Coms 101 Dr. Alban (Liberty University) Exam 1

What are three barriers that can disrupt meaningful transmissions of information between senders and potential recipients?

1) Physical 2) Linguistic 3) Belief

Alban raises three objections to the view that no people can ever see things in exactly the same way: What are these?

1) the possibility of shared perspectives is self-discrediting 2) that all human knowledge is experience based 3) the assumption that differences of perspective prevent people from sometimes being and responding to the same things

Identify the 8 steps of the speech creation and presentation process

1. Decide on a topic 2. Be ethical throughout the process 3. Determine the general purpose the specific purpose, and the thesis statement 4. Define the audience 5. Support ideas with credible, documented information and sound reasoning 6. Draft the introduction, body, and conclusion 7. Choose your language with care 8. Deliver your speech with confidence

To Undertstand why Biblically Christian thinking regards communication to be significant, one must consider...

1. Why did God place us here? 2. What is His purpose for Humanity as a whole? 3. What is His purpose for your life and for mine? 4.What must you or I do in order to realize this purpose? 5. What are the implications of this for our communication practices?

Redemptive Communication

A person functions as a redemptive communicator when his or her verbal and/ or nonverbal behavaior manifest God's love to others in a way that promotes what God values in the world.

What is a World View ( Coms Version?)

A person's answers to questions about communication's significance will be powerfully influenced by his or her own worldview. A worldview is an individual's most basic assumption how the way things truly are.

Autonomous

Autonomous worldview are systems of belief that people develop on their own, primarily in response to what human standards have taught them to deem believable or acceptable.

The senders use of time to impact a recipient's interpretation of his or her message and motives

Chronemics

Communication derives from the root word

Communis

The figurative use of a harsh term instead of a mild term for an intended effect

Dysphemism

The figurative use of a mild term in place of a harsh term to relay the same basic idea in a more tasteful form

Euphemism

God's Values

God values his rightful authority over all things, including our bodies, our minds, and His creation. He values truth. God values His exclusive right to our worship. God values human life and impaired life. God values the Earth. He values human's care of the earth. God values Justice. God values mercy. God values humility.

Interaction among three or more people who come together for a common purpose

Group

The senders use of touch to impact a recipient's interpretation of his or her message and motives

Haptic's

The purpose or goal of the expositional approach is

Identify and explain the existence of commonalities that already unify people

Small Group Communication

Interaction among three or more people, usually in a face- to face environment, where interactivity is possible but generally not practiced.

Social interaction among two or more people, usually in a face-to-face environment, but possibly also in real-time virtual environments

Interpersonal

Your worldview is a composite of what?

Is a composite of you beliefs about human origin (where we came from), human nature (what makes us human), human purposes ( why we are here), and human destiny (where we are going).

Redemptive Criticim

Is the attempt to make sense of human communicative behavior and specific human communications in the light of divine revelations.

The use of bodily movement and gestures to impact a recipient's interpretation of his or her message and motives

Kinesics

When people use a media technology to distribute information to a large group of physically detached people

Mass

This figurative form identifies one thing in a way that symbolically stands for another thing

Metaphors

sees the universe as a self-created, self-sustaining Machine, consisting of material process and particles and nothing more than these, that invariably follow the course that physics has blindly programmed it to follow

Physical determinism

The use of space to impact a recipient's interpretation of his or her message and motives

Proxemics

When a speaker formally addresses a group of typically 10 or more individuals in a face-to-face environment where interactivity is possible but generally not practiced

Public

This figurative form explicitly compares two otherwise dissimilar things, usually via the modifiers like or as:

Similes

Denotes any situation in which fundamentally spiritual beings-- that is, intelligent, moral who are capable of living without bodies-- send meaningful messages to each other

Spiritual

This figurative form alludes to something by either highlighting only one aspect of it or something broader that includes it

Synecdoche

Worldview can be Broken into two Basic Types

Theocentric and Autonomous.

Existentialists

They believe that although we come to see the world as we do by the people who influence us through socialization, this neither has to be nor should be so. They tend to be negative.

Christian Theists Recognize What?

They recognize God's Word, the Bible, as perfectly authoritative in anything that it addresses. Thus it rightly frames our questions to understand the universe and our place in it.

Theocentric View

This worldview recognizes that God, the timeless, changeless source and sustainer of the universe and the source of all knowledge, discloses otherwise indiscernible foundational truths through scripture, and that these otherwise hidden disclosures rightly frame and give direction to human questions to make sense of anything, including communication.

Truth

Truth, the Biblically informed theist understands, is not a biochemical illusion or a social construction, but that which actually is the case, regardless of how it is perceived. As such, truth is something to be discovered and to which people are accountable, regardless of whether they choose to believe it exists.

The voice for communication and words to impact a recipients interpretation of his or her message and motives

Vocalics

Public Communication

When a speaker formally addresses a group of typically 10 or more individuals in a face to face environment where interactivity is possible but generally not practiced

Mass Communication

When people use a media technology to distribute information to a large group of physically detached people.

Mediated Communication

When senders use technologies to channel messages to recipients, whether synchronously or asynchronously.

Literal Lanugage

Words are literal if they are used forthrightly to signify the person, place, thing, idea, or action.

Social Constructionism

believe that because each person experiences the world in a unique way, no two persons can come to see the world in exactly the same way, no matter how hard they may try to do so.

The Biblically Christian Standard

considers whether the particular communication consists with God's timelessly, changelessly loving character as His Word defines it.

A Pragmatist

considers whether the particular communication is something personally meaningful for the individual communicator, regardless of how it affects other people.

Spiritual Communication

denotes any situation in which fundamentally spiritual beings-- that is intelligent moral beings who are capable of living without bodies-- send meaningful messages to each other.

A Utilitarian

determines whether a particular communication is significant by evaluating whether it promotes something that is in society's best interest.

The purpose of the rhetorical approach is

identity and explain the communicational steps people take in their various quests to establish points of oneness with others

Socialization

is the person's history of interactions with people whose imput helps to shape the way he or she sees and acts towards the world.

Interpersonal Communication

is the social interaction among two or more people, usually in a face- to- face environment, but possibly also in real- time virtual environments.

Spiritual Constitution

is the state of spiritual brokenness into which people are born and which conditions them to seek things that are God- like rather than God himself.

Verbal Language Can be What?

literal or figurative

A non-verbal communication refers to a sender's use of...

meaningful symbols other than words for expression

When senders use technologies to channel messages to recipients, whether synchronously or asynchronously

mediated

The figurative ascription of human qualities to something that is not human

personification

Physical Determinism

sees the universe as a self- created, self sustaining machine, consisting of material particles and processes and nothing more than these, that invariably follow the course that physics has blindly programmed it to follow.

what is transmission?

sending the message to the recipient in some form (verbal/non-verbal) that will later be decoded whether that be thought of or read

Physical Constitution

the bodyily dynamics that help to shape someone's personality and, by extensions, his or her openess to certain types of ideas, feelings, and behaviors.

What is encoding?

the sender's act, whether intentional or unintentional of expressing his or her attitude, value, belief, or feeling in a tangible form

Verbal Messages Involve What?

the use of words