Definitions | Components of Human Communication | Ethics | Components of Language |
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What is excessively talking with friends about problems or concerns
Co-rumination
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What is the response to a message
Feedback
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What is the standards of what is right and wrong, good and bad, mortal and immoral
Ethics
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What is the study of Sounds
Phonology
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What is dyad
Two
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What is the means through which a message is transmitted (face-to-face, cell phones, radio, TV, letters. email)
Channel
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What is the belief that there is a single correct moral standard that holds for everyone, everywhere, every time
Absolutism
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What is rules that govern word order
Syntax
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What is process of taking ideas and converting them into messages
Encoding
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What is the physical surroundings of a communication event (library vs. bar, & environmental conditions- temp., noise, lighting, time of day/week)
Setting
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What is the belief that the moral behavior varies among individuals, groups and cultures, as well as situations
Relativism
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field of study that emphasizes how language is used in specific situations to accomplish goals (ex: rules differ wen communicating in a sorority house than a faculty meeting)
Pragmatics
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What is something that represents something else and conveys meaning
Symbol
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What is any stimulus that can interfere with, or degrade, the quality of a message (can be internal such as hunger)
Noise
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What is the honest & ethical responses receivers provide to the messages of others (ex: your response to a racist joke- laugh or tell the teller how you feel)
Healthy Feedback
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What is the study of meaning
Semantics
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What is the concrete meaning of the message and the meanings associated with the message and the emotions triggered by it
Content meaning
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What is learned patterns of perception, value and behaviors that a group of people share
Culture
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What is the the balance of open-mindedness and critical attitude needed when evaluating other's messages (ask questions or interrogate the speaker as a response)
Reasoned Skepticism
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What is the affective or interpretive meaning attached to a word. EX.) using the word wise to describe an older person with long experience
Connotative meaning
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