COMM TEST 1

Question 1

What is communication

Answer 1

Communication is the process through
which “people use messages to generate
meanings within and across contexts,
cultures, channels, and media.”

Question 2

Linear Communication

Answer 2

The “Sender” sends a message to the “receiver” and that’s it.

Question 3

Interactive Communication

Answer 3

Sender sends a message and the receiver gives them feedback.
Feedback EX: What does that mean?

Question 4

Transactional Communication

Answer 4

Both parties are communicators and are equally exchanging information with feedback

Question 5

What is Interpersonal Communication?

Answer 5

Its a dynamic form of communication when the messages exchanged influence someone’s thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and relationships.

Question 6

Interpersonal I-Thou

Answer 6

Treating people as people

Question 7

Impersonal I-It

Answer 7

Treating people as their role rather than as people

Question 8

What is Meta-Communication

Answer 8

Communication about communication

Question 9

Self Concept is?

Answer 9

Who I think I am

Question 10

Self Esteem is

Answer 10

How do I feel about who I am

Question 11

What is Perception?

Answer 11

The process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting information from our senses

Question 12

Passive Perception vs Active Perception

Answer 12

Passive: Happens fast without to much thought
Active: Perception you do on purpose..with thought

Question 13

Selection is when..?

Answer 13

We focus our attention on something specific

Question 14

Selective Attention

Answer 14

Ignoring other things for something specific

Question 15

Selective Exposure

Answer 15

choosing to put ourselves in situations and places that align with out beliefs/attitudes

Question 16

Selective Recall

Answer 16

Choosing what memories to remember and which ones to forget

Question 17

Selective Thin Slicing

Answer 17

Taking one piece of a person and using that to generalize who they are

Question 18

What does Salient mean?

Answer 18

The degree in which something is important to you in that moment

Question 19

What does Organization mean? (In comm context)

Answer 19

Selecting things and making a conclusion with the given information and our own PERSONAL bias

Question 20

What is Interpretation?

Answer 20

Organized information

Question 21

Perception Influences

Answer 21

The assumption we make based on our values, beliefs, and attitudes

Question 22

Internal Attributions vs External Attributions

Answer 22

Internal: That’s just how someone is
External: Maybe an outside force just caused them to act that way

Question 23

Fundamental attribution error

Answer 23

Blaming someone’s actions on internal things when its actually external things.

Question 24

Self-serving bias

Answer 24

Taking credit for success and blaming bad traits on external things.

Question 25

Self-enhancement bias

Answer 25

Blaming someones actions on inteneral things when its actually external things.

Question 26

Gestalt

Answer 26

a quick positive or negative mental picture of someone

Question 27

Algebraic Impression

Answer 27

Carefully evaluating each new thing we learn about a person

Question 28

Halo vs Horn Effect

Answer 28

Halo: Can do no wrong without external causes Horn: Can do no good without internal benefits.

Question 29

Implicit personality theory

Answer 29

Taking traits and equaling them to other traits without 100% correlation.

Question 30

Uncertainty reduction

Answer 30

Trying to find information to disprove a negative thing you notice about someone you like.

Question 31

Emotion is..?

Answer 31

Involving physiological arousal

Question 32

Moods are..?

Answer 32

low intensity state that typically last longer than feelings or emotions

Question 33

Feelings are..?

Answer 33

“Small emotions” Short term that generate only limited arousal.

Question 34

Emotional intelligence is...?

Answer 34

the ability to interpret your own and other's emotions accurately.

Question 35

Reappraisal

Answer 35

Changing how you think about situations so that their emotional impact is changed

Question 36

Culture is..?

Answer 36

is an established, coherent set of beliefs, attitudes, values, and practices shared by a large group of people

Question 37

Assimilation

Answer 37

Suppress to fit in

Question 38

Accommodation

Answer 38

Represent for acceptance

Question 39

Separation

Answer 39

Distance to challenge

Question 40

Ingroupers vs Outgroups

Answer 40

Ingroup: People with similar cultures that you assume are similar to you. Outgroup:

Question 41

Salience is..?

Answer 41

The degree to which particular people or aspects of their communication attract our attention