Communications Test 3

Front 1

machines and mechanics

Back 1

providers are viewed as competent experts, diagnosing problem and fixing it

Front 2

children parents

Back 2

patient and providers may display more emotional and personal involvement but the provider clearly portrays dominate role of expert while patient is pasive

Front 3

consumers

Back 3

paying providers to do a task

Front 4

partners

Back 4

provider and patient work together to solve problem

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action facilitating support

Back 5

providing information and performing tasks

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nurturing support

Back 6

helping people feel better about themselves and the issues they are having

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informational support

Back 7

provding information to increase another person's knowledge on a subject

Front 8

instrumental support

Back 8

performing task for someone

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emotional support

Back 9

people express their feelings which are then validated

Front 10

esteem support

Back 10

making someone feel competent

Front 11

communication privacy management theory

Back 11

how people can create and manage privacy boundaries with their relationships

Front 12

ethnocentric bias

Back 12

people who believe their culture and way of doing things the only right way

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coded system of meaning

Back 13

set of beliefs, a heritage, and a way being that is transacted in communication

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high context societies

Back 14

emphasis on total environment or context where speech and interaction take place

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low context societies

Back 15

emphasize commitment to jobs, adherence to plans, concerns for others' privacy, promptness, and attention to detail

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collectivists

Back 16

stress the benefit of the group as a whole

Front 17

individualist

Back 17

focusing on the needs of an indivudal person

Front 18

monchronic societies

Back 18

people who value time. time is money

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polychronic socities

Back 19

people who don't value time as much

Front 20

conflict

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real or perceived incompatibilities of processes, understandings and viewpoints between people

Front 21

conflict as opportunity cultures

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individualist. believe conflict is a normal and useful process.

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conflict as destructive cultures

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collectivist. believe conflict is unnecessary and devisating

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co-cultures

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smaller cultures within a culture groups

Front 24

speech communities

Back 24

how we communicate the culture of our time

Front 25

cultural persuadables

Back 25

certain topics that people in society never bother to persuade anyone else about because their arguments are always raised against it

Front 26

speech codes

Back 26

culture's verbalization of meaning and symbols

Front 27

culture as code

Back 27

how we do cultures in relationships

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restricted code

Back 28

certain communities are taken for granted in relationships and communications

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elaborated code

Back 29

uses speech and language more as a way for people to differentiate their unique personalities and ideas and to express their own beliefs

Front 30

media generations

Back 30

differentiated by unique media grammar and media consciousness based on the tech environment in which they were born

Front 31

microcoordination

Back 31

refers to the unique management of social interaction made possible through cell phones

Front 32

richness

Back 32

the number of nonverbal cue available through medium or tech

Front 33

midcourse adjustment

Back 33

changing plans once a person has already set out for the encounter

Front 34

Iterative coordination

Back 34

involves the progressive refining of an encounter

Front 35

softening of schedules

Back 35

adjusting schedule to meet w someone

Front 36

synchronous comm

Back 36

interactions in real time

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asynchronous comm

Back 37

interaction with short or long delays

Front 38

media equation

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maintains that media equal life in such a way that interactions with tech are "fundamentally social and natural." Interaction with tech are the same as interactions with people

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mini-com

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the growing tendency to focus media products on specific audience members connected by common bond

Front 40

uses and gratifications

Back 40

determine why media systems are used and what audience members gain from their use

Front 41

4 reasons why peopel use media

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escape, reality exploration, character reference, incidental reasons

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escapism

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avoid reality

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reality exploration

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secure basic info and to understand the world

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character reference

Back 44

find suitable models for one's own life

Front 45

incidental reasons

Back 45

miscellaneous category in which it is recognized that each individual may use or be gratified by media for very different, personal, and unique reasons

Front 46

socialization impact of media

Back 46

through media representation of relationships, people learn how to actually enact the behaviors consistent with various relational roles and how to properly engage in interactions

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going toward actions

Back 47

positive acts of relationship maintenance

Front 48

going against actions

Back 48

negative acts such as ignoring others

Front 49

going away actions

Back 49

acts through which a person distances themselves from others

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para-social relationships

Back 50

relationships people form with media characters and personalities

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media literacy

Back 51

entails the learned ability to access, interpret, and evaluate media products

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media profile

Back 52

compilation of your media preferences and general use of media, informs others about who you are as a person or at least the persona you are trying to project.

Front 53

representational or presentational

Back 53

any communication can describe "facts" or can offer a "spin" on those facts.

Front 54

persuasion

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convincing someone of your argument/position

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positivist or post-positivist

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f assumptions that things exist independently of being perceived, but that beliefs about those objects are relevant

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rhetorical

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comm as a practical discourse

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semiotic

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comm as inter-subjective activity mediated by signs

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phenomenological

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communication as experience
of others and otherness

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cybernetic

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(communication as information processing)

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sociopsychological

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expression interaction and influence

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sociocultural

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(reproduction of social order

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critical

Back 62

communication as discursive reflection

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Interpretivist

Back 63

learn about what the subject is doing, rather than object it.

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patirarchy

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when power is given to men over women

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critical theorists

Back 65

identify the hidden power of ideas

Front 66

hegemonic discourse

Back 66

the prevailing style of talk and understanding that is current and dominant in the
particular society

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social science

Back 67

precise measurements using things like social experiments to get results

Front 68

postmodernism

Back 68

there are many different truths, from different viewpoints. Never one answer.

Front 69

discourse of representation

Back 69

makes communication a neutral language of description. Comm shapes power and resources

Front 70

discourse of modernism and interpretivism

Back 70

In this understanding of communication, the mind does not simply reflect what is out there in nature but contributes something to the understanding of nature itself

Front 71

discourse of suspicion

Back 71

the suspicion that there might be three types of rationality
1. technical
2. practical
3. emancipatory

Front 72

discourse of vulnerability

Back 72

the individual will always lose any attempt to gain authority and simply looks at how truth claims are based on an individual's position without making any attempt to separate truth and power.