CMN 101 Study Guide#1 Questions with correct answers
What are the two different ways in the ways scholars define communication?
What are the names of those two "models"? Where is there agreement and
where is there disagreement? - ✔✔Received and not received.
Sender-Reciever and Receiver.
Agreement: information send intentionally. Disagreement: Whether or not it
must be received.
What is the definition of a theory? - ✔✔A scholar's construction of experience
based on systemic observation.
What do theories seek to accompish? - ✔✔Theories seek to describe, explain,
predict, and sometimes prescribe. In so doing, theories enable us to understand
our experience, control for possible problems, and generate new ways of living.
What are the ways in which theories are evaluated? - ✔✔Scope: Breadth of
coverage
Heuristic Value: Degree of interest
Parsimony: Simplicity and elegance
Validity: Rings True
What are the ways in which theories grow? - ✔✔Extension: Theory branches out
and becomes broader
Intension: Theory goes deeper.
, What are the ways in which all the various theories of Communication have been
organized? What are the levels of communication? - ✔✔Intrapersonal: two
people
Small Group: 3-12
Organizational: Large Numbers
Cultural: massive/millions
Mass: Millions
Mediated: Involving instrumentation for communication
What are the seven traditions in communication theory? Know what the specific
focuses on each one is. - ✔✔Semiotics: Shared code
Phenomenology: Interpretation forms reality for people
Cybernetic: Communication as a system of parts
Sociopsychological: Personal traits and cog. progress=communication
Sociocultural: Communication as the defining of social reality.
Critical: Communication as a challenge to social discourse
Rhetorical: Communication as artful public address
What is the definition of a trait? - ✔✔Relatively enduring characteristics of
individuals and how they relate to communication-related behavior.
What are the four levels of aggression? What are the definitions for each? Which
two are constructive and which two are destructive? Why? - ✔✔Assertiveness:
Putting your rights forward without hampering others' rights(Constructive)
Argumentativeness: Willingness to discuss controversial topics and defend one's
point of view in the face of strong opposition(Constructive)
What are the two different ways in the ways scholars define communication?
What are the names of those two "models"? Where is there agreement and
where is there disagreement? - ✔✔Received and not received.
Sender-Reciever and Receiver.
Agreement: information send intentionally. Disagreement: Whether or not it
must be received.
What is the definition of a theory? - ✔✔A scholar's construction of experience
based on systemic observation.
What do theories seek to accompish? - ✔✔Theories seek to describe, explain,
predict, and sometimes prescribe. In so doing, theories enable us to understand
our experience, control for possible problems, and generate new ways of living.
What are the ways in which theories are evaluated? - ✔✔Scope: Breadth of
coverage
Heuristic Value: Degree of interest
Parsimony: Simplicity and elegance
Validity: Rings True
What are the ways in which theories grow? - ✔✔Extension: Theory branches out
and becomes broader
Intension: Theory goes deeper.
, What are the ways in which all the various theories of Communication have been
organized? What are the levels of communication? - ✔✔Intrapersonal: two
people
Small Group: 3-12
Organizational: Large Numbers
Cultural: massive/millions
Mass: Millions
Mediated: Involving instrumentation for communication
What are the seven traditions in communication theory? Know what the specific
focuses on each one is. - ✔✔Semiotics: Shared code
Phenomenology: Interpretation forms reality for people
Cybernetic: Communication as a system of parts
Sociopsychological: Personal traits and cog. progress=communication
Sociocultural: Communication as the defining of social reality.
Critical: Communication as a challenge to social discourse
Rhetorical: Communication as artful public address
What is the definition of a trait? - ✔✔Relatively enduring characteristics of
individuals and how they relate to communication-related behavior.
What are the four levels of aggression? What are the definitions for each? Which
two are constructive and which two are destructive? Why? - ✔✔Assertiveness:
Putting your rights forward without hampering others' rights(Constructive)
Argumentativeness: Willingness to discuss controversial topics and defend one's
point of view in the face of strong opposition(Constructive)
