Intro To Comm (Final)

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Communication

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sharing of experience

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Symbol

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something used for or regarded as representing something else

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Input

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all the stimuli, both past and present, that give us our information about the world

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Unintentional Verbal Messages

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are the things we say without meaning to

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Intentional Verbal Messages

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conscious attempts we make to communicate with others through speech

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Container Fallacy

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it is a fallacy to believe that meanings are carried or contained by words

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Technical Interference

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the factors that cause the receiver to perceive distortion in the intended information or stimuli

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Semantic Interference

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When the receiever does not attribute the same meaning to the signal that the sender does

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Feedback

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return to you of behavior you have generated

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Emotional Inteligence

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includes self-awareness, which allows individuals to understand their own behavior and communications and the effect that these behaviors and communications have on others

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Organizational Communication

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the flow of messages within a network of interdependent relationships

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Phatic Communication

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maintaining contact

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Selective Attention

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the ability to process certain of the stimuli available to us while filtering out others

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Perceptual Filters

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physiological limitations that are built into human beings and cannot be reserved

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Psychological Sets

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our expectations or predipositions (tendencies) to respond

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Self-Concept

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relatively stable impressions of yourself

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Looking-Glass Self

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a sense of self that develops out of our relations and interactions with others; evaluating ourselves on the basis of how we think other perceive and evaluate us

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Frog Pond Effect

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being a "big frog" in a small pond or a success in a relatively unsuccessful group preferred over situations in which the performance of an individual's group may outshine the individual's own success

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Self-Fulfilling Prophecies

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expectation about another's behavior influences unwittingly leads to the predicted behavior (Pygmalion effect - other believe you are something then you will become that)

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Private Theory of Personality

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how we select and organize information about other people on the basis of what behaviors we think go together

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Primacy Effect

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first information we receive about a person is the most decisive in forming our impression

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Interpersonal Sensitivity

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success in decoding nonverbal communication or the accurate recall of another person's nonverbal behavior

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Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

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the world is perceived differently by members of different communities and that this perception is transmitted and sustained by language

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Chronemics

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how human beings communicate through their use of time

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Monochronic

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time that is thought as linear and segmented (time gets saved, spent, wasted)

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Polychronic

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many things going on at once

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Kinesics

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study of body movements in communication

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Oculesis

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Study of the role of eye behavior such as eye contact, eye movements, and pupil dilation in communication

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Haptics

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study how we use touch to communicate

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Objectics

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study of how we select and make use of physical objects

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Paralingustics

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something beyond or in addition to language itself (aspects of spoken communication not involving words)

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Vovalizations

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noises without linguistic structure (crying, laughing, grunting)

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Egocentric Bias

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our memories distort things so what we tend to remember with past experience in a self-enhancing light (we remember things the way we like to think things were)

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Golden Mean

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morality is to be found in moderation (Aristotle)

moral virtues as choices or modes of choice

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Categorical Imperative

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command or obligation to act that is absolute one with no exceptations or conditions (Kant)

Makes certain behaviors unacceptable under any circumstances

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Utilitariansim

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a doctrine that places primary value on the outcomes or consequences of our actions rather than our more intentions (Bentham & Stuart)

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Greatest Happiness Principle

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justify your actions if they produce the greatest amount of happiness or most good

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Justice and Veil of Ignorance

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a principle of justice or fairness that insures protection of those whose position is weakest (what is moral is what is for all) (John Rawls)

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Proximity

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Geographic Closeness