Speech Test 1

What are the elements of communication?

People, Messages, Channels, Noise, Context, Feedback, and Effect.

What are ways in which a low self-concenpt manifests itself?

Eating disorder, Self-mutilation, and Dress

What are the principles of communication?

Communication is: rule given, dynamic, unrepeatable, has no opposite, affected by culture, influenced by ethics, competence based, and is transformed by media and technology.

What are the Divisions of the Johari Window?

Open, Blind, Hidden, and Unknown

What are Hall's Distances? (4)

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What are the areas of nonverbal communication?

Body language, Voice, Space, Colors, Time, Touch, and Smell.

What are the factors which affect word meanings?

Time, experience, place, gender, culture, and power

What are components of self-concept?

Self image and self esteem.

What are generalizations about non-verbal? (4)

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What are different types of body language?

Emblems, illustrators, regulators, affect displays, and adaptors.

What are gender differences in communication?

Females talk more, males are more straight forward, females are more tentative, and males give more one word responses.

What are characteristics of power talkers?

They make definitive statements, they talk with less hesitation, and they use less small talk.

What are the criteria that dictates rules of space and touch?

Age, sex, culture, status, power talker.

What is the definition of: Word

Symbols

What is the definition of: Language

A unified system of symbols

What is the definition of: Denotative

The dictionary meaning of a word

What is the definition of: Connotative

One's personal meaning of a word

What is the definition of: Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

The belief that the labels we use help shape the way we think, our worldview, and our behavior.

What is the definition of: Communication

The deliberate or accidental transfer of meaning

What is the definition of: Mall speak

Informal talk (like, you know...)

What is the definition of: Self-fulfilling prophecy

A prediction or an expectation that comes true simply because one acts as if it were true.

What is the definition of: Closure

The tendency to fill in missing perceptual pieces in order to perceive a complete world.

What is the definition of: Allness

The erroneous belief that any one person can know all there is to know about anything

What is the definition of: Perceptual sets

Expectations that produce a readiness to process experience in a predetermined way.

What is the definition of: Primacy effect

The ability of one's first impression to color subsequent impressions.

What is the definition of: Paralanguage

Vocal cues that accompany spoken language.

What is the definition of: Feedback

Information returned to a message source

What is the definition of: Stereotype

A generalization about people, places, or events held by many members of a society.

What is the definition of: Civil inattention

The polite ignoring of others so as not to infringe on their privacy.

What is the definition of: Markers

Items that reserve one's space.

What is the definition of: Biorhythms

Patterned biological functions

What is the definition of: Minimal response cues

Male characteristics

What is the definition of: Pygmalion effect

The principle that states that we fulfill the expectation of others.

What is the definition of: Galatea effect

The principle that states that we fulfill our own expectations.