Test 1 Comm Theory

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Communication

Back 1

relational process of clearing and interpreting messages that elicit a purpose.

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Symbols

Back 2

arbitrary words and nonverbal signs, that meaning is learned through different culture.

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Symbolic Interaction

Back 3

ongoing use of language and gestures in anticipation of how the other will react.

Front 4

Social construction of reality

Back 4

People and groups interact over a period of time create concepts your mental representations of each other's actions.

Front 5

Humanistic Model

Back 5

study of what it feels like to be another person in a specific time/ place.

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Theory

Back 6

set of systematic hunches about way things work

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Rhetoric

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Persuasion, art of using persuasion

Front 8

Paradigms

Back 8

schools of thought

Front 9

Looking glass self

Back 9

mental self-image that results from taking role of the other

Front 10

Empirical evidence

Back 10

data collected through direct observation

Front 11

Metatheory

Back 11

theory about theory, assumptions made while creating a theory

Front 12

Falsifiability

Back 12

any theory be stated in a way you could argue

Front 13

Critical tradition

Back 13

reflective challenge of unjust discourse

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Semiotic

Back 14

study of verbal and nonverbal signs that can stand for something else

Front 15

Generalized self

Back 15

-Mental image or has his/herself depending societal expectations and responses

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Reward valence

Back 16

sum of pos/ neg attributes brought to the encounter, reward or punish in future whatever you do for/ to me.

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Self-fulfilling prophecy

Back 17

tendency to be right when receiving a response that we know we’d get

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Proxemics

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study of set measurable distances people use as they interact

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Model

Back 19

Multiple theories from multiside phenomena

Front 20

Mechanistic Models

Back 20

something confusing/ can be understood by examining workings of its individual parts and how they go together

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Grand theory

Back 21

Theory of general explanation of society of human experience

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Law of reciprocity

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receive in the way you give

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Ethnography

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science that studies different cultures and groups

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Hierarchy of meaning

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How people coordinate/ manage meaning through communication

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Social Penetration theory

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as relations develop communication moves from shallow to intimate over time.

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Rhetorical Theory

Back 26

how meanings of words can change someone’s mind through provision

Front 27

Behavioral Theory

Back 27

study of people’s tendency to express feeling, thoughts, etc. by means of indirect behavioural impacts.

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Interpretive approach

Back 28

Linguistic work of assigning meaning of value to communicative texts, assuming that multiple meanings are possible

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Rule of Parsimony

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Principle according to which an explanation of anything or event is made with fewest possible assumptions

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Expectancy violations theory

Back 30

Way people use space and perceptions of how others use space can influence messages vs meaning

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Violation Valence

Back 31

perceived pos/ neg value assigned to breach expectations regardless of violator