Communications Test 1

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Native/Personal Theories

Back 1

allow us to navigate in our physical and social environment.
based on everyday experiences
ex. help us describe particular places & things, explains how to develop close relationships, predicts weather, control volume using a remote

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Characteristics of native theories

Back 2

based on everyday experience
taken for granted
private
stable

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Scholarly Theories

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-questioned
-public: validity (accuracy), reliability (consistency & dependability), utility (usefulness & applicability)
-subject to modification
-based on systematic observation and testing

Front 4

Native/Personal theories about communication

Back 4

-you cannot NOT communicate
-you are always drawing inferences about people

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Definition of communication

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human communication is the process through which individuals in relationships, groups, organizations and societies create and use information to relate to the environment and one another

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Communication & Social Science

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-sociology
-psychology
-anthropology

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Communication & Liberal Arts

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-Linguistics
-Literary Theory
-Feminist Theory

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Communication & Professions

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-Law
-Medicine
-Business

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What influence models of communications

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-paradigms
-anomalies

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Paradigm

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Broad theoretical orientations that guide the work of scholars in a field over a substantial period of time.
pervasive and highly influential and shape and are reflected in scholars theories, research, and practice

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Anomalies

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inconsistency or discrepant observation that challenges the paradigm

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Aristotle

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-speaker constructs messages that bring about persuasive effects among listeners
- factors: source and message
- one way

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Lasswell

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-Speaker constructs messages, selects a channel, and thereby brings about a range of effects among listeners
- factors: source, message, channel
- one way

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Shannon-Weaver

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-Source encodes message and transmits through channel to receiver
- factors: source, message, noise
- one way with feedback

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Schramm

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-Source encodes messages and transmits information through channel to receiver, if they have a shared field of experience
- Factors: source, message, noise
- one way

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Katz-Lazarsfeld

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-source encodes messages and transmits information through mass media to opinion leaders who relay it to public
-factors: channel, message, receiver, opinion leader
-one way (mediated)

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Westley & Maclean

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-Source selectively encodes messages and transmits information in modified form to receiver who decodes, encodes, and transmits information in modified form to other individual with feedback at every step
-factors: reciever, meaning, feedback
-circular (through feedback)

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Dance

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individuals encode and decode messages based on previous communication experiences
-factors: process, time
-helical spiral

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Watzlawick, Beavin, Jackson

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Individuals exchange messages through behavior, the meaning of which varies with each person depending largely upon the communicative relationship between them
-Factors: receivers, meaning, process, metacommunication
-two way

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Thayer

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Individuals generate and disseminate, acquire and process information in an on going dynamic process
-Factors: receiver, originator, information processing and disseminating
-circular

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DeVito

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Individuals send and receive messages that are distorted within a context, have some effect and provide opportunities for feedback
-Factors: sender, receiver, distortion, feedback
-bidirectional interactive

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systems theory

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Systems theory is an interdisciplinary theory about the nature of complex systems in nature, society, and science, and is a framework by which one can investigate and/or describe any group of objects that work together to produce some result.

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Aspects of communication

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-visual messages
-tactile messages (touch)
-auditory messages
-olfactory and gustatory messages
pheromones (smell)

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human's create....

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animals manipulate

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What do we ALL use communication for?

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-courtship
-parent/offspring relationships & socialization
-navigation
-self defense
-territoriality

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visible aspects of communication

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-interactants
-symbols
-media

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invisible aspects of communication

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-meaning
-learning
-subjectivity
-negotiation
-culture
-interacting contexts and levels
-self reference
-self reflexivity
-ethics
-inevitability

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communication breakdown

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invisible aspects of communication may explain why different peoples interpretations of a communicative event may be different

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message

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symbol or collection of symbols that has meaning or utility

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message reception

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process of interpretation; how we attend to, attach significance to , and use messages

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inevitablitiy

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impossible to avoid or prevent