COMM 1210 1st EditionExam # 1 Study GuideTHE SINGLE CONTINGENCY PERSPECTIVE• Know what a model is, what it looks like, and which models we have studied.• Know what a perspective is, and what it looks like in communication.• Know what communication IS.• Know what communication DOES.• Know what the success of communication depends on for each perspective.• Know what the communication challenge is for each perspective.• Know how each perspective is related to the next.• Know what the focus of each perspective is.• Know what an observable aspect/element of communication is.Week 1 & 2—Messages: Intro and Chapters 1-3• Know the social problem addressed by Messages.• Be able to compare and contrast scholarly monographs vs. trade books.• Know what translational scholarship is.• Be able to identify the communication challenge addressed by Messages.• Know what perspective of communication Messages falls within.• Know what view of communication Messages captures.• Know the basic concepts from the chapters on “Basic Skills” in Messages.Week 3—Messages: Chapters 4-8• Know what the relationship is between “Basic Skills” and “Advanced Skills” in Messages.• Know the basic concepts from the chapters on “Advanced Skills” in Messages.• Be able to explain what are basic skills.• Be able to explain Messages deep belief(s) in the value of social relations.• Explain the relationship Messages builds between communication and social relationships.• Understand how Messages views communication (Hint: 8 implications highlighted by DBH).• From the view of Messages, explain the purpose and value of skills.Week 4—Messages: Chapters 9-12• Know the basic concepts from the chapters on “Conflict Skills” in Messages.• Be able to explain the 4 assumptions of the skills model of communication.• Be able to explain how the skills model may be beneficial.• Be able to explain how the skills model may be limited.• Be able to identify critiques of the single contingency perspective and its associatedmodels.• Be able to identify and explain what it means to be a proficient communicator.THE DOUBLE CONTINGENCY PERSPECTIVE• Know what communication IS.• Know what communication DOES.• Know how the single contingency perspective relates to the double contingency perspective.• Know what the success of communication depends upon.• Know the focus of the double contingency perspective.• Know what the communication challenge is.• Be able to explain the difference between scripted and non-scripted interaction.• Identify and define the preferred model of comm of the double contingency perspective• Be able to explain the relationship between society and communication.• Explain what is meant by society as communicational.• Be able to explain a constitutive view of communication and its relationship to seeing societyas communicational.Week 5—Cameron• Know the main argument(s) advanced by Cameron.• Identify the communication problem being addressed.• Be able to explain “communication culture” and its basic tenets.• Be able to explain the consequences of “communication culture.”• Know what “therapy-talk” is referring to and its relationship to “good communication.”• Be able to explain how the “self as reflexive project” and economic change relate to skills.• Be able to explain, according to Cameron, the problems with emphasizing skills.Week 6—Tracy et al.• Know the main argument(s) advanced by Tracy et al.• Identify the communication problem being addressed.• Be able to explain the relationship between metaphors and observable communication.• Be able to explain what a metaphor IS and what a metaphor DOES.• Be able to talk about metaphors as “sense-making” and “framing” devices.• Know why metaphors can be useful for studying workplace bullying.• Know whose perspective is studied (or privileged) by Tracy et al.• Be able to identify the function of metaphors in social interaction.Week 7—Engstrom• Identify the ways “humans” have been communicatively constituted throughout history.• Be able to compare and contrast physical and human/social facts.• Know the differences between cultural rules and norms and why we need both.• Know the differences and similarities between sex and gender.• Be able to explain what a symbol is and how symbols have meaning.• Be able to explain what taking a constituitive view of communication allows us to explain.• Know what the relationship between communication and reality is.• Explain what objectivity is and distinguish it from a constituitive view of communication.• Be able to explain the communicative constitution of excessive drinking (3 ways).• Explain the result of communicatively constituting college students as excessive drinkers.• Explain the role of masculinity in communicatively constituting students as