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1
The self consists of:
The Me and the Mind
The I and the Me
The Mind and the Self
The I and the Mind
2
__suggests humans have an
essence
while__argues that self is
built
through social interactions
Mead; Burke
Burke; Fisher
Fisher; Burke
Burke; Mead
3
Which of the following is NOT an assumption of the narrative paradigm?
We make decisions largely because of good reasons
A story is accepted on the basis of coherence and fidelity
Life is a set of logical relationships that we can discover
A compelling story is the basis of our beliefs and actions
4
Telling your friend about the new job you received after graduation is an example of
Acquiring Mind
Interpersonal Communication
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Intrapersonal Communication
5
According to Walter Fisher,
coherence
means:
All of the above
The characters and actions are credible
The story makes sense
The story is internally consistent
6
Which theorist was interested in creating a distinction between symbols and referents?
I.A. Richards
George Herbert Mead
Kenneth Burke
Alfred Korzybski
7
According to George Herbert Mead personal identity is?
Something one is born with it
Taught in school
Developed through interaction with others
Not influenced by one’s social experiences
8
Which of the following
best
describes
theories
theories are objective
theories represents individual(s) point of view(s)
theories are impartial and incompatible
all theories include a pursuit for positive social change
9
Under the 4 goals of theories, what is
prediction
concerned with?
Prediction is not a goal of theories
How a phenomenon will act under certain conditions
How a theorist can explain a phenomenon with clarity
How a theory can generate insight into a certain phenomenon
10
Two friends are debating whether or not humans have free will. What are they concerned with?
Internal Validity
Epistemology
External Validity
Ontology
11
If I believe a story because I identify with how a character behaves, this is evidence of what?
Fidelity
Credibility
Coherence
Internal logic
12
Fisher's Narrative Theory says that:
We understand experience best through narratives
We can be persuaded only by logic and evidence
We make up stories to persuade others to do things
Humans are fundamentally irrational animals
13
Which of the following does NOT contribute to one’s "field of experience"?
a) Values
Someone else’s experience
Personal experience
Beliefs
14
Burke defines ___ broadly to include any type of tension, shame, disgust, or other bad feeling
Substance
Identification
Guilt
Victimage
15
According to General Semantics what is one way an individual can avoid misunderstandings?
Avoid communicating with others
Indexing
Communicate with people who have a similar experiences
Have an intensional orientation
16
Which of the following is a critique of the Shannon-Weaver Model?
The model was complex & difficult for any practical use
The model was too dated
It was created by a scientist & engineer, not a COMS scholar
The model misrepresents communication as a linear process.
17
While “old rhetoric” emphasized persuasion, Burke believed that the “new rhetoric” emphasized:
Substance
Drama
Victimage
Identification
18
When a theory is
heuristic
it means:
It is as simple as possible
it helps develop new thought
It provides a causal explanation
It is very useful
19
If I believe that rationality is evaluated by knowledge and reason, my worldview is this:
The scientific logic paradigm
The new world order paradigm
The modernist paradigm
The rational world paradigm
20
Seeing one’s self through how others see them is referred to as the?
Field of Experience
Looking glass self
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Mind
21
Which example of the ladder of abstraction is correct from least abstract to most abstract?
A lifestyle, Kim Kardashian, business, reality tv celebrity
A business, lifestyle, reality tv celebrity, Kim Kardashian
A lifestyle, business, reality tv celebrity, Kim Kardashian
Kim Kardashian, reality tv celebrity, business, a lifestyle
22
Which of the following best describes the rational world paradigm?
Storytellers ration out the information they give
People are basically rational beings
Only rational people can tell a story
Stories have to be rational, so fantasies are not stories
23
Anna's explanation for a missed class “My dog has chewed my shoes" is an example of:
Attitude
Victimage
Scapegoating
Mortification
24
Ray's hosting what he hopes to be the best dinner but burns the turkey.He's frustrated.Concept?
The Negative
Perfection
Hierarchy
Consubstantiality
25
Particular others include which of the following?
Family
The Media
Social group
An acquaintance
26
Feedforwarding means
Being persuasive in the way one communicates
Consider how a msg will be received after communicating
Reflecting on past communication
Consider how a msg will be received prior to communicating
27
Which of the following theories is critiqued for not taking self-esteem into consideration:
Narrative Theory
General Semantics
Dramatism
Symbolic Interactionism
28
“The more hours you study for a test, the better grade you’ll earn.” This correlation is
a type of law-based explanation
a type of parsimonious explanations
a type of rule-based explanation
None of the above
29
In Narrative Theory,
fidelity
refers to which of the following?
The story corresponds to the listeners' own beliefs
The story can be questioned by the listeners
More than one person is telling the story
The listeners can clearly hear the story being told
30
Which concept is not the part of the dramatistic pentad?
Act
Attitude
Agent
Agency
31
When someone considers how someone else may not share the same meaning, they have an______?
Outward Orientation
Individual Orientation
Intensional Orientation
Extensional Orientation
32
Kenneth Burke called the practice of blaming ourselves in order to purge guilt:
victimage
mortification
agency
scapegoating
33
Dramatistic pentad is an analytical method that allows us to:
Understand motives of the speakers
All of the above
Overcome a miscommunication
Get rid of the guilt
34
Which of the following theories are highly heuristic?
Dramatism, Symbolic Interactionism, General Semantics
General Semantics, Dramatism, Narrative Theory
Symbolic Interactionism, Narrative Theory, General Semantics
Narrative Theory, Dramatism, Symbolic Interactionism
35
The sentence "Information, reason and sound arguments rule our choices" describes:
The basis of Narrative Theory
The rational world paradigm
The foundation for all communication
The three pillars of narrative logic
36
Brute facts represent objective phenomena. Institutional facts are:
What those brute facts mean in culture
Ways of testing brute facts
What brute facts effect as change
Subjective interpretations of brute facts
37
Which
best
describes "meaning" in Wood's definition of communication
It is not intrinsic to experience; it is a social construct
Involves knowing what there is to know
Something we used to represent a thing;
involves interrelated parts that affect one another
38
Feeling badly about stealing food to feed one’s family stems from this concept in dramatism:
Negative
Identification
Hierarchy
Perfection
39
Which of the following would constitute "good reasons" for accepting or rejecting a story?
The speaker's popularity, speaking skills and success
History with the speaker, shared culture and character
The speaker's status, self-confidence and reputation
Mutual friends, shared religion and being a co-worker
40
The "P" is SHUT-P stands for
Perspicuity
Plausibility
Prominence
Parsimony
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Narrative Theory was a "shift" from what to what?
Rational world paradigm to narrative paradigm
Dramatism theory to narrative theory
Rational storytelling to irrational storytelling
The act of storytelling to acting out stories