Vocab

Question 1

The exchange of verbal and nonverbal messages with the intent of stimulating particular meanings in the minds of others

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Communication

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Stimulates The meanings we intend in the minds of others

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Understanding

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Communication between and among people and groups across national, ethnic, and other cultural boundaries

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Intercultural Communication

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A psychological process in which the sender of a message assign symbols (such as word sounds or gestures) to his or her thoughts and feelings

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Encoding

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A receiver asssigns meaning to the message that has been communicated

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Decoding

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Any auditory, visual, or psychological distraction that interferes with the sending and receiving of a message

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Noise

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A verbal or nonverbal message that a receiver provides to the sender as they perceive and assign meaning to the sender’s message

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Feedback

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Feedback, along with consideration of the factors that make accurate decoding of messages difficult, turns the linear model into what?

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Transactional model

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The environment and situation in which communication occurs

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Context

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Clearly defined and specialized functions that each member of the team possesses

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Roles

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Formal expectations that guide team members interactions with one another as well as their task performance

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Rules

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States that we will attend to information that reinforces existing beliefs and disregard information that is at odds with our current position

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The Principle of Selective Exposure

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Illustrates how, once we engage in a particular interaction, we focus on certain information and ignore other information

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The principle of selective attention

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We remember things that we agree with rather than things that are contrary to our beliefs

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The principle of selective recall of information

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The way you define yourself.

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Self-concept

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The degree to which you approve of, value, I like the concept that you have of yourself

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Self esteem

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Involves assuming a standard, generalized profile of an individual, because he or she belongs to a group

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Stereotype

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When interpreting our own or others’ behavior, we rely on faulty explanations, reasons, or information

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Attribution Errors

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The mistake we make when we attribute the others people’s positive characteristics and successes To external, situational factors, and their negative characteristics and failures to aspects of who they are

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Fundamental Attribution Error

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Whether the communicators behavior was motivated by internal state (such as intelligence, composition, or honesty)or an extra factor (such as resources, lock, favoritism, or a situation itself)

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Locus of causation

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When we are successful, we attribute our success to some internal positive qualities (Intelligence, charm, knowledge of current events/pop-culture, persuasiveness, or competent communication). However, when we fail we blame the situation

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Self-serving bias

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The strategic development and use of verbal and nonverbal messages that result and others making conclusions about the kind of individual you are

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Self presentation

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The deliberate use of verbal and nonverbal messages to create a particular impression among others

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Impression management

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Complex hole which includes knowledge, beliefs, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capability and habit acquired by individuals as a members of society

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Culture

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Reflecting unique beliefs, with thinking, communication patterns and styles, and customs of members of particular groups that exist within the umbrella culture

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Co-cultures

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The process of the world becoming ever more connected and economic, political, organizational, and personal terms as transportation and telecommunication systems improve 

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Globalization

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Place a great deal of value on social rank and the status associated with certain occupations or political offices

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High power distance

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People tend to communicate in ways that promote equality and diminish the barriers between people that status and rank create

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Low power distance

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Values people who are assertive and speak for themselves, independent, and not reliant on others to any great extent

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Individualism

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Value their membership in their Particular in group to such an extent that they place a greater importance on the role within the group then the role as an individual. Ex: body language and eye contact

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Collectivism

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Communicators rely heavily on environmental cues and as a result implicitly understand what is being communicated

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High context communication

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Communicators are required explicit or clear verbal messages to understand a message

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Low context

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Place a great deal of value on social rank and the status associated with certain occupations or political offices

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High power distance

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People tend to communicate in ways that promote equality and diminish the barriers between people and the status and rank create

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Low power distance

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Cultures value competitiveness and achievement, even at the expense of interpersonal relationships. Direct, forceful communication is valued and appreciated

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Masculinity

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Relationships, compassion, and nurturing are high balance good. Cooperation, listening, and showing empathy are important communication skills

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Femininity

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People of these cultures tend to Like doing one thing at a time, being punctual, and concentrating fully to meet their commitments. These people rarely cancel plans, tend to be very structured in the use of time and timelines, and could be highly irritated by interruptions or delays. 

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Monochronic

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These People are flexible in terms of starting times for appointments and deadlines. They change plans and priorities easily, and the border between work and professional time and family or personal time is fluid for them.

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Polychromatic

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The belief that one’s own culture and lifestyle is superior to all others

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Ethnocentrism

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Anxious or avoidance of using new media

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Technophobic

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A device that moves messages over distance or through time so that people who are not face to face can communicate

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Medium

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Digital or network information and communication technologies that have emerged in the latter part of the 20th century

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New Media

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Digital clothes including digitalized photographs, video, or written words in which a tremendous amount of the stored in a small amount of space

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Digital Media

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The connection among devices and the people who use them

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Networking

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The skill that allows communication to figuratively stand in one another’s shoes and assume one of their social roles and perspective

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Role taking

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Communication that occurs at the same time

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Synchronous Communication

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Communication that occurs outside of constraints of time and place

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Asynchronous Communication

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Allows for the exchange of nonverbal information, emotion, and quick feedback

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Rich Media

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Reliant mostly untaxed and permit little or no exchange of affect, instant feedback, or important nonverbal cues

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Lean media

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the medium that carries the message, such as email, telephone, face-to-face communication, or a written document

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Channel

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thoughts, feelings, perceptions, assumptions, and expectations

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Attitude

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credibility of a speaker

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Ethos

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emotional appeal of a speaker

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Pathos

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logical argument presented by a speaker

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Logos

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begins with specific instances or examples and reasons to either a universal claim or another specific instance.

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Inductive Reasoning

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begins with general claims and moves to a specific instance

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Deductive Reasoning

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a classic form of deductive reasoning including a major premise, minor premise, and conclusion

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syllogism

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descriptions of the ways in which arguments can go wrong

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Fallacies

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A fallacy of inductive reasoning that comes to a general conclusion based on too few or unrepresentative examples

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Hasty generalization

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When someone presents a weak version of an argument in order to refute it and claim victory, it is as though they knock down a straw person rather than a real person

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Straw person

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Latin for “after, therefore because of,” this fallacy occurs when one event that precedes a second event is assumed to have caused the second event.

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Post hoc ergo propter hoc

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occurs when a speaker presents only two solutions to a problem, ignoring other solutions either purposefully or out of ignorance

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Forced dichotomy

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occurs when someone refutes an argument by attacking the person who presented the argument rather than the argument itself

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Ad hominem

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relies on the reputation of an expert in an unrelated field

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Appeal to misplaced authority

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a presentation designed to (a) create, (b) further, or (c) alter the audience’s factual beliefs about a topic.

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informative speech

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public speaking goal is to change someone’s opinions, attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors.

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persuasive speech

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each main point is presented in sequential or time order

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chronological

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each main point is a separate entity, all of which connect by way of the topic

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topical