Language 1 | Culture | Language 2 | Perceptual Processes and Cognition | Understanding and Memory |
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What is the number of languages being spoken around the world, and the percentage of them in danger of extinction?
6,000-7,000; 50% in danger
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What is co-culture?
A group that exists within a larger dominant culture but different from the dominant culture in one or more significant ways.
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What is a referent?
This is what you think of or refer to when you see or hear the symbol.
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What is the most important communication skill (according to Dr. Parks)?
Understanding how other person might
perceive the message. |
What is contested memory?
Disagreements about memory that can happen in couples, groups, communities, and cultures.
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What is Connotative Meaning?
My personalized meaning for a word, a meaning that reflects my identity and experience. Your
receiver's ________ will be different than yours. Also referred to as the implicit meaning. |
What is a collectivist society?
People see their identities in terms of the group, prioritize relationships over individual goals, emphasize loyalty to group over personal desires, and follow group norms and rules.
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What is paralanguage (or paralinguistic codes)?
Vocal but nonverbal. Includes pitch, rate, inflection, volume, and pronunciation.
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What are affect displays?
Displays of emotion on the face, but may involve other parts of the body as well. (Anger, happiness, disgust, surprise, sadness, and fear) We are capable of thousands of expressions; these basic
emotions are displayed at the same way in all culures (but w |
What is fallible memory?
The idea that certain factors affect our memories, and we are capable of making errors or mistakes.
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What is Syntactics? (One of four levels of language- phonetic, semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic)
Grammar or sets of rules and patterns for forming words into larger thought units such as phrases
and sentences. Word order matters. |
What is communication and transportation?
Two factors that create cultural
fragmentation and mixing. |
What is proxemics?
The use of space and distance to send messages.
Humans are territorial animals, we mark and defend space. For example, caution no trespassing, keep out, private property, etc |
What is the horn effect?
When we already think negatively about someone, then we place less weight on positive information.
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What is system 2 (or peripheral) processing?
Slower, more effortful, deliberate processing. What we mean when we think "thinking."
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What is linguistic determinism?
The idea that language determines the way you think.
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What is ambient communication (or ambient culture)?
Information you assume everybody knows, information you hear many times and in many places (the stuff you take for granted).
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What is a shibboleth?
A word whose pronunciation identifies its speaker as being a member or not a member of a particular group.
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What is priming?
The first few pieces of info you receive to shape your response to later info. First impressions have more influence than later impressions.
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What is transactive retrieval?
Thinking who in a group would be most likely to have remembered something.
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What is jargon?
Group cohesion and efficient communication are two reasons groups use ________.
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What is Prof. Parks’ advice for improving communication with someone from another culture?
Identifying and discussing common errors made by people from your culture in a new culture is one of these tips.
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What is a semantic differential scale?
Designed to measure the connotative meaning
of objects, events, and concepts. The connotations are used to derive the attitude towards the given object, event, or concept. |
What is selective perception?
We organize stimuli into some pattern or we interpret them by relating them to past experiences and expectations.
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What are the three dimensions of affective meaning?
1. Evaluative (good vs. bad)
2. Potency (strong vs. weak) 3. Activity (active vs. passive) |