Foundations Of Communications Unit One

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Four Basic Communication Activities

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Listen Speak Read Write

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Fuctions of Communication

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Inform
Explain
Persuade

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Manuscript Speech

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A speech in which one reads from a prepared text (teleprompter)

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Memorized

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A speech that is good for a brief presentation

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Impromptu

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A speech in which the speaker has no preparation in advance

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Extemporaneous

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an outlined speech backed with data and a visual aid while seeming more conversational and directed, such as a class lecutre or a corporate presentation

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First example of a study of communications

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Aristotles The Rhetoric

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People usually speak ___ words per minute

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Speak: 150 wpm

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People can comprehend at what rate?

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Comprehend 300 wpm

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Communication

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to share or make common

transactional process of sharing meaning with others

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Needs satisfied by communication

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Physical, Identity, Social, Practical

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Major areas of study

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Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, small group, organizational, public/rhetorical, mass, intercultural

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Message

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What is being send from the sender to the receiver

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Types of Noise

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environmental, psychological, cultural, semantic (meaning of words, such as slang or different languages), Syntactic (sentence structure), Physiological, organizatioal

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Linear Model

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Speaker --> receiver

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Interactive

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Speaker encodes and sends message and receiver gives feedback and decodes

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Fields of Experience

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Frames of reference that oen brings to a communication situation

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Transactional Model

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We are simultaneously the sender and the receiver

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Context

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Physical, temporal, historical, social-psychological

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Perception

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Selection, Organization and Interpretation of sensory information in order to give meaning to the communication that we receive

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Selection

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Includes: intensity (is it loud, bright, the only red among the grey?), Repitition, Contrastive (something moves that was stationary), Extensity (large among the small), Needs (food among the hungry)

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Organization (Patterns)

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Figure and ground, closure, proximity, similarity

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Interpretation

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assign the meaning

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Factors that can account for all the differences in perceptions

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physical characteristics, cultural background, past experiences (perceptual constancy), gender, psychological state, media and its attempt to shape our views

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Primacy Effect

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First impressions

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REcency Effect

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Lasting impression

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Attribution Theory

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People perceive an action, behavior or comment, judge the intent of the acb, and attribute a reason or a motivation for the abc.

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Self-serving bias

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People are far more charitable to themselves than they are to others when explaining behavior

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Self-concept

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related to self-serving bias, we protect ourselves

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self-fulfilling processes

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psyching one's self in or out of an event, like knowing you'll win a game and winning

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stereotypes

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people take an arbitrary even and assign the trait to an entire type of people

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Negativity Bias

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People tend to regard negative images and information more significantly than positive ones

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Language

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includes a collection of symbols that we use to convey verbal messages. both spoken and written

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Rules of language

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phonological, semantic, sytactic, pragmatic

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Phoneme

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Samllest unit of sound

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diphthong

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rapid blending together of two vowel sounds to create a new sound

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denotative

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dictionary, literal, objective meaning

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connotative

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subjective, personal

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Pragmatic rules

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regard the usage of language, such as executing plans and delivering a message

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Euphemism

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a type of troublesome language

sweetens topics or avoids taboos

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Jargin

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technical language devised by a professional group

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gobbledy-gook

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filler words, bureaucrats use these

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Kinesics

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Body language

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Proxemics

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distance and space, depending on gender, immediacy behaviors, status and age. Studied by Edward T. Hall

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Haptics

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Touch communication, tactile communication, most primary form

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Gustatory

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taste

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olfacticts

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smell

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chronemics

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time