Comm Theory
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- Objective view of ethics
- standards that apply to all people in all situations at all times
- subjective view of ethics
- ethical behavior depends on the cultures values and beliefs as well as on the particular circumstances
- transactional communication
- all funtion as speaker/listener at the same time
- symetricality relationship
- nag:nag
- complementary relationship
- nag:calm
- how do you receive messages
- through all 5 senses
- the act of encoding
- trying to figure how to communicate
- communicative competence
- a knowledge of the rules and skills of communication; often refers to the qualities that make for effectiveness in communication
- feedforward
- preview
- channel/medium
- airwaves
- physical context
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-concrete enviornment in which comm takes place
- exerts some influence on the context of your messages as well as on the form - social-psychological
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ex. the status relationships among participants
ex. the roles and the games that people play
ex. the cultural rules of the society in which people are communicating - temporal context
- the time
- cultural context
- has to do with your beliefs, values, and way of behaving that are shared by a group of people and passed down from one generation to the next, rules, norms...
- punctuation in communication
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taking a side depending on the point of view
1. ease for understanding
2. make ourselves look good
3. consistent w/ self image - rigid complementary
- someone doesn't want to give up the role they have played for so long
- research
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are the results reliable
are the results valid
do the results justify the conclusion - valid
- does it measure what is says it measures
- high context culture
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group over individual
oral agreements
getting to know another - low context culture
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power, acheivment, individual
written agreements
right down to business - Halo Effect
- if we beleive a person has a lot of positive qualities, we pick up on the positives
- perceptual accentuation
- the longer you are deprived of something, the more you want it
- Low Consensus, Low Distinctiveness, High Consistency
- internal causes
- High Consensus, High Distinctiveness, Low Consistency
- external causes
- Just-World Hypothesis
- good things happen to good people
- 5 step process of listening
- receiving, understanding, remembering, evaluating, responding...
- Self-Disclosure
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type of comm where info that is normally not shared is
Gender effects self-disclosure the most - Johari's Window
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social comparison develops self concepts
-see yourself as others do
-actively receive info abour ur blind self
-increase your open self
-self-disclosure gives away POWER - Inflight-Intimacy
- share info, disclosing more to a stranger
- Inappropriate Disclosure
- result in dangerous areas, problems