Comm 1000 uconn exam 1
Communications - correct answer ✔✔Process of managing messages from the purpose of creating
shared meaning.
Transaction - correct answer ✔✔Between at least two people. The process of continuously sending and
receiving messages.
Model of Human communication - correct answer ✔✔
Messages - correct answer ✔✔can be verbal or non verbal, unintentional, and intentional. Four Types:
Intention Verbal, intentional nonverbal, unintentional verbal, unintentional nonverbal.
Channels - correct answer ✔✔The medium through a message is sent. It can be face-to-face or over the
internet.
Interference - correct answer ✔✔Prevents message from being received or prevents intended meaning
from being understood.
noise - correct answer ✔✔Interferes with sending and receiving of messages, doesn't just mean physical
noise like jack hammer outside, could be preoccupied with exam you have next class, can be
psychological, physiological etc.
semantic noise - correct answer ✔✔Type of noise occurs because of misunderstanding of word meaning
Filters - correct answer ✔✔Filters can be your age, gender, race, experience, etc. These filters determine
how you receive and response to a message.
1. Personality
2. Upbringing / Background
3. Race
,Intrapersonal - correct answer ✔✔Communication within a person. How you think of yourself.
Interpersonal - correct answer ✔✔Communication with another person (dyadic). Between 2 people
Interviewing - correct answer ✔✔Focused on question-answer pattern. How you think of yourself has no
correlation with how good you are.
Small group communicatio - correct answer ✔✔3+ members of a group influencing one another.
Public Communication - correct answer ✔✔Stand up, political event, lecture. Speaking to a large group
of people in av public setting
Organizational Communication - correct answer ✔✔Different cultures on interaction. decisions made at
different levels. tries to find a means to an end, goal oriented communication
Health Communication - correct answer ✔✔communication studies effective method for reducing
negative behaviors, safety, reduce smoking
Mass Communication - correct answer ✔✔Communication through technology and the media.
Five Elements to Effective Communication - correct answer ✔✔Understanding, Pleasure, Attitude
Influence, Improved relationships, and Action
Humanistic Approach to Communication - Rhetoric - correct answer ✔✔using language to persuade,
compare style of trump & obama
(examines the way people use certain language and devices to convince others)
Humanistic Approach to Communication - Interpretivist - correct answer ✔✔Looks at responses to
event, i.e. what did we learn about the USA from that event
, Humanistic Approach to Communication - Critical Scholar - correct answer ✔✔Looks at the distribution
of power in a situation and what happens when there is a shift in power.
looks at oppression & cases of inequality, why imbalances are the way they are
Qualitative - correct answer ✔✔Qualitative research collects data that are rich in detail and description.
Uses in depth interviews, ethnography, and participant observation. Ex: Liberals vs Democrats.
"work in the field"
Quantitative - correct answer ✔✔Quantitative Research seeks to uncover patterns in communication
behaviors via numbers. Uses advanced techniques and rigid testing to support/ reject hypothesis.
Steps to Scientific Research - correct answer ✔✔1. Ask a question or state a problem
2. Formulate a hypothesis or research questions
3. Think through and refine hypothesis or research questions
4. Design and conduct the observation, measurement. or experiment
5. Analyze and interpret the data
Ex: relationship between attendance and exam grades
How research is conducted - correct answer ✔✔Empirical-
objective -
Logical and consistent -
Public -
Scientific method: Empirical - correct answer ✔✔using multiple choice instead of paragraphs
allows us to take a look at certain things very carefully.. Observed and measured
carefully measured
scientific method: objective - correct answer ✔✔make rules to prevent biases from entering
trying to be fair and deciding to use data rather than beliefs/opinions
Communications - correct answer ✔✔Process of managing messages from the purpose of creating
shared meaning.
Transaction - correct answer ✔✔Between at least two people. The process of continuously sending and
receiving messages.
Model of Human communication - correct answer ✔✔
Messages - correct answer ✔✔can be verbal or non verbal, unintentional, and intentional. Four Types:
Intention Verbal, intentional nonverbal, unintentional verbal, unintentional nonverbal.
Channels - correct answer ✔✔The medium through a message is sent. It can be face-to-face or over the
internet.
Interference - correct answer ✔✔Prevents message from being received or prevents intended meaning
from being understood.
noise - correct answer ✔✔Interferes with sending and receiving of messages, doesn't just mean physical
noise like jack hammer outside, could be preoccupied with exam you have next class, can be
psychological, physiological etc.
semantic noise - correct answer ✔✔Type of noise occurs because of misunderstanding of word meaning
Filters - correct answer ✔✔Filters can be your age, gender, race, experience, etc. These filters determine
how you receive and response to a message.
1. Personality
2. Upbringing / Background
3. Race
,Intrapersonal - correct answer ✔✔Communication within a person. How you think of yourself.
Interpersonal - correct answer ✔✔Communication with another person (dyadic). Between 2 people
Interviewing - correct answer ✔✔Focused on question-answer pattern. How you think of yourself has no
correlation with how good you are.
Small group communicatio - correct answer ✔✔3+ members of a group influencing one another.
Public Communication - correct answer ✔✔Stand up, political event, lecture. Speaking to a large group
of people in av public setting
Organizational Communication - correct answer ✔✔Different cultures on interaction. decisions made at
different levels. tries to find a means to an end, goal oriented communication
Health Communication - correct answer ✔✔communication studies effective method for reducing
negative behaviors, safety, reduce smoking
Mass Communication - correct answer ✔✔Communication through technology and the media.
Five Elements to Effective Communication - correct answer ✔✔Understanding, Pleasure, Attitude
Influence, Improved relationships, and Action
Humanistic Approach to Communication - Rhetoric - correct answer ✔✔using language to persuade,
compare style of trump & obama
(examines the way people use certain language and devices to convince others)
Humanistic Approach to Communication - Interpretivist - correct answer ✔✔Looks at responses to
event, i.e. what did we learn about the USA from that event
, Humanistic Approach to Communication - Critical Scholar - correct answer ✔✔Looks at the distribution
of power in a situation and what happens when there is a shift in power.
looks at oppression & cases of inequality, why imbalances are the way they are
Qualitative - correct answer ✔✔Qualitative research collects data that are rich in detail and description.
Uses in depth interviews, ethnography, and participant observation. Ex: Liberals vs Democrats.
"work in the field"
Quantitative - correct answer ✔✔Quantitative Research seeks to uncover patterns in communication
behaviors via numbers. Uses advanced techniques and rigid testing to support/ reject hypothesis.
Steps to Scientific Research - correct answer ✔✔1. Ask a question or state a problem
2. Formulate a hypothesis or research questions
3. Think through and refine hypothesis or research questions
4. Design and conduct the observation, measurement. or experiment
5. Analyze and interpret the data
Ex: relationship between attendance and exam grades
How research is conducted - correct answer ✔✔Empirical-
objective -
Logical and consistent -
Public -
Scientific method: Empirical - correct answer ✔✔using multiple choice instead of paragraphs
allows us to take a look at certain things very carefully.. Observed and measured
carefully measured
scientific method: objective - correct answer ✔✔make rules to prevent biases from entering
trying to be fair and deciding to use data rather than beliefs/opinions
