Uconn Comm 1000 Exam 1|77 Questions and
Answers|100% Verified
Why study Comm? - -Keeps us alive, impacts everything, it is a skill,
employers value it
- What is Human Communication - --the process of managing messages for
the purpose of creating shared meaning.
-a transaction between at least 2 people
-simultaneously sending and receiving messages
- Factors that influence communication - -Listening, time, feedback
- Intrapersonal comm - -within one person
- interpersonal - -with one another
- interviewing - -focused on question-answer pattern
- small group - -3 or more members influencing one another
- public comm - -talking to a lot of people
- organization comm - -between people of certain culture
- Elements of effective comm - -understanding, pleasure, attitude influence,
improved relationships, action
- Humanistic approaches - -rhetoric, interpretivists, critical scholars
- Rhetoric - -basis for public speaking
- interpretivists - -make sense of the world based on events
- Critical scientific approaches - -Qualitative, quantitative
- Qualitative - -rigorous observational rules , work in the field
- Quantitative - -seeks to uncover patterns in comm behavior via numbers,
in the field or lab
- The scientific method - -ask questions or state problem
formulate hypothesis or research question
think through, refine hypothesis
, - Perception - -interpreting the sensory experience of the world
- Process of Perception - -1. select
2.organize
3.interpret
- Perceptual filters - -Physical/physiological limits (glasses)
- Pyschological sets - -expectations that shape experiences (gender, age)
- Attribution - -the process of assigning meaning to others' behavior
- Dispositional other - -Overuse of personality reasons (dispositions) with
others
"joe failed the exam because he was lazy"
- Self-serving bias - -Overuse of situational attributions with self
"I failed the exam because the exam was ridiculous and unfair
- Impressions of self - -self concept
-(looking-glass)
-self expansion model
-social comparison
self-esteem
-feedback
selffulfilling prophecy
-can or can not do something
- Impressions of Others - -First impressions
-primary effect
Physical attractiveness
expressiveness
charisma
- Stereotyping - -a generalization about a class of people, objects, or events
that is widely held by a given culture
- Social Roles - -work, student, gender-limited, marital
- Verbal Communication - -a system of symbols and codes used to construct
and covey meaning
- symbol - -the word itself, the word means nothing, but culturally we have
created a meaning for the word
- referent - -the thing that the word stands for
Answers|100% Verified
Why study Comm? - -Keeps us alive, impacts everything, it is a skill,
employers value it
- What is Human Communication - --the process of managing messages for
the purpose of creating shared meaning.
-a transaction between at least 2 people
-simultaneously sending and receiving messages
- Factors that influence communication - -Listening, time, feedback
- Intrapersonal comm - -within one person
- interpersonal - -with one another
- interviewing - -focused on question-answer pattern
- small group - -3 or more members influencing one another
- public comm - -talking to a lot of people
- organization comm - -between people of certain culture
- Elements of effective comm - -understanding, pleasure, attitude influence,
improved relationships, action
- Humanistic approaches - -rhetoric, interpretivists, critical scholars
- Rhetoric - -basis for public speaking
- interpretivists - -make sense of the world based on events
- Critical scientific approaches - -Qualitative, quantitative
- Qualitative - -rigorous observational rules , work in the field
- Quantitative - -seeks to uncover patterns in comm behavior via numbers,
in the field or lab
- The scientific method - -ask questions or state problem
formulate hypothesis or research question
think through, refine hypothesis
, - Perception - -interpreting the sensory experience of the world
- Process of Perception - -1. select
2.organize
3.interpret
- Perceptual filters - -Physical/physiological limits (glasses)
- Pyschological sets - -expectations that shape experiences (gender, age)
- Attribution - -the process of assigning meaning to others' behavior
- Dispositional other - -Overuse of personality reasons (dispositions) with
others
"joe failed the exam because he was lazy"
- Self-serving bias - -Overuse of situational attributions with self
"I failed the exam because the exam was ridiculous and unfair
- Impressions of self - -self concept
-(looking-glass)
-self expansion model
-social comparison
self-esteem
-feedback
selffulfilling prophecy
-can or can not do something
- Impressions of Others - -First impressions
-primary effect
Physical attractiveness
expressiveness
charisma
- Stereotyping - -a generalization about a class of people, objects, or events
that is widely held by a given culture
- Social Roles - -work, student, gender-limited, marital
- Verbal Communication - -a system of symbols and codes used to construct
and covey meaning
- symbol - -the word itself, the word means nothing, but culturally we have
created a meaning for the word
- referent - -the thing that the word stands for
