COMM 1001: 1st Exam
44 Cards in this Set
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Communication
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Social process in which individuals use symbols to establish and interpret meaning in the environment
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Purpose of a theory
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to improve and understand communication
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Altman and Taylor's main focus of Social Penetration Theory
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Self-disclosure is the path to intimacy
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Berger assumes when strangers meet, their primary concern is:
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increase predictability about the behavior of themselves and others.
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premise of uncertainty reduction is
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focuses on how human communication is used to gain knowledge and create understanding.
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two types of uncertainity?
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Cognitive- refers to the degree of uncertainty based on beliefs and attitudes
Behavioral- pertains to the extent behavior is predictable in certain situations.
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Axiom
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self- evident truths that require no additonal proof.
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High levels of uncertainty produce
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Anxiety
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Berger's strategies that reduce uncertainty
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Seeking info., plan complexity, hedging, hieracy hypothesis
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Social Penetration Theory
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shifts superficial relationships to intimate.
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Altman and Taylor compare the human psyche to:
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an onion
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Relationship reward/costs
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If perceived mutual benefits outweigh the costs of greater vulnerability, the process of social penetration will proceed.
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SIDE
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Overestimating similarities
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Chronemics
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Peoples percieved sense of time
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Hyerpersonal relationships
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When people meet online, they have the potential to have a better relationship vs. those who meet face to face
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CMC impression formation
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composite mental image of the other that one creates.
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Person-centered messages
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those who are cognitive complex can achieve their communication goals. having good listener adaptation
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construct differentation
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number of contructs you can use in a concept
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cognitive complex vs. simple person
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cognitive complex people can understand other people's differences better
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Proxemics
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the study of people's use of space
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Violation Valence
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The positive or negative value we place on unexpected behavior
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Communicatior Reward Valence
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Sum of the positive and negative attributes that the person brings to the encounter plus the potential they have to reward of punish in the future
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Self concept is developed by
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interactions with others. provides an important motive for behavior
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Contexts in communication
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Intrapersonal
Small group
Public
Interpersonal
Organizational
Mass
Intercultural
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Possible Comm Careers
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Research
Education
Humation Relations and Management
PR and advertising
consulting
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Ethnography
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if one wishes to study a culture by immersing oneself in that culture, all the while observing what is goin on, one is engaged in...
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Qunatitative research
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Requires researchers (social scientists) to cinvert numbers to statistical analyses. ex- surveys, experiments
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Qualitative research
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Require data to be interpreted through sense making analyses. involves an interpretive scholar ex- story telling. Believes in free will and choice making.
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Turner's definition of Theory
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Process of developing ideas that allow us to explain how and why
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Standards that guide you to judge the worth of theories:
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Scope- what are the boundaries of explanation
Logical consistency- theories should make sense
utility- useful, practical
testability- can they be shown to be T or F
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symbolic interactionism
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motivated to act based on meanings we assign to people, places, and things created via language.
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meanings in symbolic interactionism
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Mind
Self-concept
society
particular other
general other
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symbolic interactionism = origin of meaning
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humans behave socially based on associations created in interaction b/w ppl
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Symbolic interactionism theory
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tendency for our expectations to evoke responses that confirm what we originally expected
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Mead believed the best way to study the phenomena we now know today as S.I is through
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Qualitative reasearch based on 3 main concepts
1. Mind
2. Self
3. Society
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How is our self-concept developed
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through interactions with others. Provides an important motive for behavior
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Edward Hall's term for the study of people's use in space
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Proxemics
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Expectancy Violations theory was a leading theory in identiflying the influence of _________________ on behavior
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positive or negative value
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Intimate distance
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distance reserved for family and friends
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Key Assumptions for the Expectancy Violation theory
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Expectancies for human behavior are learned (drive human interaction)
People will react to space violations
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SIP describes what through CMC
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Impression formation
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How does CMC compare to face-to-face communication?
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4:1 ratio
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Key factor that determines whether CMC achieves the same level of intimacy as face-to-face communication
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Time
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Which nonverbal cue is not filtered out in CMC
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COMM 1001: exam 3