Comm41 Midterm Review

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communication

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the process of acting on information

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human communication

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the process of making sense out of the world and attempting to share that sense with others by creating meaning through the use of verbal and nonverbal messages

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interpersonal communication

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a distinctive, transactual form of human communication involving mutual influence, usually for the purpose of managing relationships

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impersonal communication

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communication that occurs when we treat people as objects, or when we respond to their roles rather than to who they are as unique persons

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relationship

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an ongoing connection made with another person through interpersonal communication

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mass communication

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communication that occurs when one person issues the same message to many people at once; the creator of the message is usually not present, and there is virually no opportunity for listeners to respond to the speaker

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public communication

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communication that occurs when a speaker addresses an audience in person

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small-group communication

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communication that occurs when a group of from three to fifteen people meet to interact with a common purpose and mutually influence on another

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intrapersonal communication

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communication with yourself; thinking

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source

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originator of a thought or emotion, who puts it into a code that can be understood by a receiver

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encode

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to translate ideas, feelings, and thoughts into a code

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decode

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to interpret ideas, feelings and thoughts that have been translated into a code

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receiver

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person who decodes a message and attempts to make sense of what the source has encoded

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message

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written, spokn, and unspoken elements of communication to which people assign meaning

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channel

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pathway through which messages are sent