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Adventures in human Comm Exam 1
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Communication
Undergraduate 1
09/27/2012

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Quintilian
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last of the great classic theorist "Good men speaking Good"
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Augustine
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foolish to take its stand unarmed against falsehood
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Natural signs
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signs from god
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conventional signs
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arbitiarily created by humans
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James golden's modern age
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Before 1660-sin
after 1660-more secular
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Douglas Ehniger 4 diretions of rhetorical study
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Classical approach, physcholgoical, belletristic, elocutionary
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classical approach
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recover insights of classical rhetorics and adapt them into modern age
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phychological/ epistemogical
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trying to understand a scienctific way how ppl could influence one another through speech
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belletristic
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writing/speeching through art
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Elocutionary
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intrusction to improve speaking verbal and nonverbal presentation
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francis bacon
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careles thinkers because of emotion
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Idols of bacon
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Cave-indy prejudices we bring with us because of our backround/personailties
market-social in nature and center on imprecise use of lanuage
theatre- accept fashionable ideas uncritically
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Rene Decartes and John locke's veiw
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truth can be contained by discourse grounded in a understanding of human rationality.
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Frank Dance
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126 definitions of comm
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defintion
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accurately records & describes something that already exists
most mundane objects can have many definations
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Comm intentional?
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not how it is intended how it is interpated
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commicuation symbolic?
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#, words, graphic designs, facial expresions, body movements, physical appearance
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family concepts Board vs Narrow
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broad-good when emphasizing between nonhuman/human
narrow- good for focusing on a particular kind of comm
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spoken symbolic interaction
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way symbols are used to create a common meaning and to share that meaning with one another.
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nonverbal interactoin
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unintentional behavior
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model
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abstract representation of a process, description of a structure
helps how a process works
orgaize our thinkings, generates research ?'s, make predictions
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model process
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form and function of the process
stimulate creativity by building models & what we may have overlooked
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explanatory function
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dividing a process into consituent parts
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prediction function
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futre ?s what ? if ?s
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control function
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control of a function
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drawbacks of models
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misleading/oversimplifying of a process
make many assumptions
many ways to modle a single process
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physcholgocial
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inside the heads of comm as they trasmit and receive messages
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social construction
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comm as process, tools prived by culture
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pragmatic
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system of interlocking, interdepent, moves pattern over time
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patterns simplest
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two act sequence
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common sense
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knowing of biased
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heuristics
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rules of thumb that allow us to avoid carefully information process
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Scholary research
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? oriented
methology
replicable
self crital
cummulative/self connecting
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? oriented
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state of affairs that needs explaing
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methodological
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systematic order with built in guaratees that the findings will be acucate as possible
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replicable
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must be repeatable
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self critial
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make effort to disprove own theories
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cummulative/self connecting
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learn all old studies and built off of them
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common tasks in comm inquiry
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1. Formulate a research ?
choose a research methology
design a samplling stragety
gather and analyze data
interpet the data and share results
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conceptual defination
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explains the meaning of the term in a general abstract way
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operational definition
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explains how the term will be measured in a study
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rehrtoical critism
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seeks to explain rhetocial act
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rhetoical act
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any act of comm that infulences the believe or behavor of an audience refiment of the very day critcal impluse. It is a systematic way of descoding, analyzing, evaluating a given comm act
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Ethographic research
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watching/observing/ others (rules that guide ppl's actions)
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ethographic steps
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covert role- undercover role
over rule- they know the scienctist is there
field notes-very lengthy
informant-have one of the people take you around
presupposition less- put side own norms/values
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survey research
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ask ?s how to ask and to what people, then draws conclusions to the data
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population
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the entire group the researcher wants
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sample
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fraction of the group the research wants
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sampling plan
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symetic method for choosing respondents
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probabilty sampling
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assues 2 general kinds of sampling plans. Non probablity and probabilty
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simple random sampling
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each memberof the population has a= chance of being a sample
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non probabilty sampling
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some members may have no choice of being included
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accidendital sampling
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usues most conventent people as possible
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double barrel ?s
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asking serval ?s at once
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leading ?s
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indicate and preform respose
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experimental research
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interested in cause and effect
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effect
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dependent variable-explain
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cause
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independent variable-suspected cause
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Performance Research
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Selecting, Playing, Testing, Choosing, Repeating, Presenting
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Model of Communication Chapter 2
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Helps us visualize communication
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Good Definition
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accurately records and describes something that already exits
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Discovery
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understanding the world and expressing that understanding in a definition
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Construction
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We each have different needs and experiences, our individual understanding will often vary
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Breadth
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how broad or narrow we want communication to be. Communication can be intentional or unintentional
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Sender Based Communication
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Communication has a central interest, situations in which a source transmits a message with conscious intent
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Receiver Based
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Communication is the transmission of information, a human process through which we make sense out of the world and share the sense with others.
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Family Concepts of human communication
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Spoken symbolic interaction, Nonverbal interaction, interpersonal communication, small group communication, public communication, intercultural communication, organizational communication
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Spoken symbolic Communication
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Way people use symbols to create a common meaning to share that meaning with one another.
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Nonverbal Interaction
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Unspoken, often unintentional behavior that accompanies verbal communication and helps fully interpret its meaning
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Small Group Communication
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How small collections of people can work together to discuss and solve problems
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Public Communication
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How public speakers sway audiences
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Intercultural Communication
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How people from different cultures with different values and understandings, can come to understand and accept one another
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Organizational Communication
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How communication plays out in business and industrial settings
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Models
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an abstract representation of a process, a description of its structure or function
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Explanatory Model Function
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dividing a process into parts and showing us how the parts are connected
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Prediticive Function
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Allow us to answer if then questions
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Control Function
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Guide our behavior and show us what exactly went wrong in a process
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Draw Backs to Models
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Misleading, many ways to a single process, models make assumptions about the process
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Pscyhological Model
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Indy is a sender/reciever who endcodes and decodes meanings
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Mental Sets
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person's beliefs, values, attuide, and feelings
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Noise
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any that intrupts a message from a sender to a receiver
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Laws approach
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cause and effect laws that connect commication variables
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Social Constructionist Model
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Communication is a process whereby people in groups, using the tools provided by their culture, create collective representations of reality.
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Rules approach
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Rules research believe that human behavior is not so much caused as chosen: to accomplish their goals, people choose certain lines of action and follow certain rules laid down by their cultures.
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Ethnography
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Role taken on. The covert Rule. Arizona study of student life
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Methogical Research
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Systematic and organized, can be repeated, self connecting. Phones in mass media class
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Pragmatic Model
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System of interlocking interdependent behaviors that become patterned over time. John and Jane flirting and drinking
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Systems approach
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Describing interdependent patterns of behavior rather than individual behavior. Looks at the structure, function, and evolution of a communication system.
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Reinforces
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makes someone else's behavior more likely. John and Jane example
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Cultural Studies
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Power is exercised in communication.
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Glass Celing
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Sexism in the work place. The way people are because of how they were raised
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Dell Hymes
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Ethnography of Communication
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Neo-Classical
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approach to similar to classical
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Contempory Period
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Should be studied sciencetificly. Francis Bacon leading rhetorician
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De Carte
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I think therefore, I am. Mind and body dualism.
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Rationalist
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physcological persepective of the study of communication. How it is observed an measured.
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Sides of Communicaton
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Light Side vs Dark Side
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Sir David Attenborugh
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FIlm maker
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Homoerictis
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upwright men
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Human writting
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5000 years ago and was a business transaction
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Darwin
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What walks survives, what doesn't doesn't
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Cities
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allowed people to congated, grow together in commerce, communitication, and agruiculuter
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Socrates
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Against writting, believed in Face to face communciation.
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Video in Class
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As long as their has been human there has been human communication.
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Human commuication
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10,000 years ago
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Golden Age of Greece
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2500 years ago.
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Ciecero
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Invented the 5 Cannons
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