COMM 102 Exam 1
Individualistic Culture
A culture in which people view their primary responsibility as helping themselves.
Low context culture
A culture that uses language primarily to express thoughts, feelings, and ideas as clearly and logically as possible.
social penetration model
A model that describes relationships in terms of their breadth and depth
Feedback
A persons response to the message they just received from the sender. Can be verbal or non verbal.
Communication
A process in which messages are generated to create meanings.
Attribution
A process of attaching meaning to another persons behavior or your own
Perception checking
A three part method for verifying the accuracy of interpretations, including a description of the sense data, two possible interpretations, also a request for confirmation of the interpretations.
What is a reason for excessively negative self evaluation
A. All of these
Which of the following is supported by research related to how the self concept develops
A. All of these are supported
Which step of perception is involved when you wonder if the person who smiles at you across the room is interested in romance or just being polite
A. Interpretation
The process by which individuals influence each other's perceptions through communication is known as
A. Negotiation
The person you believe yourself to be in moments of honest examination is your
A. Perceived self
The view that self concept can be seen as a product of the messages you've received throughout your life is known as:
A. Reflected appraisal
You're friend sent you an instant message on Facebook and said, "No I'm not going to the party." You couldn't tell if she was angry. Social scientists say this is due to the message lacking
A. Richness
If you ever gave a speech and forgot your remarks, not because you were unprepared but because you were afraid, saying "I know I'll blow it" you have experienced
A. Self fulfilling prophecy
Exaggerated beliefs are associated with a categorizing system known as
A. Stereotyping
Low context cultures tend to value and emphasize
A. Straight talk.
hyperpersonal communication
An acceleration of the discussion of personal topics and relational development.
Ethnocentrism
An attitude that ones own culture is superior to others.
Suzy is embarrassed to find the ethnic jokes she told on her Facebook page were offensive to several of her friends. Suzy made the common perception mistake of
Assuming that others were just like her
The term social scientists use to describe the process of attaching meaning to behavior is
Attribution
Mike and sue are happily married and always say "I love you" before ending their telephone conversations. The fact that the words do not have the same emotional impact as the first time they were spoken is because of the following
B. Communication is unrepeatable
The idea that it is often necessary to negotiate a shared meaning in order for satisfying communication to occur relates to which characteristic of the communication model?
B. Meanings exist in and among people
The degree to which members of a culture feel threatened by ambiguous situations and try to stay away from them is know as
B. Uncertainty avoidance
In North American culture categories such as age, ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, physical disabilities and religion are all considered
C. Co cultures
An example of psychological noise is
C. Insecurity
Seeking out and organizing impressions to support an opinion
Confirmation bias
power distance
Describes the degree to which members of a society accept an unequal distribution of power.
Which of the following characterizes transactional communication
E. All of the above
The ability to recreate another persons perspective
Empathy
social comparison
Evaluating oneself in terms of or by comparison to others.
Noise
External, physiological, and psychological distractions that interfere with the accurate transmission and reception of a message
Face management is something that is necessary only in actually face to face encounters
False
Positive self esteem guarantees interpersonal success
False
self monitoring is the ability to construct a variety of different frameworks for viewing an issue
False
Selection
First stage of the perception process in which a communicator attends to a stimulus from the environment.
reference group
Group against which we compare ourselves, thereby influencing our self esteem and concept.
Reference groups
Groups against which we compare ourselves, thereby influencing our self concept and self esteem
Tendency to form an overall positive impression of a person on the basis of one positive characteristic
Halo effect
Rejection
I think we need to break up
Hurt the other person
It's sort of dumb that you ever thought that
Social media
Mediated communication channels used primarily for personal reasons including text messaging, twitter, email, instant messaging, and social networking services
Stories we use to deprive our personal worlds
Narratives
Which step is it?
One
Empathy
Ones ability to project themselves into another persons perspective or point of view.
self monitoring
Paying close attention in your own behavior and specially changing behavior when needed.
To have sufficient air, water, and food to survive
Physical
Determination of causes and effects in a series of interactions
Punctuation
Collectivistic culture
Ranks the needs/wants of a group over an individual. Very group centered.
High context culture
Relies heavily on subtle, often non verbal cues to maintain social harmony.
To protect myself from real or perceived threats
Safety
Which step is based on the fact that we notice some messages and ignore others
Selection
To become the most complete person I can be
Self actualization
To believe that I have value as a person
Self esteem
Judging ourselves in the most generous terms possible
Self serving bias
To develop happy relationships with partners
Social
Disinhibition
Speaking without thinking about or taking into consideration about how others might take what your saying in a bad way
How a persons position in society shapes their view of society in general
Standpoint theory
privacy management
The choices people make to reveal or conceal information about themselves.
High vs. low context
The degree to which a culture values direct verbal communication or subtle, often nonverbal communication
Individualism vs. Collectivism
The degree to which a culture views their primary responsibility as themselves or their group
power distance
The degree to which members of a society accept an unequal distribution of power.
uncertainty avoidance
The degree to which people feel threatened by ambiguous situations
Achievement vs. Nuturing
The degree to which societies place value on material success vs support of relationships.
Channel
The different ways messages or conversations can be exchanged. Several different options email, phone, text, social media.
Transactional
The dynamic process in which communicators create meaning together through interaction
Negotiation
The fourth stage of the perception process, in which communicators influence each other's perception through interaction.
social identity
The idea of who someone is, based on what/who they belong to, or the groups they belong to.
Face
The image an individual wants to project to the world.
Culture
The language, values, beliefs, traditions, and customs people share and learn.
Self esteem
The part of the self concept that involves evaluations of self worth.
Co Culture
The perception of membership in a group that is part of an encompassing culture.
self disclosure
The process of deliberately revealing information about oneself that is significant and that others would typically not know about.
Punctuation
The process of determining the casual order of events
Organization
The second stage in the perception process that involves arranging data in a meaningful way.
Narrative
The stories we use to festive our personal worlds.
Primary effect
The tendency to pay more attention to and to better recall things that happen first in a certain sequence.
reflected appraisal
The theory that a persons self concept matches the way the person believes others regard him or her.
uncertainty avoidance
To reflect the degree to which members of a culture feel threatened by ambiguous situations and how much they try to avoid them.
Attribution is the term social scientists use to describe the process of attaching meaning to behavior
True
Communication is a process in which messages are generated to create meanings
True
Culture is to a great extent, a matter of perception and definition.
True
Effective communication can satisfy identity needs
True
Empathy requires open-mindedness, imagination, and commitment
True
Ethnicity refers to the degree to which a person identifies with a particular group on the basis of nationality, culture, or other unifying perspectives
True
Ethnocentrism is the attitude that ones culture is superior to others
True
Feedback is the verbal and nonverbal response to messages received from the speaker
True
High context cultures rely more on nonverbal cues than do low context cultures
True
People commonly imagine that others possess the same attitudes and motives that they do
True
People often cling to outmoded and unrealistic self concepts, even when the new image would be more favorable than the old one
True
Social scientists use the term "salience" to describe the weight attached to a person or issue.
True
The ability to ask yourself mentally how you're doing and to change your behavior if necessary is self monitoring
True
The tendency to resist revision to our self perception is strong
True
The way a communication sequence is punctuated affects its perceived meaning
True
While children may be born with some social characteristics, self concept is almost totally determined by social interaction
True
If a person feels like they are a "loser" in society, compared to other people who are more successful, this is an example of standpoint theory
True.
Loss of influence
You don't have a degree why was I listening to you
Negative impression
You haven't saved a dime towards retirement? That's not good
Loss of control
You haven't told Sylvia that/ I think I should
relational dimension
Your expression of another person during a conversation. How you feel towards another person in a conversation
Johari Window
a model that describes the relationship between self-disclosure and self-awareness
impression management
the communication strategies people use to influence how others view them
