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Why is control a defining feature of organizations? correct answers -They must learn to organize large numbers of people in specific settings -a social organization is an ordered arrangement of individual human interactions. -control process help circumscribe idiosyncratic behaviors and keep them conformant to the rational plan of organization...the co-ordination and order created out of the diverse interests and potentially diffuse behaviors of members is largely a function of control. Wh...

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Yale attitude change approach correct answers was distinctive because it provided facts about the effects on attitudes of the communicator's credibility, message appeals, and audience members' personality traits cognitive response perspective correct answers asserts that people's own mental reactions to a message play a critical role in the persuasion process, typically a more important role than the message itself, places thinking at center of persuasion process, provides method to ...

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COMM 325 Bundled Questions and Answers Latest Update 2025/2026

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COMM 325 - Midterm 2 Exam Questions with Correct Answers Latest Update verbal messages - Answers messages that use words to create meaning rhetorical theory - Answers the understanding of how humans use symbols to engage the communication process and influence an audience rhetoric - Answers using language effectively and persuasively; social influence through persuasion & compliance Ancient Greek characterization of communication: - Answers 1) Logos 2) Ethos 3) Pathos Logos - Answers log...

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COMM 325 - Exam 2 Questions with Correct Answers Latest Update oculesics - Answers study of eye behaviors, eye contact, eye movement, and the functions of eye behavior - eyes give up 80% of information scanning - Answers -used to collect information - aids in survival (physical, social, emotional) encouraging interaction - Answers -Appropriate intensity, appropriate length of time -Eye behavior that is too intense, or for too long discourages interaction expressing emotion - Answers -ey...

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COMM 325 Final Exam Questions with Correct Answers Latest Update The process in which people convince themselves to adopt new attitudes and behaviors is known as _________. - Answers Self- persuasion What distinguishes human persuasion from animal communication? - Answers Utilization of symbolic language In contemporary persuasion, symbols play a crucial role because they can have ________ meanings to different people. - Answers Multiple True/False: Manipulation in persuasion always involve...

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COMM 325 Midterm 1 Prep Questions with Correct Answers Latest Update Which of the following is an example of global interconnectedness presented in the text? - The 2011 Eastern Japan tsunami - The 2014 outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa - The debate on U.S. immigration policy - The 2011 Eastern Japan tsunami and the 2014 outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa - All three choices are correct - Answers The 2011 Eastern Japan tsunami and the 2014 outbreak of the Ebola virus in ...

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COMM 325 - EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SOLVED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE ~~~ CHAPTER ONE ~~~ - Answers Persuasion (as stated by Perloff) - Answers "a *symbolic process* in which communicators try to *convince* other people to *change* their own *attitudes or behaviors* regarding an *issue* through the transmission of a *message* in an atmosphere of *free choice*" 4. Involves the *transmission of a message* verbal or nonverbal 1. Is a *symbolic process* 2. Involves an *attempt to influ...

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How and why did the study of argument begin in ancient Greece? correct answers It started to help settle disputes that replace physical fighting with verbal combat. Your book discusses Aristotle's 4 seminal concepts of argument. What are they? correct answers The purpose of argument is to pursue probable truth. The focus of argument is on the audience. One can develop arguments by identifying issues that can usefully be addressed in support of or opposition of a claim. Argument has ethos, ...

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There are multiple components to the definition of persuasion that is given by the author. Please select ALL of the components that apply to the definition. correct answers -Involves an attempt to influence -Requires free choice -Involves the transmission of a message -People persuade themselves -A symbolic process Persuasion is: correct answers Both Positive and Negative Coercion occurs when the influence agent: correct answers -delivers a believable threat of significant physical or ...

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What are the differences between "old" and contemporary persuasion? correct answers Number of messages, speed, conduct via instructions and organizations, subtlety, complexity and mediation, digitization How do the qualities of contemporary persuasion manifest themselves in TV commercials, online advertisement, and social media (e.g., Dove ad)? correct answers Plays on our emotions/lifestyles What are the differences between human and animal persuasion (what is the one thing that di...

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Charles Perrow correct answers "The problems advanced by social scientists have been primarily the problems of human relations in an authoritarian setting." Communication correct answers the dynamic, ongoing process of creating and negotiating meanings through interactional symbolic (verbal and nonverbal) practices, including conversation, metaphors, ritals, stories, dress, and space. Crisis of Representation correct answers a challenge to the idea that knowledge consists of a body o...

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Which of the following is an example of global interconnectedness presented in the text? - The 2011 Eastern Japan tsunami - The 2014 outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa - The debate on U.S. immigration policy - The 2011 Eastern Japan tsunami and the 2014 outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa - All three choices are correct correct answers The 2011 Eastern Japan tsunami and the 2014 outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa In the 2010 census, how many U.S. citizens self-id...

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Intercultural Communication correct answers the influence of cultural norms, beliefs, and practices on the communication or shared meaning between individuals or group of people Imperatives for studying intercultural communication correct answers peace, economic, technological, demographic, self-awareness, and ethical peace imperative correct answers intercultural communication is important because of the need for peace amongst all people in order to coexist within society economic impe...

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True or false: Deception in advertising is a psychological concept, because whether or not an advertisement is considered 'deceptive' depends on what so-called 'intelligent' and 'knowledgeable' consumers believe to be true. True False correct answers False Natural human biases explain... how we might change our attitudes depending on the people we are surrounded by. ...how our own subjective thinking determines our attitudes. ...how we correctly distinguish between ou...

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Catherine asks Wes to sing up for a marathon in hopes that he will eventually agree to complete a 5K with her. Which compliance-gaining tactic is this? correct answers Door in the face What concept posits that if you expect something to occur, sometimes it does? correct answers Self-Fulfilling prophecy According to FTC, an ad can be false but not correct answers Deceptive According to Swigger, what kind of processing are individuals most likely to use for political processing? correct a...

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The process in which people convince themselves to adopt new attitudes and behaviors is known as _________. correct answers Self- persuasion What distinguishes human persuasion from animal communication? correct answers Utilization of symbolic language In contemporary persuasion, symbols play a crucial role because they can have ________ meanings to different people. correct answers Multiple True/False: Manipulation in persuasion always involves transparent communication of intentions. ...

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The state of being just, unbiased, and not influenced by emotions or personal prejudices is also known as: correct answers objectivity By 2050, world population growth is expected surpass____: correct answers 9 billion What is the preferred term for the group that "generally exercises the greatest influence on beliefs, values, perceptions, communication patterns, and customs of a culture?" correct answers dominant culture _____ involves interaction between people whose cultural p...

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Why is control a defining feature of organizations? correct answers Organizational control: dynamic communication process through which organizational stakeholders struggle to maximize their stake in an organization organizations as communicative structures of control how can we exercise control over employees to get them to function in a coordinated manner? What types of control exist in organizations? correct answers DISCIPLINARY-shift from hierarchical to decentralized and self-discipli...

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What is the Yale Model of Persuasion? correct answers -Conducted by Hovland and associates at Yale -commitment to theory-driven approach (this was the first time that this approach was translated to studying these effects) -the key question was "Who said what to whom with what effect?" -this study was interested in why messages changed attitudes and Hovland came to the conclusion that learning had a part to do with this -He promoted that to be persuaded, humans had to attend to, compre...

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open systems correct answers a system is open or closed to the degree that it can exchange information and energy with its environment. A more open system can adapt to environmental changes closed systems correct answers a system is open or closed to the degree that it can exchange information and energy with its environment. A closed system cannot adapt to environmental changes and is more likely to move toward entropy interdependence and hierarchy correct answers interdependence of parts...

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