COMM 220 Exam 1 questions with accurate answers
"This is not a pipe" Ans✓✓✓ Its a picture of a pipe
% of comm that is verbal vs. nonverbal Ans✓✓✓ Verbal = 35%
Nonverbal = 65%
Acknowledgement Ans✓✓✓ Attentiveness to what a person feels,
thinks, or says.
Ambushing Ans✓✓✓ Listening carefully for the purpose of gathering
ammunition to use in attacking a speaker.
Ancient Greece and its role in rhetoric Ans✓✓✓ ...
Anxiety around the Sophists Ans✓✓✓ Promiscuous- teachers for pay,
too democratic, will teach anyone, some Athenian and some not -
"foreigners"
Areas of study in Comm Ans✓✓✓ Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, group,
organizational, intercultural, rhetoric, media & mass communication,
ethics
Aristotle Ans✓✓✓ Student of plato; rhetoric as techne (as art,
craftsmanship); rhetoric is central to civic life and democracy, a way to
access truth
,Aristotle's contribution to rhetoric Ans✓✓✓ The five canons of
rhetoric: invention, organization, style, memory, delivery
Artifacts Ans✓✓✓ Personal objects we use to announce our identities
and to personalize our environments
Aspects of listening Ans✓✓✓ Physically receiving message,
remembering, responding, interpreting communication, selecting and
organizing information,
Attachment styles Ans✓✓✓ Patterns of parenting that teach us how to
view ourselves and personal relationships.
Attribution Ans✓✓✓ The act of explaining why something happens or
why a person acts a particular way
Bracketing Ans✓✓✓ Marks off peripheral issues for later discussion.
Brute facts Ans✓✓✓ Objective, concrete phenomena and activites
Certainty vs Provisionalism Ans✓✓✓ Language of certainty is
absolute- suggests there is only one valid answer, point of view, or
course of action. Language of provisionalism relies on tentative
language to signal openness to other points of view.
, Chronemics Ans✓✓✓ How we perceive and use time to define
identities and interaction. (C like clock)
Cognitive schemata ** Ans✓✓✓ Cognitive structures
Comm is symbolic Ans✓✓✓ Abstract, arbitrary, and ambiguous
representations of other things, language is symbolic, symbols can
change, and when they do, they change meanings
Comm systems Ans✓✓✓ Interrelated parts that affect one another,
openness, homeostasis (maintain an equilibrium).
Communication as techne Ans✓✓✓ Communication as an art and a
science.
Communication climate Ans✓✓✓ The emotional tone of a relationship
between people
Communication Ans✓✓✓ A systematic process in which people
interact with and through symbols to create and interpret
Conflict Ans✓✓✓ When people who depend on each other have
different views, interests, values, responsibilities, or objectives and
perceive their differences as incompatible.
"This is not a pipe" Ans✓✓✓ Its a picture of a pipe
% of comm that is verbal vs. nonverbal Ans✓✓✓ Verbal = 35%
Nonverbal = 65%
Acknowledgement Ans✓✓✓ Attentiveness to what a person feels,
thinks, or says.
Ambushing Ans✓✓✓ Listening carefully for the purpose of gathering
ammunition to use in attacking a speaker.
Ancient Greece and its role in rhetoric Ans✓✓✓ ...
Anxiety around the Sophists Ans✓✓✓ Promiscuous- teachers for pay,
too democratic, will teach anyone, some Athenian and some not -
"foreigners"
Areas of study in Comm Ans✓✓✓ Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, group,
organizational, intercultural, rhetoric, media & mass communication,
ethics
Aristotle Ans✓✓✓ Student of plato; rhetoric as techne (as art,
craftsmanship); rhetoric is central to civic life and democracy, a way to
access truth
,Aristotle's contribution to rhetoric Ans✓✓✓ The five canons of
rhetoric: invention, organization, style, memory, delivery
Artifacts Ans✓✓✓ Personal objects we use to announce our identities
and to personalize our environments
Aspects of listening Ans✓✓✓ Physically receiving message,
remembering, responding, interpreting communication, selecting and
organizing information,
Attachment styles Ans✓✓✓ Patterns of parenting that teach us how to
view ourselves and personal relationships.
Attribution Ans✓✓✓ The act of explaining why something happens or
why a person acts a particular way
Bracketing Ans✓✓✓ Marks off peripheral issues for later discussion.
Brute facts Ans✓✓✓ Objective, concrete phenomena and activites
Certainty vs Provisionalism Ans✓✓✓ Language of certainty is
absolute- suggests there is only one valid answer, point of view, or
course of action. Language of provisionalism relies on tentative
language to signal openness to other points of view.
, Chronemics Ans✓✓✓ How we perceive and use time to define
identities and interaction. (C like clock)
Cognitive schemata ** Ans✓✓✓ Cognitive structures
Comm is symbolic Ans✓✓✓ Abstract, arbitrary, and ambiguous
representations of other things, language is symbolic, symbols can
change, and when they do, they change meanings
Comm systems Ans✓✓✓ Interrelated parts that affect one another,
openness, homeostasis (maintain an equilibrium).
Communication as techne Ans✓✓✓ Communication as an art and a
science.
Communication climate Ans✓✓✓ The emotional tone of a relationship
between people
Communication Ans✓✓✓ A systematic process in which people
interact with and through symbols to create and interpret
Conflict Ans✓✓✓ When people who depend on each other have
different views, interests, values, responsibilities, or objectives and
perceive their differences as incompatible.
