COM 101 Chaps 1-3

Fundamental attribution

________ error- tendency to assume the cause of the behaviour is woth the person.

Cognitive schemata

________: mental framework that are applied when organizing information about a situation, event, person etc.

Prototype

________: idealized representation that is most representative of a category and its qualities.

Context

________: Processual communication- change in communicators relationships, the understanding of eachother, and continuing communication together over time.

Transactional

________: simultaneous and mutually influential process of encoding and decoding messages.

Subjective perception

________- uniquely constructed meaning attributed to sensed stimuli.

Distortion

________: the incorrect prioritizing of what info is essential or imp.

Active perception

________- your mind selects, organizes, and interprets that which you sense.

Perception

________- the process by which we make sense of the world around us.

Omission

________: inaccurate perception of events due to not selecting an important piece of information for processing.

Cognitive

________- the sorting, organizing, and interpreting of our senses.

Physiological process

________- receiving info through our senses of sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell.

Psychological internal

________- might affect one of the senses which will impact ability of message to be sent and received.

communicators

A+B: ________ who interact in cyclical patterns of information sharing (I1)

Code

________: the form and means in which it was conveyed (eg- body language, gestures etc)

Scripts

________: a cognitive framework for an event or action.

Ethos

________- a persons character.

Intensity

________: thinger are particularly strong or extreme versions of a phenomenon.

E1

________- perception of the event through objective and subjective interpretation.

unfamilar settings

Context- perceived rules, norms, and principles that govern our behaviour in the short and long term, in familiar and ________.

Knowledge

________: communicator needs to be knowledgeable in the subject.

Feedback

________: response to a message.

Oversimplification

________: selection of unnecessarily significant info for a superficial or oversimplified understanding of something.

Noise source

________: interference w message transmission.

SE1

________- perceptual filtering in the decoding process generated an interpretation of event.

numerious stimuli

Subjective interpretation of associations of meaning we have learned for ________ as part of our culture, socilaization, and past experiences.

Persistence of first impressions we

________ tend to seend out, infer, or assume evidence that confirms our intial reads.

M2

________- destination: a decoder (audience) interprets the info received via the channel used by the source (M)

Message

________: set of info or symbols produced by sender to which meaning can be attributed.

Communicatior

________: the sender /encoder and receiver /decoder in the communication process.

Destination

________: indivi who is the target of the mediated message.

Model

________: abstract representation of a general set of elements of a phenomenon, showing the relationship of those elements and clarifying their details in context.

Own individual characteristics

________- past experiences, socialization, knowledge and social roles.

S

________- form: availability of channels of the source; particular characteristics of chosen channel (________); skill of message source using chosen channel (________)

Transmitter

________: the device sending the message.

Social systems

________: values, beliefs, culture, and a gen understanding of society.

Psychological constructs

________: ppl are organized based on their disposition or personaility traits.

Social influence

________- communication interaction of and with others.

narrow focus

Consciously focusing on stimuli- ________ on an item.

Noise

________: interrupters in the environment of the message.

interpret information

Each interaction represents a transaction in which participants express and ________.

Enthymemes syllogism

________ w a suppressed premise (only one premise+conclusion)

Context

________: complexity to achieve fidelity (accuracy) in comm.

Context

________: communication w others via a device or tech.

Context

________: journalism- describes the process of observation and communication of observed events: perception and representation.

Ethos

a persons character

logos

arguments/logic

pathos

appeal to emotions

Syllogisms

part of deductive reasoning

interpersonal comm

comm btwn individuals focusing on relational processes

intrapersonal comm

comm with oneself

nonverbal communication

communication without the use of words

mass comm

comm using tech as a medium to communicate to a large audience

international comm

comm among nations, regional entities, and international orgs

intercultural communication

communication that occurs in interactions between people who are culturally different, understanding how different ppl communicate and act differently

group communication

comm which occurs in groups, looking at characteristics such as collaboration, cohesion, structure, identity, and decisions making in small scale and large scale contexts

organizational communication

comm in and by an organization

model

abstract representation of a general set of elements of a phenomenon, showing the relationship of those elements and clarifying their details in context

explain

explain the relationship btwn the elements

predict

understand directionality of changes w/in and btwn elements

control

one can potentially control the elements

Sender

person who communicates the message

message

set of info or symbols produced by sender to which meaning can be attributed

receiver

the recipient of the message

Encoding

process of creating meaning into a specific form of a message

decoding

process of extracting meaning from a message

feedback

response to a message

noise

interrupters in the environment of the message

physical/external

literally physical noise

psychological/internal

might affect one of the senses which will impact ability of message to be sent and received

semantic/social

using words known by fewer ppl

mutual influence

ongoing and active contribution/influence of all parties in the communication process

transactional

simultaneous and mutually influential process of encoding and decoding messages

communicatior

the sender/encoder and receiver/decoder in the communication process

Context

productive process of communication effects

Context

communication w others via a device or tech

info source

communicator originating the message

message

the info sent directly by the source

transmitter

the device sending the message

signal

the form in which the message iss sent via the device

noise source

interference w message transmission

received signal

the device receiving the message

received message

what is actually produced by the receiving device after receiving the signal

destination

indivi who is the target of the mediated message

E

event that is perceived by a person

M

person

E1

perception of the event through objective and subjective interpretation

SE

statement construct by source abt the event

SE1

perceptual filtering in the decoding process generated an interpretation of event

Context

complexity to achieve fidelity (accuracy) in comm

communication skills

skill of the invid to communicate

attitudes

attitude towards audience, subject and oneself

knowledge

communicator needs to be knowledgeable in the subject

social systems

values, beliefs, culture, and a gen understanding of society

culture

also comes under social systems

content

body of the message

elements

non verbal cues

treatment

the accuracy of the message being conveyed

structure

how the message is arranged

Context

journalism