Speech Chapters 1

Front 1

Benefits of human communication

Back 1

Self-presentation, interpersonal and relationship skills, interviewing skills, interaction and leadership skills, public speaking skills, media literacy skills.

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Intrapersonal Communication

Back 2

Communication you have with yourself.

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Interpersonal Communication

Back 3

Communication between two persons or among a small group of persons.

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Interviewing

Back 4

Communication through question and answer

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Small Group Communcation

Back 5

Communication among members of groups of about 5-10 people. Meets both relationship needs and task needs.

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Organizational Communication

Back 6

Communication that takes place within an organization among members of the organization.

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Public Speaking

Back 7

Public communication or presentational speaking, communication between a speaker and an audience

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Computer-mediated Communication

Back 8

Communication between people that takes place through some computer connection.

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Mass Communication

Back 9

Communication from one source to many receivers.

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Types of Mass Communication

Back 10

TV, Radio, Internet, Music, Film and video

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Media Literacy

Back 11

Your ability to understand, evaluate, analyze, and produce mass communication messages

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Purposes of Communication

Back 12

To discover, to relate, to help, to persuade, to play

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Communication

Back 13

Occurs when one person (or more) sends and receives messages that are distorted by noise, occur within a context, have some effect, and provide some opportunity for feedback.

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Context

Back 14

4-D - physical, social-psychological, temporal, cultural
Physical = where, Social-psychological = status relationships, Temporal = time context, Cultural = culture of those involved.

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Sources

Back 15

Speaker

Front 16

Receiver

Back 16

Listener

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Encoding

Back 17

The act of producing mesages

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Code

Back 18

An encoded message sent by a sender

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Decoding

Back 19

The act of receiving messages

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Encoders

Back 20

Speakers or writers

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Decoders

Back 21

Listeners or readers

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Communication competence

Back 22

Your knowledge of the social aspects of communication and your ability to apply this information.

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Communication Messages

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Messages sent though any and all sensory organs

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Feedback

Back 24

Reactions to messages

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Feedforward Messages

Back 25

Messages sent to preface

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Metamessages

Back 26

Messages that communicate about other messages. Examples - feedback and feedforward.

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Metacommunication

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Communication about communication, can be either verbal or nonverbal

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Types of Feedback

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Positive vs.Negative, Person-focused vs. Message-focused, Immediate vs. Delayed, Low-monitored vs. High-monitored, Supportive vs. Critical (affirmation)

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Feedforward

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Info provided before sending primary messages

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Functions of Feedforward

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1. Opens channels of communication (EX) - phatic communication, or small talk)
2. Preview message - precursor to future messages
3. Altercast - asking receiver to approach the message as someone else.
4. Disclaim - make sure your message will not reflect negatively on you.

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Channel

Back 31

Medium through which the message passes.

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Noise

Back 32

Anything that interferes with your receiving a message.

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Types of Noise

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1.Physical - external to speaker and listener (truck outside the window)
2. Physiological - within sender/receiver (memory loss)
3. Psychological - mental interference (wandering thoughts)
4. Semantic - different "meaning" systems (accents)

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Effects of Communication

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1. Intellectual - changes in your thinking
2. Affective - changes in attitudes, values, beliefs, emotions
3. Psychomotor - changes in overt behaviors (how to dance, etc)

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Areas of Ethics

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1. Metaethics - origins of ethical principles
2. Normative - articulate standards of right and wrong
3. Applied - ethical implications of controversial issues

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Communication Adjustment Theory

Back 36

We adjust to accommodation the speaking style of our listeners.

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Content and relationship dimensions

Back 37

Content message - behavioral response expected
Relationship message - how the communication is to be dealt with.

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Punctuation of Communication

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Punctuating the continuous sequences of events into stimuli and responses for the ease of understanding and remembering.

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Symmetrical Relationship

Back 39

Two individuals mirror each other's behavior

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Complementary Relationships

Back 40

Two individuals engage in different behaviors. Behavior of one serves as stimulus for the other.

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Rigid Complementarity

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Extreme dependency

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Descriptions of Communication

Back 42

Irreversibility, inevitability, and unrepeatability