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Comm 101 Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Encoding | Taking ideas & converting them into messages |
| Commuhnication Ethics | The standards of right & wrong that one applies to messages that are sent and received. |
| Decoding | Receiving a message & interpresting its meeting |
| Human Communication | A transacitonal process in which people generate meaning through the exchange of verbal and nonverbal messages in specific contexts, influenced by individual and societal forces and embedded in culture. |
| Channel | The means through which a message is transmitted. |
| Ethics | Standards of what is right and wrong, good and bad, moral and immoral. |
| Humman Communication in Society Model | A transactional model that, like most previous models, depicts communication as occuring when two or more people create meaning as they respond to each other in and their enviroment. |
| Reasoned skepticism | The balance of open-mindedness and critical attitude needed when evalutating others feelings. |
| Noise | Any stimulus that can interfere with, or degrade the qualtiy of a message. |
| Symbol | Something that represents something else and conveys meaning. |
| Frame | A structure that shapes how people interpret their perceptions. |
| Fundamental attribution error | The tendency to sttributes one's own negative behavior to behavior to external causes to one's positive actions to internal states. |
| identity | Who a person is, composed of individaul and social categories a person identifies with, as well as the categories that others identify with that person. |
| perception | The process of selection, organization, and interpretation of the information you collect through your sense: what you see, hear, taste, smell and touch. |
| Prototype | The most typical or representattive example of a person or concept. |
| Reflective appraisals | The idea that people's self-images rise arise primarily form the ways in which others biew them and from the many messages they have received from others about who they are. |
| interpersonal script | A relatively fixed sequence of events taht functions as a guide or template for communication or behavior. |
| selection | The process of choosing whcih sensory information to focus on. |
| Self-serving bias | The tendency to give one's self more credit that is due when good things happen and to accept too little responsibility for those things that go wrong. |
| Self-fulfilling prophecy | When an individual expects something to occure, the expectation increases the likelihood that the event occured. |