Statistics for Communications 101- Final study guide

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Definition	Term	% Correct
Listening style that reflects a preference for error free and well organized speaking	Action	100%
Gestures used to control	Adaptors	100%
The clothing and other accessories they choose	Artifacts	100%
Theory that explains the primary forces that draw people together	Attraction theory	100%
Explanation of the process we use to judge our own and others' behaviors	Attribution	100%
The process of determining what the audience already knows or wants to know about a topic, who they are, what they know or need to know about the speaker, and what their expectations might be for the presentation	Audience analysis	100%
The study of he way people use time as a message	Chronemics	100%
A significant minority group within a dominent majority that does not share dominant group values or communication patterns	Cocultural groups	100%
The practice of changing language or dialect to accomodate to the communication situation	Code switching	100%
The process by which historical events influence the perceptions of people who grew up in a given generation and time period	Cohort effect	100%
A value orientation that stresses the needs of the group	Collectivistic orientation	100%
The standard of right and wrong that one applies to messages that are sent	Communication ethics	100%
Review the points, and a challenge the audience to act are included in a good:	Conclusion	100%
Comments that validate positive self-images of others	Confirming communication	100%
The affective or interpretive meaning attached to a word	Connotative meaning	100%
Oriented listening skills that reflects an interest in detailed attention to content	Content	100%
Listening skills that are useful in a wide variety of situations- particularly those involving persuasive speaking	Critical Listening	100%
The portion of an audience analysis that considers the ages, races, sexes, sexual orientation, religions and social class of the audience	Demographic Analysis	100%
Dictionary, or literal meaning of a word	Denotative meaning	100%
Comments that reject or invalidate a positive or negate self image of our conversational partners	Disconfirming communication	100%
Standars of what is right and wrong, good or bad, moral and immoral	Ethics	100%
Assessing your reaction to a message	Evaluating	100%
The collection of roles, rules, norms, beliefs and attitudes endorsed by the community in which a person lives	Generalized other	100%
Whichever of the three goals- to inform,persuade, or entertain- dominates a speach	General Purpose	100%
Nonverbal communication made with part of the body, including actions such as pointing, waving or holding up a hand to direct people's attention	Gestures	100%
Thesis, statement of importance, how you are qualified to give a speech are all elements to:	Give a good speech	100%
The distaste and aversion that people feel towards working in a group	Group hate	100%
The shared expectations group members have regarding each individuals communication behavior in the group	Group roles	100%
A negative group process characterized by "escessive concurrence thinking"	Group think	100%
The study of the communicative functions of touch	Haptics	100%
Use of verbal communication to attack others based on some social category	Hate speech	100%
4	Heuristic	100%
process in which people generate meaning through the exchange of verbal and nonverbal messages	Human communication	100%
Who a person is, composed of individual and social category a person identifies with, as well as the categories that others identify with that person	Identity	100%
Signals that accompany speech to clarify oremphasize the verbal meaning	Illustrators	100%
How close or involved people appear to be with each other	Immediacy	100%
A value orientation that respects the authority and independence of individuals	Individualist orientation	100%
Roles that focus more on the individuals interests than the groups	Individual roles	100%
3	Inform	100%
Functions of language	inform	100%
Listening style that reflects a preference for error free and well organized speaking	Informational Listening	100%
1	Instrumental	100%
5	Interactional	100%
Communication that occurs in interactions between people who are culturally different	Intercultural communications	100%
Needs between a group	Interpersonal needs	100%
Nonverbal communication sent by the body including gestures, posture, movement, facial expressions and eye behavior	Kinesics	100%
The way people lead directly affects the outcome	Leadership style theory	100%
The process of recieving, constructing meaning from, and responding to spoken and/or nonverbal messages	Listening	100%
A set of attitudes, beliefs and predispositions about the how, when, where, who and what of the information receiving and encoding process	Listening style	100%
The dimension of a society's value orientation that reflects its attitude towards virtue and truth	Long term vs. short term orientation	100%
the idea that self image results from the image others reflect back to an idea	Looking-glass self	100%
The tendency to develop relationships with people who are approximately as attractive as we are	Matching hypothesis	100%
Distinct, organized means of expression that consists of symbols and rules for their use	Nonverbal codes	100%
Nonverbal behavior that has symbolic meaning	Nonverbal communication	100%
Chronological, spatial, topic, problem- solution, cause-effect patterns	Organization patterns	100%
All aspects of spoken language except for the words themselves, includes rate, volume, pitch and stress	Paralinguistics	100%
The important people in an individual's life whose opinions and behaviors influence the various aspects of identity	Particular others	100%
A listening style that is associated with friendly, open communication and an interest in establishing ties with others	People- oriented listening	100%
The process of selection, organization, and interpretation that we use to understand the information we collect through our senses; what we see, hear, yaste, smell and touch	Perception	100%
6	Personal language	100%
A value orientation that refers to the extent to which less powerful members of institutions and organizations within a culture expect and accept an unequal distribution of power	Power distance	100%
Experiencing aversive or negative feelings towards a group as a whole or toward an individual because she or he belongs to a group	Prejudice	100%
The study of how people use spatial cues, including interpersonal distance, territoriality, and other space relationships to communicate	Proxemics	100%
the idea that people's self-images arise primarily from the many messages they have received from others about who they are	Reflected appraisals	100%
Gestures used to control conversations	Regulators	100%
2	Regulatory	100%
Contradictions in personal relationships	Relational dialects	100%
Behaviors that couples perform that help maintain their relationships	Relational maintenance	100%
Roles that help establish a group's social atmosphere	Relational roles	100%
Showing others how you regard their message	Responding	100%
The understanding of one's unique characteristics as well as the similarities to, and differences from others	Self-concept	100%
Part of one's self concept arises out of how one perceives and interprets reflected appraisals and social comparisons	Self-esteem	100%
When an individual expects something to occur, the expectation increases the likelihood that it will,as the expectation influences behavior	Self-fulfilling	100%
Treating others and expecting to be treated with respect and dignity	Self-respect	100%
Be aware that something is the case without being able to define exactly how one knows	Sensing	100%
Communicatio among a small number of people that share a common interest or goal	Small group communication	100%
Theory that explains the development and longevity of relationships as a result of indivuals ability to maximize the rewards and minimized the costs of their relationship	Social penetration theory	100%
What the speaker wants to inform or persuade an audience about, or the type of feelings the speaker wants to envoke	Specific purpose	100%
Process in which reminding individuals of stereotypical expectations regarding important identities can impact their performance	Stereotype threat	100%
Creating schemes that over generalized attributes of a specific group	Stereotyping	100%
Information that supports the speaker's ideas	Supporting materials	100%
Listening skills focused not only on understanding information but also "listening" to others feelings	Supportive listening	100%
Communication occurred when a sender encoded a message that was sent to a receiver who decoded it. then the process is reversed.	Synergetic Model	100%
Roles that help establish a groups social atmosphere	Task roles	100%
A statement of the topic of a speech and the speaker's position on it	Thesis Statement	100%
Listening style that prefers belief, concise speech	Time-oriented listening	100%
Model of relationship development in which couples move both towards and away from commitment over the course of their relationship	Turning point model	100%
Understanding the messages associated with sounds or what the sounds mean	Understanding	100%