Definition
ability to re-create another person's perspective, to experience the world from the other person's point of view
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sympathy
Definition
you view the other person's situation from your point of veiw
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pillow method
Definition

I'm right youre wrong

youre right I'm wrong

we are both right both wrong

issue is not important

truth in all perspectives

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emotional intelligence or TACT
Definition
the ability to understand and manage one's own emotions and be sensitive to others
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reappraisal
Definition

rethinking the meaning of emotionally charged events in ways that alter their emotional impact

 

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high context cultures
Definition
are indirect-more we than I
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low context cultures
Definition
say what they want-stress the individual
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emotional labor
Definition
situations in which managing and even suppressing emotions is both appropriate and neccessary
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emotional contagion
Definition
process by which emotions are transferred from one person to another
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facilitative and debilitative emotions
Definition

-contribute to effective functioning

-detract from effective functioning

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emotional memory
Definition
seemingly harmless events can trigger debilitative feelings
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rumination
Definition
dwelling persistently on negative thoughts
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fallacy of causation
Definition

based of the irrational belief that emotions are caused by others

-visiting family and friends out of obligation

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sematic rules
Definition
reflect the ways in which users of a language assign meaning to a particular lingustic symbol or word
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equivocal language
Definition
statements that have more than one meaning
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relative words
Definition

gain meaning by comparison

small or big

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static evaluation
Definition

mistaken thought that people or things are unchanging 

"use IS"

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abstract language
Definition
vague in nature
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behavioral language
Definition
refers to specifid things that people say or do
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abstraction ladder
Definition
various levels that specify and abstract
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syntactic rules
Definition
govern grammer of a language
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pragmatic rules
Definition
how to interpret messages ina a given context
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powerless speech mannerisms
Definition
giving disclaimers before speaking opinions
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emotive language
Definition

descrie something and also announces how the speaker feels about it

 

cheap or thrifty

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Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Definition
the language we use shapes the world around us
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Ferdinand de Saurssere theory
Definition

sifnifier and sound image

picture that pops into mind

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Charles Pierce Theory
Definition
The symbol, what the sign stands for, the sense made of the sign
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natural vs. human signs
Definition

-cannot occure without the other thing (smoke and fire)

 

-arbitrary

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