Communication Theory Final Exam Review F21

The physical form of the sign as we perceive it through our senses; an image

Socially constructed systems of terms, meanings, & premises, w/ rules og comm known to a group- outsiders don’t know

Positive or negative anecdotes about others in the organization -- description of how things “really work.”

Study of the social production of meaning from sign systems; the analysis of anything that can stand for something else

Communication about communication

A era of instant communication; a return to the global village with all-at-once sound and touch

Expectations about behavior that members of a community feel should (or should not) occur in particular situations

Personal information that only you know

The other concerned facework strategy used to defend and support another person’s need for inclusion

What are objective of scientific knowledge?

The concept “SIP” associates best with which of the following?

A communication strategy of accentuating the differences between you and another person

A lawyer ensuring a client that his or her information would not be exposed -- refers to the law of ethics

Symbolic explosion of lively agreement within a group in response to a member’s dramatizing message - message extensions

People w/ little power -trouble voicing perceptions bc they re-encode thoughts to make them understood in public sphere

Research to support for the notion that: more time watching TV are more likely to see the “real world” through TV lens

The degree of disclosure in a specific area of an individual’s life

Stakeholder democracy-all stakeholders within an organization negotiate power and openly reach collaborative decisions

The objective self -- the image of self seen when one takes the role of the other

Encroachment of modern corporations into every area of life outside the workplace

Interpreting an ongoing sequence of events by labeling one event as the cause and the following event as the response is

Belief human behavior & relationships are caused by difference in financial resources and the disparity in power

The study of different personal and social environments created by the use of different communication technologies

Which of the following affects communicating on your own time in cmc?

When people seek to maximize their benefits and minimize their costs

Reoccurring content of a fantasy

Hofstede- the extent to which people feel threatened by ambiguity and create beliefs and institutions to try to avoid it

The composite mental image that a person has of him or herself based upon societal expectations and responses

The word a speaker uses that sums up all that is regarded as bad or evil

Regarding the definition of communication, what kind of process characterizes communication?

Wherein people look out for themselves and their immediate families; i-identity; a low context culture

Operating outside the employees’ awareness, a form discourse that restricts what can be said or even considered

Sequence of speech acts that are held together by story

For the elderly, a face saving strategy that invokes age as a reason for not performing well

The media does not tell you what to think, but what to think about

According to the uses and gratifications theory: Why do people use the media?

Scholarship that goes behind the scenes of media organizations trying to understand what policies/practices lurking

Imaginative language by a group member describing past, future, or outside events

The range of ideas that a person views as reasonable or worthy of consideration

Mainstreaming is characterized best by which of the following answers?

Edward Hall’s term for the study of people’s use of space as a special elaboration of culture is

Starting research from the lives of marginalized groups, which provides a less false view of reality

Publicly urging others to believe or do something that is opposed to what the advocate actually believes

Creative & imaginative shared interpretation of events that fulfills a group’s psychological or rhetorical needs

The typical monologic style of men that seeks to command attention, convey information, and win arguments

Clark and Delia’s study of school children demonstrates that

The range of ideas that a person views as neither acceptable or objectionable

The distressing mental state caused by inconsistency between a person’s two beliefs or a belief and an action

Setting, time and place, context, situation

Mental frameworks that classes & social groups use to make sense of the way society works

A converation between two friends, and a conversation between a manager and an employee - which axiom of communication

What is the term for the study of how we know what we know?

What method is used when survey data is recorded in numerical form?

Information processing, feedback, and control in communication systems

Nonverbal and verbal signs -- how their interpretation impacts society

“You tell me your dream; I will tell you mine” is an example of what?

Creating an argument (no expansion or enhancement, and no abstract cues)

As a person’s ability to predict behavior increases, uncertainty

I know my friend is serious about being a vegetarian because she is an active member of PETA.

Which of the following associates with self-fulfilling prophecy in cmc?

Immersing oneself in a culture as a researcher for the purpose of recording meaning, mapping out social discourse...

When focussing on an aspect of reality to make things clear. What image?

When a story hangs together -- story has its own sense of logic

Subjective self - spontaneous driving force that fosters all that is novel - unpredictable and unorganizaed in the self

Symbolic trigger that sets off group members to respond as they did when they first shared the fantasy -inside joke

Sharing secrets with a friend

What are aspects of the scientific method?

Careful systematic study of television content, usually employing content analysis as a research method

Communicator reward valence is

A record of the intertwined layers of common meaning that underlie what a particular people say and do

A place from which to critically view the world around us

Immerses into a group -- listens and records in a natural setting

Classification scheme that attempts to sort a large number of specific instances into more manageable set of categories

Texts that articulate multiple aspects of cultural life -- often marking rites of passage or life transitions

When considering rationality

When discussion is about the future

When one’s life is written by outside or preset forces -- what is the term used?

Communicators’ predisposition to focus on either their individual identity or group identity during a conversation

In Kramarae’s theory, who has had the power to name experience throughout history?

When discussion is about the past

When selected aspects are chosen to box a view of reality

Collaborative decision making; participatory democracy in the workplace

The heroes and the villains

Factors that can lead to boudary turbulence

The theory that asserts that humans are essentially storytellers

Range of ideas that a persons views as unreasonable or objectionable

Art of using the available means of persuasion -- using lines of argument, emotion, and credibility

Perceived rewards and costs of a relationship associates with which of the following?

A systematic logic and set of routine practices and ideology that values control over all other concerns

Perception and evaluation of an idea by comparing with a current attitude

2+ private symbol worlds incline toward each other, come more closely together, or even overlap; group consciousness

Requirement that scientific theory must be stated in a way that can be tested

Prominent issues as set forth by news makers

What is the descriptive characteristic of Tannen’s genderlect styles?

The self concerned facework strategy used to preverve autonomy and defend against loss of personal freedom

What is the rule of parsimony?

Rubberband effect-draws an idea closer toward a person’s anchor so it seems that the person & the speaker share opinions

The general premise of uncertainty reduction theory is which of the following?

Where and when the act was performed -- context, situation

Continually crafted through communication -- image, who you are to others