COMMUNICATION MIDTERM

What is Communication?

How we interact with our entire world, it’s human, symbolic, and a process → Spoken Words, Photos, Music, Dance, Gestures, Facial Expressions, Emojis,etc.

Intrapersonal Communication

Communication you have with yourself, how you assign meaning to the world

Interpersonal Communication

Communication between two people, can be verbal or nonverbal

Small Group Communication

Every person can participate + roles of leader and audience interchangeable

Public Communication

Group becomes to large for all to contribute + Unequal amount of speaking and limited feedback

Mass Communication

Uses technology to send messages to a large mixed audience who’s members are not known to sender

Identity

Who you are, the characteristics that make you different

Primary Identity

Those that have the most consistent and enduring impact on our lives (Race, Gender, Nationality)

Secondary Identity

More fluid and more dependent on situation (College, Major, Occupation, etc.)

Reflected Appraisal

Describes how our self-image is formed from the way others view us

Social Comparisons

Compare ourselves to others to determine how we measure up then evaluate ourselves

Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

When an individual expects something to occur, the expectation increases the likelihood that it will

Self-Concept

Understanding of your characteristics, strengths, similarities in public settings

Performance of Individual Identity

Showing world who you think you are

Verifiability

A report is a statement that can be checked or verified

Inference

Conclusion based on observation

Judgements

Evolution or Opinion: How You Evaluate Something: Agree or Disagree

Slanting

Presents info in a way that favors a certain view point

Verbal Context

Words around a word that help determine it’s meaning

Physical Conext

Situation / Environment help determine meaning

Extensional

Actual things word refers to

Intensional

Qualities or ideas we associate with word

One Word, One Meaning Fallacy

Word has diff meaning depending on context

Informative Connotation

Gives info about something, tells us what something is or what happening

Affective Connotation

Expresses feelings or attitudes toward something, can make a word sound positive or negative (Princess, Baby)

Diffusion

Social Process which an innovation is communicated over time among members of a network or social sector

Abstraction

Taking certain characteristics from specific things and forming a general idea

Upward of Abstract Ladder

More Abstract / General

Going Down of Abstract Ladder

More Specific / Concrete

Dead - Level Abstraction

Staying at one level of abstraction instead of moving between general ideas and specific examples

Reason

Sentence or two explaining why your readers/listeners should accept your claim