Virginia Tech COMM 1014 Exam #2
Review Sheet questions well
answered
3 disadvantages of speech that faculty faces - correct answer ✔✔ 1. Late arrival
2. Lack of a clear definition
3. Lingering in Plato's shadow
4 changes that took place which heavily influenced a renaissance - correct answer ✔✔
Technology
Totalitarianism
Rise of big science
Cultural fragmentation
the two approaches to today's study of human communication - correct answer ✔✔
development of shared meaning through messages
the relational process of creating and interpreting messages that elicit a response
what rhetoricians and communication scientists do - correct answer ✔✔ a scholar who applies
the scientific method to describe, predict, and explain recurring forms of human behavior
defining communication: - correct answer ✔✔ tells us which behaviors count as communication
and which does not, essential characteristics of communication
Definition - correct answer ✔✔ Latin term, "to determine, bring to an end or settle" clarifying
concepts by indicating their boundaries
, definition based on discovery vs. definition based on construction; - correct answer ✔✔
understanding the world and expressing that understanding in a definition are objective
processes of discovery: a single correct definition exists for everything we wish to understand
2. assume most of the things we try to define are human constructions, experiences translate
into comprehensions so understandings vary from each individual: construction
intentionality - correct answer ✔✔ whether or not someone meant to send a message
four reasons covered in class as answers to the question, "Why study communication?"; -
correct answer ✔✔ pragmatic (we all have to do it)
complex (symbols used)
dynamic (always changing)
paradox of reflectivity (to study communication you need to communicate)
four qualities of a good theorist; - correct answer ✔✔ curious, willing to be surprised, how
much you want to know about the world, appreciate perspectives
descriptions used in class for ways of thinking about informal theorizing; - correct answer ✔✔
ask meaningful questions, collect evidence, come up with a conclusion
the nature of communication (transfer, transaction, accomplishment, a simple, single event); -
correct answer ✔✔ theories are only as good as they are practical, they help you better
understand human communicative behavior from different perspectives.
To speak is to write is to act
the working definition of "communication" provided in class (from Anderson & Ross); - correct
answer ✔✔ "the development of shared meaning through messages"
Review Sheet questions well
answered
3 disadvantages of speech that faculty faces - correct answer ✔✔ 1. Late arrival
2. Lack of a clear definition
3. Lingering in Plato's shadow
4 changes that took place which heavily influenced a renaissance - correct answer ✔✔
Technology
Totalitarianism
Rise of big science
Cultural fragmentation
the two approaches to today's study of human communication - correct answer ✔✔
development of shared meaning through messages
the relational process of creating and interpreting messages that elicit a response
what rhetoricians and communication scientists do - correct answer ✔✔ a scholar who applies
the scientific method to describe, predict, and explain recurring forms of human behavior
defining communication: - correct answer ✔✔ tells us which behaviors count as communication
and which does not, essential characteristics of communication
Definition - correct answer ✔✔ Latin term, "to determine, bring to an end or settle" clarifying
concepts by indicating their boundaries
, definition based on discovery vs. definition based on construction; - correct answer ✔✔
understanding the world and expressing that understanding in a definition are objective
processes of discovery: a single correct definition exists for everything we wish to understand
2. assume most of the things we try to define are human constructions, experiences translate
into comprehensions so understandings vary from each individual: construction
intentionality - correct answer ✔✔ whether or not someone meant to send a message
four reasons covered in class as answers to the question, "Why study communication?"; -
correct answer ✔✔ pragmatic (we all have to do it)
complex (symbols used)
dynamic (always changing)
paradox of reflectivity (to study communication you need to communicate)
four qualities of a good theorist; - correct answer ✔✔ curious, willing to be surprised, how
much you want to know about the world, appreciate perspectives
descriptions used in class for ways of thinking about informal theorizing; - correct answer ✔✔
ask meaningful questions, collect evidence, come up with a conclusion
the nature of communication (transfer, transaction, accomplishment, a simple, single event); -
correct answer ✔✔ theories are only as good as they are practical, they help you better
understand human communicative behavior from different perspectives.
To speak is to write is to act
the working definition of "communication" provided in class (from Anderson & Ross); - correct
answer ✔✔ "the development of shared meaning through messages"
