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Comm 1001 1st EditionExam # 1 Study Guide Lectures: 1 - 4Lecture 1 (January 13th)Successful communication needs to be both __________ and _________?Effective, appropriate What are the two general reasons to study communication? 1) Social, personal and workplace benefits 2) The need to improve our communication with others What is the study of communication? - The study of how people create, learn, change and use symbols and symbolic actions - A transactional process of sharing meaning with others - Messages and symbolically encoded and decoded by people based on the meanings they assigns When does communication stop? Never it is continual What is a theory?A set of systematic informed hunches about the way things work How do we learn to communicate? - Practice - Observation - Study What are the areas of communication we study? - Interpersonal - Intrapersonal - Small group - Health - Public speaking - Organizational - Rhetoric - Persuasion/argumentation What do you need to have a good theory? Research and investigate or have some expirence/educated guesses What are the goals of study? Description ExplanationPrediction Social change How do we evaluating theories? - Testability - Parsimony- Logical consistency - Usefulness - Scope Which of the following was presented as a truism among communication scholars? Words don’t mean things people mean things Lecture 2 (January 15th) _________ Are based on assumptions about “reality” and how we know reality?theories what is the belief about what reality is and where it comes from? Ontology How do we learn about and understand reality? Epistemology What the 3 paradigms- Objective - Interpretive - Critical KNOW ALL PARTS OF EACH THEORY Define determinism? For everything that happens that are conditions such that given conditions nothing else could happen “we have little control” Define Free Will? The ability too make your own choices with out outside interferenceLecture 3 (January 20th)Two Things for a good theory? - Not all theories are created equal - Scholars for different compartments tend to disagree 6 criteria of scientific theory?- Explain past and present - Predicts the future - Relatively simple - Testable - Practical utility - Quantifiable research 6 criteria of an interpretive theory? - Create understanding- Identify values - Inspire aesthetic appreciation- Stimulate agreement - Reform society- Conduct qualitative research Lecture 4 What are the 7 Traditions of theories? 1. The socio-psychological 2. The cybernetic 3. The rhetorical 4. The semiotic 5. The socio-cultural 6. The critical 7. The phenomenological KNOW ALL PARTS OF EACH TRADITION REFER TO TEXT BOOK CHAPTERS


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