Online Quizes

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The term communication mosaics refers to the fact that:

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the discipline of communications refers to distinct yet interrelated components.

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is not one of the six basic communication processes

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insisting on instant feedback

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The number one cause of divorce in the United States can be traced to ________ problems

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interrelated communication elements that affect each other.

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"I was walking down a crowded downtown street with my new friend when her eyes locked on a young man walking the opposite way. She tried to look away when he noticed her, but she seemed to recognize that he noticed her. He smiled, waved, and said "Hi Marie" while she could only force a smile and say "Hi Ian." She turned to me after he passed and said, "I used to date him."

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Relatioship level of meaning

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is not included in the linear model of communication

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encoding

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Not a question typically asked in association with Laswell's Linear Model of Communication?

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When did it occur?

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The transactional model defines communicators who participate ________ in the communications process.

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equally

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Seek dominance via rhetorical reasoning

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sophistics

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specious or deceptive

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sophistic reasoning

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the art of discovering ideas for speaking and argument

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invention

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Enhances a speakers credibility

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organization

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Empowerment to communicate in a society

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Michel Foucault

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Manipulative varible in data collection

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independent variblec

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interpretation of symbolic activities

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Textual analysis

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Discover meaning by immersing in context

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ethnography

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knowledge about significant past events

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historical research

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scholars challenege and idenify communication practices

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critical research

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studying phenomena in multiple ways

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triangulation

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thinking

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intrapersonal communication

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communication between people

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interpersonal communication

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argumentation and political communication

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public communication

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codes of thought that organizations share

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organizational communication

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moral principles of conduct

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ethics

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Perception and communication _________ eachother

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influence

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does not influence which stimuli we notice

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genetics

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(true/ false) Constructivism posits that perception occurs through a variety of distinct constructs

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true

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cognitive structures

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schemata

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ideal of a catagory

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prototypes

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yardsticks to measure and situations against biopolarities

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personal constructs

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predictive generalizations about people and situations

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sterotypes

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guide ot action

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script

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instructive process of creating explanation

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interpretation

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why things happen and why people act as they do

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attributions

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attributions that serve our personal interests

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self-serving bias

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influence of expectations on communication

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postive-centeredness

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ability to feel with another person

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empathy

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deduction between what you know or assume to be fact

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inference

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belief based on observations that are factual

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judgement

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what happenes when our expectations are violated

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Expectancy violation theory

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ability to perceive others as unique individual

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person-centeredness

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allow us to group people, events and situations into broad categories

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prototypes

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Order you use schema to evaluate a person:

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classification
constructs
sterotypes
idenity scripts

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internal-external locus, stability and control are all dimensions of:

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attribution

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The fact that verbal symbols are not instrinsically connected to what they represent is an example of:

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arbitrariness

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Language is NOT

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static

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Prone to demonstrare ambiguity in language:

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Martin Luther King Day

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Example of abstraction, movin from most to least:

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-periodical
-newspaper
-The new york times

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facts are objectibe, concret phenomena and activities.

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Brute

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facts determne the meaning of objectivity based on human interpretatiion

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institutional

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calling your grandfather sir, saying a marriage vow, and addressing the judge in a court of law are:

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regulative rules

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consoling a daughter who receved a college rejection notice, paying respects to the immediate family at a funeral and thanking your parents for purchasing a car for you are all:

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constitutive rules

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_____ are NOT rigidly fixed/ offer no flexibility

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rules

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_________ of verbal communication is our way to mark a flow of activity into meaningful units.

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punctuation

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symbols do NOT

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facilitate tension

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Totalizing is responding to a person as if:

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one label totally represents the person

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The 2004 Major League Baseball World Champion Boston Red Sox nicknamed themselves "The Idiots" after journalists criticized their unorthodox style of play. Such a label is an example of:

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reappropriation

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responsiveness, liking and power are all:

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relationship-level of meaning

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advantage of I-Language

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it is more honest

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a technique that reminds us that our evaluations only apply to specific times and circumstances.

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indexing