Comm100 Unit 1

Unit 1 exam flashcards. Covers chapters 1, 2, 14, 15

Self presentation goals

Deliberate way you present yourself

Instrumental goals

acomplishing tasks/achieving practical goals. (going to store, appointments, starbucks, studying)

Relationship goals

building, maintaining, or terminating bonds

Communication

The process through which people create messages through a variety of modalities and sensory channels to convey meanings.

Linear communication model

messages through channel, sender & receiver, and noise

Interactive Communication model

Feedback, verbal & nonverbal cues, fields of experience - values, beliefs, experiences - , sender & reciever

Transactional communication model

multidirectional, mutually influence one anothers behaviors, nonverbal communication, close friends, meanings conveyed mean more than message

Mediated communication

separated by technology

Interpersonal communication

between two people - significant impact on both

Small group

3+ independent persons who share a common goal

Public Communication

preparing & delivering a message to an audience to achive a goal

Rhetoric

the theory and practice of persuading others through speech.

Goals of public speaking

to instruct, to persuade, to honor

Aristotle’s ethical persuasion required?

a speaker to be compelling, demonstrate credibility, provide logical reasoning, and appeal to the emotions of listeners.

Ciceros 5 requirements of speech crafting

invention & truth, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery

Harold lasswell’s four aims of gov. propoganda

create enemy hatred, preserve allies friendship, gain neutral parties, and demoralize the enemy.

self awareness

view yourself as unique person

Self concept

over all assessment of who you are based on attitudes and values.

Self esteem

over all value you assign yourself

self discrepancy theory

self esteem determined by comparison to ideal ought self

ideal self

all qualities you want to posess

ought self

the person you think others want you to be

culture

beliefs, values, attitudes, and practices shared by a large group of people

individualistic cultures

individual goals greater than the group goals

collectivistic cultures

groupd goals and loyalty is greater than individual goals

Private self

self awareness, self concept, and self esteem all rolled into one

face

positive self you want others to believe

mask

outward presentation to cover private aspects of self

perception process

selection - focus attention and gain info, organize - structure info into coherent pattern, interpret pattern - assigning meaning to selected info

intergroupers

people we consider as similar to ourselves

outgroupers

people not culturally similar to ourselves

attribution

explanations for why things are happening

fundamental attribution error

attributing others behaviors to internal factors

actor observer effect

attributing ones own behaviors to external causes

self serving bias

attributing one’s own success to internal factors

Impression

quick mental image of who someone is

gestalt

general impression of a person, requires little effort to form

halo effect

positive gestalt

horn effect

negative gestalt

algebraic impressions

analysing positive and negative things about someone, more accurate than gestalt

stereotyping

categorizing people into social groups

implicit bias

unrecognized attitudes and discriminatory stereotypes

empathy

feeling into another person’s thoughts and emotions

empathy mindset

one’s belief whether empathy is developed or controlled

Speech thesis

central idea, specific purpose, one sentence

main points

ideas formed around thesis, main topics for body paragraphs

Ways to demonstrate main points

stats, examples, regerences, testimonies

connectives

words, phrases that link ideas, transitions

internal previews

foreshadowing info that will be covered

impromptu

public remarks with little to no prep

manuscript

delivering a speech based on written text

extemporaneous

little time to prepare, but written points and plan of attack

immediacy

sense of closeness audience feels towards a speaker

presentation aid tips

prepare the audience, explain stats on aid, have a backup plan

how to give feedback

recipient should be ready to hear feedback, sandwich the bad comments with positive comments, less is more

how to use feedback

guide speech revisions, helps to plan and practice for next speech