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48 Cards in this Set
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Communication Competence
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The ability to exchange information effectively.
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Communication
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The ability to communicate.
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Communications
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The sources we use to communicate (i.e. Media, Telephone, Internet, Texting, Newspapers, etc.)
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Ethics
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An individual's system of basic morals.
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Plagiarism
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The use of another person's information, language, or ideas without citing the originator and making it appear that the user is the originator.
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Process
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Something that involves a series of actions that have no beginning or end and is constantly changing. (i.e. the weather)
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System
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A combination or parts interdependently acting to form a while. (i.e. the human body)
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Interaction
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An exchange of communication in which people take turns sending and receiving messages.
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Transaction
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Extending the concept of interaction to include simultaneous actions. (encoding and decoding messages; conversation.)
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Intentional Communication
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A message that is purposely sent to the specific receiver.
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Unintentional communication
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A message that is not intended to be sent or was not intended for the individual to received it.
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Encoding
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When a source has chosen meaning. Person translate thoughts or feelings into words, sounds, and physical expressions to make up the message that is to be sent.
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Interference
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Anything that changed the meaning of an intended message. (too much makeup on speaker's face, loud music,)
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Channel
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The route by which messages flow between sources and receivers. (light waves and sound waves in television. magazines, newspapers, etc.)
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Receiver
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Analyzes and interprets messages, in effect translating them into meaning.
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Decoding
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Translating messages into meaning.
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Feedback
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The response to a message that a receiver sends back to a source. Feedback enables a sender to determine wether the communication has been received and understood as intended.
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Environment
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The psychological and physical surroundings in which communication occurs. The environment encompasses the attitudes, feelings, perceptions, and relationships.
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Context
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The broad circumstances or situation in which communication occurs. The number or people, the type of communication, and the situation in which he communication occurs.
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Intrapersonal
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The process of understand information within ourself.
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Interpersonal Communication
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Creating and sharing meaning between persons who are in a relationship. (helps us solve problems, resolve conflicts, understand our perception of self and others, establish relationships with others.)
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Dyadic
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The exchange of information between two people.
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Small group
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The exchange of information among a relatively small number of people, ideally five to seven, who share a common purpose, such as completing a task, solving a problem, making a decision, or sharing information.
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Public communication
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A message is transmitted from one person who speak to a number of individuals who listen.
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Mediated communication
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Any communication that is transmitted by some kind of mechanistic means, such as radio, television, telephone, or the Internet; it may be one-on-one communication.
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Mass communication
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Someone communicating with or to a large number of people. (radio, magazine, television, books, etc.)
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Repertoire
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A range of communication behaviors from which to choose.
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Perception
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Selecting, organizing, and interpreting information in order to give personal meaning to the communication we receive.
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Cognitive complexity
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Explain how our minds process and store simple to complex information.
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Selective exposure
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The deliberate choices we make to experience or to avoid experiencing particular stimuli. (avoid purchasing CDs or movies due to vulgar or sexual content)
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Selective attention
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Focusing on specific stimuli while ignoring or downplaying other stimuli. (blocking out background noise or distractions to pay attention on what we are doing)
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Selective retention
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Occurs when we process, store, and retrieve information that we have already selected, organized, and interpreted. (remembering the good parts of something and forgetting the bad)
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Organization
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Categorizing stimuli in our environment to make sense of them.
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Closure
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Another way to organize stimuli; to fill in missing pieces and to extend lines in order to finish or complete figures. (Picturing something in the sky that really isn't that something - a rabbit in the clouds; this makes closure for ourselves)
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Proximity
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The grouping or two or more stimuli that are close to one another, based on the assumption that because objects or people appear together, they are basically the same. Not always true.
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Similarity
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the organization that involves the Grouping of stimuli that resemble one another in size, shape, color, or other traits. (same baseball cap color=same team) not always true.
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Interpretation
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The assigning of meaning to stimuli.
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Perceptual Set
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Ignoring new information and instead solely relying on past experiences - fixed, previously determined views of events, objects, and people - to interpret information.
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Stereotyping
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Refers to the categorizing of events, objects, and people without regard to unique individual characteristics and qualities.
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Attribution
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The complex process through which we attempt to understand the reasons behind others' behaviors.
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Attribution error
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When we perceive others are acting as they do because they are "that type of person" rather than because of any external factors that may have influenced their behavior.
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Ethnocentric
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People who can not appreciate customs, ideas, or beliefs that differ from those of their own cultural background, and who automatically assume that their own view is superior to that of any other culture.
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Cultural myopia
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A very narrow-sighted view of other cultures, due to subconscious thought through the ways culture is taught within one's own country. "me-oriented"
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Cultural relativism
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Those who do not judge or treat other as inferior because they are or different culture or any other aspect; they strive to learn more about others. "we-oriented"
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Self-concept
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Self-identity; our perceived self, which consists of an organized collection of beliefs and attitudes about self. Who we perceive ourselves to be is determined by our experiences and communication with others, the roles and values we have selected for ourselves, and how we believe other see us.
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Self-view
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How we see ourselves; our mental picture of self. (see myself as creative, daughter, sister, musician, etc.)
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Self-esteem
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Feelings and attitudes toward ourselves or how we evaluate ourselves. (I feel I am a gifted musician, good daughter, loving sister, etc.)
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Self-fulfilling prophecy
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Expectations we have for ourselves or that other have for us that become a powerful force of shaping our self-concept. What we are to become.
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