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Communication

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Human Communication   A transactional process in which people generate meaning through the exchange of verbal and non verbal messages in specific contexts, influenced by individual and societal forces and embedded in culture.  
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Messages   The building blocks of communication events.  
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Encoding   Taking ideas and converting them into messages.  
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Decoding   Receiving a message and interpreting its meaning.  
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Symbol   Something that represents something else and conveys meaning.  
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Content Meaning   The concrete meaning of the message and meanings suggested by or associated with the message and the emotions triggered by it.  
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Relationship Meaning   What a message conveys about the relationship between the parties  
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Setting   The physical surroundings of a communication event  
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Participants   The people interacting during communication  
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Channel   The mean through which a message is transmitted.  
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Noise   Any stimulus that can interfere with or degrade, the quality of a message  
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Denotative Meaning   Is the concrete meaning of a message, like a definition  
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Connotative Meaning   Describes the meaning suggested by or associated with the message and the emotions triggered by it.  
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Feedback   The response to a message  
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Human Communication in Society Model   A transactional model of communication that depicts communication as occurring when two or more people create meaning as they respond to each other and their environment.  
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Field of Experience   the education, life events, and cultural background that a communicator possesses.  
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Culture   Learned patterns of perceptions, values, and behaviors shared by a group of people  
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Ethics   Standards of what is right and wrong, good and bad, moral and immoral.  
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Communicaiton Ethics   The standards of right and wrong that one applies to messages that are sent and recieved.  
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Absolutism   Pertaining to the belief that there is a single correct moral standard that holds for everyone, everywhere, everytime.  
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Relativism   Pertaining to the belief that moral behavior varies among individuals, groups, and cultures,as well as across situations.  
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Reasoned Skepticism   The balance of open mindedness and critical attitudes needed when evaluating others messages.  
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Healthy Feedback   The honest and ethical responses receivers provide to the messages of others.  
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Self Serving Bias   The tendency to give ones self more credit than is due when good things happen and to accept too little responsibility for those things that go wrong.  
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Fundamental Attribution Error   The tendency to attribute others negative behavior to internal causes and their positive behaviors to external causes.  
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Identity   Who a person is, composed of individual and social categories a person identifies with, as well as the categories that others identify with that person.  
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Reflected Appraisals   the idea that peoples self-images arise primarily from the ways in which others view them and from the many messages they have received from others about who they are.  
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Looking-Glass Self   The idea that self-image results from the images others reflect back to an individual.  
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Particular Others   The important people in an individuals life whose opinions and behavior influence the various aspects of identity.  
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