COMM 220 Final Exam questions with accurate
answers
Advisory group Ans✓✓✓ Providing expert advice to an individual or
group that is empowered to make a decision
Agenda setting theory Ans✓✓✓ The media's ability to select and call
to the public's attention ideas, events, and people, and to offer frames, or
ways of seeing, those phenomena it selects.
Appropriate/mature ethical questions Ans✓✓✓ Questioning cultural
relativism, honesty and trustworthiness are deemed ethical behaviors
across cultures, questions of visual ethics (manipulation of images)
Aristotelian Rhetoric Ans✓✓✓ Rhetoric is the faculty of discovering in
any particular case all of the available means of persuasion. Rhetoric has
intent, language is the way to access truth
Artistic proofs Ans✓✓✓ Persuasion created by the speaker. Ethos
(credibility)
Pathos (emotion)
Logos (logic)
Enthymeme
Assimilation Ans✓✓✓ Occurs when people give up their ways and
adopt the ways of the dominate culture, it is also called surrendering
because it gives up an original cultural identity for a new one
,Autonomy/Connection Ans✓✓✓ Desires to be separate vs connected
Brainstorming group Ans✓✓✓ Coming up with as many ideas in one
sitting session as possible
Burke Dramatistic Pentad Ans✓✓✓ Act: what was done
Scene: context in which act was performed
Agent: person or people who performed the act
Agency: means the agent used to act
Purpose: state or implied goal of the address
Burke Dramatistic Rhetoric Ans✓✓✓ Captures the meaning embedded
in human drama: invites critic to interpret motives and meanings playing
out in the drama. Critic's job is to unearth speakers' motives. How the
communicator tries to get the audience to accept his or her view of
reality as true.
Circuit of culture Ans✓✓✓ Method for studying the dynamic and
multiple factors that constitute media culture.
Climate communication Ans✓✓✓ Creating and maintaing a
comfortable environment for members to be able to talk and share ideas
freely
, Co-cultures Ans✓✓✓ Groups of people or social communities who
exhibit and are united by significant, distant, cultural differences from a
dominant culture in which they are embedded within
Codes Ans✓✓✓ Rule-driven conventions used to communicate
meanings.
Coherence Ans✓✓✓ Does the story hang together?
Cohesion Ans✓✓✓ the degree of closeness among members and the
sense of group spirit
Collectivist Culture Ans✓✓✓ Regard people as deeply connected to
one another and to their families, groups, and companies, value
intergroup order and harmony, group welfare, and interdependence.
Communication tends to be other-oriented and cooperative and
collective accomplishments are more valued than individual ones.
Coming apart stages Ans✓✓✓ Intraphsychic: where one or more
partners think about dissatisfactions
Dyadic: breakdown of established patterns
Social support: signal likelihood of breaking up
Grave dressing: decision to part ways, make sense of ended relationship
Resurrection: moving on individually without each other
Commitment Ans✓✓✓ The decision to remain within a reltionship
answers
Advisory group Ans✓✓✓ Providing expert advice to an individual or
group that is empowered to make a decision
Agenda setting theory Ans✓✓✓ The media's ability to select and call
to the public's attention ideas, events, and people, and to offer frames, or
ways of seeing, those phenomena it selects.
Appropriate/mature ethical questions Ans✓✓✓ Questioning cultural
relativism, honesty and trustworthiness are deemed ethical behaviors
across cultures, questions of visual ethics (manipulation of images)
Aristotelian Rhetoric Ans✓✓✓ Rhetoric is the faculty of discovering in
any particular case all of the available means of persuasion. Rhetoric has
intent, language is the way to access truth
Artistic proofs Ans✓✓✓ Persuasion created by the speaker. Ethos
(credibility)
Pathos (emotion)
Logos (logic)
Enthymeme
Assimilation Ans✓✓✓ Occurs when people give up their ways and
adopt the ways of the dominate culture, it is also called surrendering
because it gives up an original cultural identity for a new one
,Autonomy/Connection Ans✓✓✓ Desires to be separate vs connected
Brainstorming group Ans✓✓✓ Coming up with as many ideas in one
sitting session as possible
Burke Dramatistic Pentad Ans✓✓✓ Act: what was done
Scene: context in which act was performed
Agent: person or people who performed the act
Agency: means the agent used to act
Purpose: state or implied goal of the address
Burke Dramatistic Rhetoric Ans✓✓✓ Captures the meaning embedded
in human drama: invites critic to interpret motives and meanings playing
out in the drama. Critic's job is to unearth speakers' motives. How the
communicator tries to get the audience to accept his or her view of
reality as true.
Circuit of culture Ans✓✓✓ Method for studying the dynamic and
multiple factors that constitute media culture.
Climate communication Ans✓✓✓ Creating and maintaing a
comfortable environment for members to be able to talk and share ideas
freely
, Co-cultures Ans✓✓✓ Groups of people or social communities who
exhibit and are united by significant, distant, cultural differences from a
dominant culture in which they are embedded within
Codes Ans✓✓✓ Rule-driven conventions used to communicate
meanings.
Coherence Ans✓✓✓ Does the story hang together?
Cohesion Ans✓✓✓ the degree of closeness among members and the
sense of group spirit
Collectivist Culture Ans✓✓✓ Regard people as deeply connected to
one another and to their families, groups, and companies, value
intergroup order and harmony, group welfare, and interdependence.
Communication tends to be other-oriented and cooperative and
collective accomplishments are more valued than individual ones.
Coming apart stages Ans✓✓✓ Intraphsychic: where one or more
partners think about dissatisfactions
Dyadic: breakdown of established patterns
Social support: signal likelihood of breaking up
Grave dressing: decision to part ways, make sense of ended relationship
Resurrection: moving on individually without each other
Commitment Ans✓✓✓ The decision to remain within a reltionship
