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UCSB Comm 1 Midterm #1 Exam Practice
Questions and Answers
What is communication? - ANSWER✔✔-•Discipline that grew out of other disciplines.
•Process by which individuals use symbols, signs, and behaviors to exchange information.
• Is also a systematic cognitive process meaning it doesn't just happen; there are patents and norms
people follow
-Encoding and decoding of the messages that are being transmitted
Encoding - ANSWER✔✔-Making/putting into words
Intrapersonal Communications - ANSWER✔✔-•Communication within a person
•Talking to self, dairy, etc
•Focuses on how we think or process info about other people (e.g. making attributions or forming
impressions
Attribution - ANSWER✔✔-Expressing one's self
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Interpersonal Communications - ANSWER✔✔-•Communication with another dyad(pairs of individuals)
[e.g. partner, brother, family]
•Can be face to face or mediated
• focus is on relational development and Intimacy (e.g. Making friends or conflict)
Intergroup/Intercultural - ANSWER✔✔-•Communication between members of different groups or
cultures(e.g. Age groups, gender, religion)
• Focus is on interaction and identity based on group memberships (ingroup/outgroup communication)
Ingroup/outgroup - ANSWER✔✔-Same/different
Small group - ANSWER✔✔-•talking about people working together
•interaction among 3 or more people
•Focus is on how groups interact, achieve goals, make decisions(leadership)
Organizational - ANSWER✔✔-•Communication among other organizations (or between different
organizations)
•Focus is on formal and informal networks, rules, and norms in an org(e.g. Leadership, collaboration
mostly within a company workplace)
Public - ANSWER✔✔-•1 or a few individuals to an audience
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• face to face but with a "distance"
• focus' on public speaking (e.g. Rhetoric, performance)
Mass - ANSWER✔✔-•Mediated messages disseminated(spread)on a large scale, have to be mediated to
go to large
• Traditionally professional communicators, but can be anyone
•Focus is on effects of messages on audiences or media role in society/culture(e.g. Tv effects;news
coverage, newspaper, radio)
LINEAR MODEL of COMMUNICATION - ANSWER✔✔-•scholars proposed that a sender originated
communication with words of actions constituting the message
• The message is then carried through a channel(air and sound waves, written or visual, over telephone
lines, cables, or electronic transmissions) along the way some interference might occur like noise
INTERACTION MODEL - ANSWER✔✔-•Shows communication as a 2-directional process that incorporates
feedback into communication between sender and receiver
•There is feedback...There is response
COMPETENT COMMUNICATION MODEL - ANSWER✔✔-•Not only does it include feedback, but also
shows communication as ongoing.
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UCSB Comm 1 Midterm #1 Exam Practice
Questions and Answers
What is communication? - ANSWER✔✔-•Discipline that grew out of other disciplines.
•Process by which individuals use symbols, signs, and behaviors to exchange information.
• Is also a systematic cognitive process meaning it doesn't just happen; there are patents and norms
people follow
-Encoding and decoding of the messages that are being transmitted
Encoding - ANSWER✔✔-Making/putting into words
Intrapersonal Communications - ANSWER✔✔-•Communication within a person
•Talking to self, dairy, etc
•Focuses on how we think or process info about other people (e.g. making attributions or forming
impressions
Attribution - ANSWER✔✔-Expressing one's self
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Interpersonal Communications - ANSWER✔✔-•Communication with another dyad(pairs of individuals)
[e.g. partner, brother, family]
•Can be face to face or mediated
• focus is on relational development and Intimacy (e.g. Making friends or conflict)
Intergroup/Intercultural - ANSWER✔✔-•Communication between members of different groups or
cultures(e.g. Age groups, gender, religion)
• Focus is on interaction and identity based on group memberships (ingroup/outgroup communication)
Ingroup/outgroup - ANSWER✔✔-Same/different
Small group - ANSWER✔✔-•talking about people working together
•interaction among 3 or more people
•Focus is on how groups interact, achieve goals, make decisions(leadership)
Organizational - ANSWER✔✔-•Communication among other organizations (or between different
organizations)
•Focus is on formal and informal networks, rules, and norms in an org(e.g. Leadership, collaboration
mostly within a company workplace)
Public - ANSWER✔✔-•1 or a few individuals to an audience
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• face to face but with a "distance"
• focus' on public speaking (e.g. Rhetoric, performance)
Mass - ANSWER✔✔-•Mediated messages disseminated(spread)on a large scale, have to be mediated to
go to large
• Traditionally professional communicators, but can be anyone
•Focus is on effects of messages on audiences or media role in society/culture(e.g. Tv effects;news
coverage, newspaper, radio)
LINEAR MODEL of COMMUNICATION - ANSWER✔✔-•scholars proposed that a sender originated
communication with words of actions constituting the message
• The message is then carried through a channel(air and sound waves, written or visual, over telephone
lines, cables, or electronic transmissions) along the way some interference might occur like noise
INTERACTION MODEL - ANSWER✔✔-•Shows communication as a 2-directional process that incorporates
feedback into communication between sender and receiver
•There is feedback...There is response
COMPETENT COMMUNICATION MODEL - ANSWER✔✔-•Not only does it include feedback, but also
shows communication as ongoing.
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