Exam 1 Perspectives In Communication

Front 1

Strom identified five major questions that drive the objectivist model of communication. Name them.

Back 1

WHO is the sender?

Said WHAT?

By what channel?

To WHOM?

With What effect?

Front 2

The interpretivist model of communication operates backwards to that of the objectivist model.

Back 2

False

Front 3

The interpretists believe in __________, the idea that a word, speech, or film might be understood variously.

Back 3

Polysemy

Front 4

Covenantal communication recognizes us as persons-in-community more than individual selves.

Back 4

True

Front 5

The Indo-European roots for the word communication are ko and mei. What do they mean?

Back 5

Ko-together Mei-change

Front 6

What do we call an agreement between two or more people who agree to standards of behavior regardless of others' actions? Such an agreement is designed for everyone's mutual benefit.

Back 6

A covenant

Front 7

Covenantal communication allows us to remain as we are.

Back 7

False

Front 8

Covenantal communication requires responsible symbolic expression.

Back 8

True

Front 9

Covenental Communication is motivated for our steadfast ----- for one another

Back 9

love

Front 10

A word is said to be [ ] when it has two or more legitimate meanings

Back 10

Equivocal

Front 11

The Bible testifies that God, while not concerned with exact words, is concerned with the overall emotional effect of communication.

Back 11

False

Front 12

What kind of flawed speech act involves polar ideas that color something or someone in terms that does not allow any middle ground?

Back 12

Dichotomies

Front 13

The denotative meaning of a word reveals the emotional meaning we put behind the idea.

Back 13

False

Front 14

What kind of flawed speech act involves substituting mild or less emotional words for blunt ones?

Back 14

Euphemism

Front 15

Glossolalia is:

Back 15

Speaking in tongues

Front 16

The bible encourages storytelling as an effective means of communication.

Back 16

True

Front 17

What kind of gesture is a bodily display of emotion?

Back 17

Affect Displays

Front 18

What does vocalics include?

Back 18

Pitch, volume, rate, quality of voice, and Disinfluences such as "um" and "y'know"

Front 19

What kind of gestures are habits that give release to nervous tension (for example, nervous gestures)?

Back 19

Adapters

Front 20

Verbal messages tend to be multi-channeled and received in mosaic simultaneously, while nonverbal messages tend to be single-channeled and received one at a time.

Back 20

False

Front 21

What kind of gesture accompanies our words and helps make sense of conversation in context?

Back 21

Illustrators

Front 22

Verbal Messages are more ambiguous while nonverbal messages tend to be clear.

Back 22

False

Front 23

Eye behavior is understood within in cultural context and is based on ---- and -----.

Back 23

location and duration

Front 24

What kind of gesture has a precise verbal equivalent?

Back 24

Emblems

Front 25

Verbal Messages are discrete while nonverbal Messages are continuous.

Back 25

True

Front 26

What are we practicing when we know, feel and genuinely how our emotions?

Back 26

congruence

Front 27

What do we call the habit of comparing ourselves to others around us and judging ourselves accordingly?

Back 27

Social Comparison

Front 28

When it comes to developing our identify, it is best to think in terms of individual selves rather than people groups

Back 28

False

Front 29

What do we call our generalized sense of personal worth?

Back 29

Self Esteem

Front 30

What do we call the picture that we hold of ourselves?

Back 30

self Image

Front 31

According to Strom, we organize the factors that define who we are into a single identity.

Back 31

True

Front 32

People with low self esteem rarely take other's opinions into real consideration.

Back 32

Fasle

Front 33

Which "umpire" or Christian scholar believes that a single, stable reality is knowable through reason or science?

Back 33

The objectivist

Front 34

Objective ___________ is the idea that the social, physical and spiritual worlds are a certain way regardless of how we try to express them.

Back 34

Realism

Front 35

According to Strom, all art depicts some worldview.

Back 35

True

Front 36

What kind of humanities research involves careful and deliberate interpretation of texts?

Back 36

Hermeneutics

Front 37

Which umpire/Scholar believes that truth and reality are created as we speak it into existence?

Back 37

The constructivist

Front 38

Which umpire/scholar believes that the pursuit of truth is an subjective affair?

Back 38

The subjectivist

Front 39

-------- Is the idea that humanism that people, not God are the measure of all things.

Back 39

Secular Humanism

Front 40

----- Is the humanities research that involves immersing one's self in a culture in order to learn about it.

Back 40

Ethanography

Front 41

Objective ---- is the idea that we can use scientific methods to examine reality with out a bias.

Back 41

Methodism

Front 42

What is the view that what is true and right for one culture is best understood relative to its world view and assumptions?

Back 42

Cultural Relativity

Front 43

What is the school of thought that suggests we don't have free will but only react to forces around us?

Back 43

Determinism

Front 44

What is the habit of switching our vocab or style of talk for different audiences called?

Back 44

Codeswitching

Front 45

What are social guidelines for showing emotion?

Back 45

Display Rules

Front 46

What are gestures that guide the flow of conversation, such as nodding?

Back 46

Regulators

Front 47

What is the study of how we use personal space around us?

Back 47

Proxemics