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a process in which people generate meaning through the exchange of verbal and non verbal messages - correct answers human communication a communication (usually brief) that is written or spoken or signaled - correct answers Message the means through which a message is transmitted - correct answers Channel taking ideas and converting them into messages - correct answers Encoding receiving a message and interpreting its meaning - correct answers Decoding any stimulus that can interfere with, or degrade, the quality of a message - correct answers Noise the education, life events, and cultural background that a communicator possesses - correct answers Field of experience the building blocks of communication events - correct answers messages something that represents something else and conveys meaning - correct answers symbols standards of what is right and wrong, good and bad, moral and immoral - correct answers Ethics This is a right and wrong answer to every ethical dilemma, This holds true for every person in every country in every culture - correct answers absolute ethics A belief that there is no absolute right or wrong, Ones behavior depends on the person and the situation and many other factors - correct answers relative ethics what a message conveys about the relationship between the parties - correct answers relationship meaning the honest and ethical responses receivers provide to the messages of others - correct answers Healthy feedback the refusal to acknowledge the intended meaning of a message - correct answers Meaning denial communication acts that attempt to deny others the right to speak based on their positions or identities - correct answers Disqualification communication that is used to influence the attitudes or behaviors of others; threat of persuasion - correct answers Rhetoric an era of tremendous intellectual artistic and scientific achievements in Europe spanning the fourteenth to the seventeenth century's - correct answers Renaissance a system of though that celebrates human nature and its potential - correct answers humanism the focus on the study of behavior as a science - correct answers Behaviorism contemporary term for the behaviorist approach - correct answers social science approach contemporary term for humanistic (rhetorical) study - correct answers interpretive approach belief system that represents a particular world view - correct answers paradigm a set of statements that explains a particular phenomenon - correct answers theory the specific ways that scholars collect and analyze data which they then use to prove or disprove their theories - correct answers methods relating to everyday, real life situations such as a classroom café or shopping mall - correct answers naturalistic methods in which researchers study naturally occurring communication rather than assembling data and converting it to numbers - correct answers Qualitative methods methods that convert data to numerical indicators and then analyze these numbers using statistics to establish relationships among the concepts - correct answers Quantitative method similar to rhetorical analysis; used to analyze cultural "products" such as media and public speeches - correct answers Textual analysis a broad intellectual and social movement of the late twentieth century - correct answers Postmodernism 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 - correct answers identity the idea that peoples self images arise primarily from the ways that others view them and from the many messages they have received from others about who they are - correct answers Reflected appraisals when an individual expects something to occur the expectation increases the likelihood that it will - correct answers Self-fulfilling prophecy the understanding of ones unique characteristics as well as the similarities to and differences from others - correct answers self-concept part of ones self-concept; arises out of how one perceives and interprets reflected appraisals and social comparisons - correct answers self-esteem the process or means by which we show the world who we think we are - correct answers performance of identity performing scripts deemed proper for particular identities - correct answers enacting identities the expectation that one will perform in a particular way because of the social role occupied - correct answers role expectations