Comm Theory - Chapter 1

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communication

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A social process in which individuals employ symbols to establish and interpret meaning in their environment

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Five key terms in our perspective are:

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social, process, symbols, meaning, and environment

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social:

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The notion that people and interactions are part of the communication process

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process:

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Ongoing, dynamic, and unending occurrence

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symbol:

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Arbitrary label given to a phenomenon

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concrete symbol:

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Symbol representing an object

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abstract symbol:

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Symbol representing an idea or thought

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meaning:

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What people extract from a message

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environment:

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Situation or context in which communication occurs

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The environment's elements:

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Time, place, historical period, relationship, and a speaker’s and listener’s cultural backgrounds.

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Palo Alto team:

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A group of scholars who believed that a person “ cannot not communicate”

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models:

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Simplified repre-sentations of the communication process

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Linear Model of Communication:

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One- way view of communication that assumes a message is sent by a source to a receiver through a channel

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source:

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Originator of a message

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Message:

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Words, sounds, actions, or gestures in an interaction

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Receiver:

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Recipient of a message

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Channel:

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Pathway to communication

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Noise:

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Distortion in channel not intended by the source

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Semantic Noise:

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Linguistic influences on reception of message

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Physical ( external) noise:

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Bodily influences on reception of message

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Psychological noise:

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Cognitive influences on reception of message

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Physiological noise:

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Biological influences on reception of message

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Interactional model of communication:

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View of communication as the sharing of meaning with feedback that links source and receiver

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Feedback:

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Communication given to the source by the receiver to indicate understanding ( meaning)

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Field of experience:

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Overlap of sender’s and receiver’s culture, experiences, and heredity in communication

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Transactional model of communication:

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View of communi-cation as the simultaneous sending and receiving of messages

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Ethics:

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Perceived rightness or wrongness of an action or behavior

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Models of communication:

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The linear model, the interactional model, and the transactional model.

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When the text states that conversations change from one era to another, this reflects which element of the communication process?

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Process

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According to communication researcher Frank Dance, which of the following represents the processual nature of communication?

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Spiral

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Which model of communication is based on research by Shannon and Weaver which suggests that information transmission is passed from one person to another?

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Linear

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A person's background, including his or her culture, life experiences, and heredity is called:

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Field of experience

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Listening to bigoted comments made by another person represents which of the following elements of the communication process?

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Psychological noise