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Com 102
Test 2
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Communication
Pre-School
10/21/2009

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Term
Idenitity
Definition
-Presented image of communicator
-How we present ourselves in social situations
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Identity management
Definition
-Managing how you present yourself in social situations
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Dramaturgical Framework
Definition
-Theatrical metaphor and dramaturgical awareness
Term
Dramaturgical Awareness
Definition
-Being aware of theatre aspect or how you act
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Performance
Definition
-All the activity of a person that occurs while he or she is present before a particular set of observers
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Audience
Definition
-Group of people watching one's performance
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Personal Front
Definition
-Age, weight, sex
Term
Physical Front
Definition
-Stuff that stays put (furniture)
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Dramatic realization
Definition
-You must act in ways that express rhe desired identity and realized image of performance audience relationship
-Conceals behaviors that are inconsistant with what your portraying
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Expressive Control
Definition
Performance needs to be in control of aspects of his or her behavior that people will use to form their opinions of you
Term
Team
Definition
-Set of individuals who cooperate in staging a performance
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Director
Definition
-2 Duties: correcting unsatisfactory behavior and allocating work
Term
Directive Dominance
Definition
-Leader and Allocator behind the scenes
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Dramatic Dominance
Definition
-Performer attempting to receive focus of attention
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Front region
Definition
-Place where performance is given
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Back region
Definition
-Place where an impression is fostered; knowingly by a performance
Term
Outisde
Definition
-Anywhere else
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Back region behavior
Definition
-Performer knowingly contradicts image in front region
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Audience Derogation
Definition
-Making fun of audience
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Staging of a performance
Definition
-Where you put on your performance
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Back Region access control
Definition
-Making sure back region is occupied by right place
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Front region access control
Definition
-There are only certain people who want to see the performance
Term
Audience segregation
Definition
-Switch definition of situation so intruder fits
-Treat intruder as if they should have been there all along
Term
Unmeant gesture
Definition
-Accidental gesture such as spilling on customer
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Inopportune Intrusion
Definition
-Intruding accidentally or because of bad timing
Term
Faux Pas
Definition
-Significance of intentional act is not understood by act (later realize it was stupid)
Term
Creating a scene
Definition
-To avoid this all participants need to behave certain way
Term
Dramaturgical Loyalty
Definition
-Consistently acting loyal towards others
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Dramaturgical discipline
Definition
-One's teammates are not intentionally creating disruptions
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Dramaturgical circumspection
Definition
-Pay attention to potential consequences
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Avoidance of back region
Definition
-Don't just go into back room of a kitchen
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Tactful inattention
Definition
-In front of outsiders
-Implicit ignoring of people (sitting to close to person at dinner)
Term
Consideration
Definition
-Showing consideration for others
Term
Disclaimers
Definition
-Verbal device said before you may say something that might reflect badly
Term
Correctives
Definition
-Used after you said something to modify negative implications of an impending action/statement
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Excuses
Definition
-Acknowledges act was wrong but denies responsibility
Term
Justifications
Definition
-Accepts responsibility but denies it was wrong
Term
Apologies
Definition
-Admits it was wrong/takes responsibility and asks for forgiveness
Term
When are people presenting an identity
Definition
-When interacting socially
Term
In what ways can dramaturgical awareness vary in everyday life
Definition
-Can vary on how someone is acting; some may be very aware they are screwing up where as if in a job interview you have to be aware
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What can a performer do if an attempt at audience segregation fails
Definition
-Make the intruder fit in or act like they were supposed to be there the whole time
Term
Differences between kinds of performance disruptions
Definition
-Inopportune Intrusion vs. Faux Pas
Term
Claim
Definition
-Statement making an argument for something
Term
Grounds
Definition
-Specific info relied upon to support claim
Term
Warrant
Definition
-General statement justifying grounds as the basis for the claim
Term
Backing
Definition
-Support for ground or warrant
Term
Rebuttal
Definition
-Statement that identifies possible exceptions to claim
Term
Qualifier
Definition
-Word or phrase that indicates a force of strength in which a claim is advanced
Term
Acceptability
Definition
-Argument on its own is believeable and is presented in such a way
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Relevance
Definition
-Grounds that are introduced for a claim should be relevant
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Sufficiency
Definition
-Is taking argument as a whole enough evidence to suggest truth
Term
Fallacy
Definition
-Ways arguments can go wrong
Term
What are various ways argument has been conceptualized
Definition
-Fight, conflict, claim
Term
How are justification, correctness, and persuasiveness related
Definition
-All pertain to the claim
-J: claim needs to be justified/have support
-C: Right or wrong
-P: Can be persuasive with weak justification
Term
What are different argument prototypes and what distinguishes them from one another
Definition
-Classification:
-Generalization:
-Cause to effect:
-Effect to cause:
-Analogy:
-Authority:
Term
What criteria is available for evaluating the quality of an argument
Definition
-Acceptability, relevance, and sufficiency
Term
Compliance
Definition
-When a person accepts influence because he/she hopes to achieve favorite outcome
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Perceived concern
Definition
-Behavior actually matters
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Perceived control
Definition
-Idea that person persuading has control over rewards/punishment
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Means control
Definition
-Idea that someone has control over another person; primary source of control
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Perceived scrutiny
Definition
-When you believe you are not being watched
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Self-defining relationship
Definition
-Process of social influence
-Qualities influence how you define yourself
Term
Internalization
Definition
-Said to occur when person actually believes in the value of the new opinion or behavior
Term
Competence (product/process)
Definition
-Person in position to know truth
-Product: how much you know about topic
-Process: ability to communicate topic
Term
Pratfall effect
Definition
-Someone has high product skills so credibility increases
Term
Trustworthiness
Definition
-Concerns the communicator telling the truth and/or being unbiased/fair
Term
Extroversion
Definition
-Willingness to talk to others
Term
Sociability
Definition
-Ability to have fun/pleasant interacting with others
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Example
Definition
-Used to show reasoning behind argument
Term
Statistical summary information
Definition
-Summary of examples through statistics
Term
Subliminal Stimulus
Definition
Stimulus a person cannot identify
Term
Backward Masking
Definition
-Form of subliminal/persuasive message
Term
Receiver involvement
Definition
-Degree of personal relevance for a message recipient
Term
Channel
Definition
-Audio, face to face, or written message
Term
Explain the process of social influence
Definition
-Internalization, compliance, identification
Term
What trait or characteristic increases one's effectiveness at persuading others
Definition
-Internalization (credibility)
-Compliance (attractiveness)
-Identification (means control)
Term
Hierarchy of social influence processes
Definition
-Compliance, internalization
Term
What are the dimensions of credibility and how high do people want to be in each dimension
Definition
-Prefer high credibility
Term
Complexities and caveats regarding the processes of social influence
Definition
-Not mutually exclusive
-Lots of things are factors
-Different processes at different times
Term
Describe the general format of experiments studying the effects of persuasive messages
Definition
-Designed to make unambiguous conclusions
-Pretest-high cred. or low cred.-post test
Term
Which is more persuasive stats or examples
Definition
-Examples
Term
Three types of subliminal message elements discussed in lecture
Definition
1. Briefly presented stimuli
2. Sexual imagery on words hidden in pictures
3. Backward masking
Term
Persuasive effects of using subliminal message elements
Definition
-1956: done through theatre and was successful
Term
How does receiver involvement influence persuasive outcomes
Definition
-Communicator characteristics come into play
-If someone is engaged/unengaged this affects other variables
Term
How does message persuasiveness vary by channel
Definition
-Overall does not matter greatly
-Face to face is most influential
Term
Sportsframe
Definition
-Natural connection between sports and drama
Term
Objectivity
Definition
-Media coverage must appeal to be objective
Term
Independence
Definition
-Journalists free from political influence
Term
Balance
Definition
-All serious candidates should be presented without favoring or disafavoring
Term
Non-evaluation
Definition
-Describing things with just the facts
Term
Entertainment
Definition
-Attracts an audience
Term
Informativeness
Definition
-Material must tell us something
Term
Brevity
Definition
-Coverage must be brief
Term
Channel effects
Definition
-Voters don't learn very much from watching news
-Invites people to be synical
Term
Agenda setting/agenda setting hypothesis
Definition
-The attention given to the news/media influences the publics perception of important issues
Term
Correlational designs
Definition
-Amount of media coverage -> perceived importance of message
Term
Cross lagged correlational designs
Definition
-2 correlational designs intersecting
Term
Experiment
Definition
-Manipulate independent variable
Term
Face ratio
Definition
-Actors with high face ratios are powerful, good looking, intelligent, ambitious
Term
When sportsframe is applied to political campaigns what are the central questions asked about campaign
Definition
-Who is winning?
-How are they winning?
Term
What is the problem, proposal, performance scheme and how does it differ from the sportsframe
Definition
-Asking what are the central problems to voters
-Analyzing performance to make suggestions to perform in the future
Term
In what ways are journalists constrained and how are these constraints related to sportsframe
Definition
-Media coverage must appear to be objective, must draw and audience
-Relates to sportsframe because also entertaining
Term
How do journalists establish that their news coverage is objective
Definition
Term
What are the main effects of sportsframe
Definition
-Voters don't learn much from watching news on politics and positions on issues
-Invites people to be cynical
Term
What do we know about agenda setting
Definition
-Attention given to issues by news media
-Influences the publics perceptions of the importance of issues
Term
Media
Definition
-Collectively portrays the world
Term
Violence
Definition
-Effects of how media portrays violence
Term
Prosocial effects
Definition
-Learn what's appropriate through observation
-Have emotional responses to t.v that affect our real world responses
Term
Third person effects
Definition
-Think things effect others but no self
Term
What have scholars concluded about how minority members are depicted in the media
Definition
-Depicted as the minority based on lack of jobs and coverage in media
Term
How do entertaining media potentially facilitate stereotyping
Definition
-Few minorities
-Media creates false identity
Term
How does interpersonal contact influence the tendency to stereotype
Definition
-More likely to stereotype based off of personal experience (asian driving poorly)
Term
How prevalent is violent content in the media
Definition
-Theorized that violence in media and video games effects peoples actions/thinking
Term
What have scholars concluded about the effects of media violence and how the effects are portrayed in the media
Definition
-There is some correlation
-Violent television causes more violence in children versus a show with action
-Cross lags have shown violence in the media does cause personal violence
Term
What moderates the relationship between media violence and aggression
Definition
-If violence is punished then people are less inclined to do it
-If not punished they are more inclined
-If violence is shown with harm and pain then that will lesser violence
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