COMS 201 Test One Review

When a theory is heuristic it means:

According to George Herbert Mead personal identity is?

Brute facts represent objective phenomena. Institutional facts are:

Burke defines ___ broadly to include any type of tension, shame, disgust, or other bad feeling

Two friends are debating whether or not humans have free will. What are they concerned with?

Seeing one’s self through how others see them is referred to as the?

__suggests humans have an essence while__argues that self is built through social interactions

According to Walter Fisher, coherence means:

Dramatistic pentad is an analytical method that allows us to:

Which of the following is NOT an assumption of the narrative paradigm?

“The more hours you study for a test, the better grade you’ll earn.” This correlation is

Which of the following does NOT contribute to one’s "field of experience"?

The self consists of:

Anna's explanation for a missed class “My dog has chewed my shoes" is an example of:

Which concept is not the part of the dramatistic pentad?

The sentence "Information, reason and sound arguments rule our choices" describes:

If I believe that rationality is evaluated by knowledge and reason, my worldview is this:

Ray's hosting what he hopes to be the best dinner but burns the turkey.He's frustrated.Concept?

Telling your friend about the new job you received after graduation is an example of

When someone considers how someone else may not share the same meaning, they have an______?

If I believe a story because I identify with how a character behaves, this is evidence of what?

Kenneth Burke called the practice of blaming ourselves in order to purge guilt:

Which theorist was interested in creating a distinction between symbols and referents?

Which of the following is a critique of the Shannon-Weaver Model?

Feeling badly about stealing food to feed one’s family stems from this concept in dramatism:

In Narrative Theory, fidelity refers to which of the following?

Which of the following best describes the rational world paradigm?

Narrative Theory was a "shift" from what to what?

Which of the following theories is critiqued for not taking self-esteem into consideration:

Which example of the ladder of abstraction is correct from least abstract to most abstract?

Which of the following would constitute "good reasons" for accepting or rejecting a story?

Which of the following best describes theories

Particular others include which of the following?

Under the 4 goals of theories, what is prediction concerned with?

Feedforwarding means

The "P" is SHUT-P stands for

Fisher's Narrative Theory says that:

Which of the following theories are highly heuristic?

Which best describes "meaning" in Wood's definition of communication

While “old rhetoric” emphasized persuasion, Burke believed that the “new rhetoric” emphasized:

According to General Semantics what is one way an individual can avoid misunderstandings?