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COMS Exam 2
Exam 2
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Communication
Undergraduate 1
10/13/2011

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What are some examples of demographic information?
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Age, generation, race, gender, ethnicity, education, occupation
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What are some examples of psychological information?
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knowledge, beliefs, thoughts, concerns, values, interests, mood, attitudes, ideas
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What are some examples of situational information?
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occassion, time, location, size of audience, type of audience, room, lights
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What are the 2 "C"s of Supporting Materials?
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Comparisons and Contrast
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What are the 2 "D"s of Supporting Materials?
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Definitions and Descriptions
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What are the 3 "E"s of Supporting Materials?
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Brief Examples, Extended Examples, Hypothetical Examples
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What is the "S" of Supporting Materials?
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Statistics
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What are the 2 "T"s of Supporting Materials?
Definition
Expert Testimony and Peer Testimony
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What are 5 ways to analyze your audience?
Definition
1. Ask someone who asked you to speak
2. Ask a former speaker
3. Ask member of the audience
4. Research the organization
5. Assessing feedback from the audience (surveys and questionnaires)
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What are the 5 Selectivities and what are their definitions?
Definition
1. Selective Exposure- what we choose to expose ourselves to (family, school, friends, TV)
2. Selective Attention- what we listen to/read (TV, books)
3. Selective Organization- whenever you are exposed to one thing and not to another (christian/nonchristian, beautiful/not chistian)
4. Selective Interpretation- our attitudes, how we view people, whether something is important (racism, good/evil)
5. Selective Recall- what you remember (phone numbers, birthdays)
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What are 4 Connectivities?
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1. Internal preview- what's coming next (today we will discuss)
2. Internal Summary- what's happened (so far we have covered)
3. Transition- phrase or word used to link ideas
4. Sign Posts- word or phrase that indicates to an audience the direction a speaker will take next (in other words, too, also, my second point is)
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What are the 5 Patterns of Organization?
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1. Chronological
2. Spatial
3. Causal
4. Problem/Solution
5. Topical
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An influence process that includes any behavior that helps clarify a group's purpose or guides the group to achieve its goals
Definition
Leadership
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A person who is assigned or selected or who emerges from a group to guide or provide direction toward reaching the group's goals
Definition
Leader
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Needs related to the content of a task and all behaviors that lead to the completion of it
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Task needs
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Needs related to organize and developing a group so that the members can realize personal satisfaction from working together
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Maintenance needs
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A dimension of leadership that focuses on getting the job done
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Initiation structure
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A dimension of leadership that focuses on establishing good interpersonal relationships and on being liked by group members
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Consideration
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A leader who has complete control
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Autocratic leader
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A leader who shares control
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Democratic leader
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A leader who gives up control
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Laissez-faire leader
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A list of all topics to be discussed during a meeting
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Agenda
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A question that asks for the meaning or explanation of something
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Question of interpretation
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A procedure that helps group members negotiate consensus by collaboration through the expression of each differing need and a search for alternatives to meet those needs
Definition
Principled negotiation
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What are the 4 types of discussion questions?
Definition
1. Fact
2. Interpretation
3. Value
4. Policy
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The process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting information to give personal meaning to the communication we receive
Definition
Perception
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Explains how our minds process and store simple to complex information
Definition
Cognitive Complexity
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Something that incites or quickens action, feeling, or thought
Definition
Stimulus
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Sorting of one stimulus from another
Definition
Selection
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The deliberate choices we make to experience or to avoid particular stimuli
Definition
Selective exposure
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Focusing on specific stimuli while ignoring or downplaying other stimuli
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Selective attention
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Processing, storing, and retrieval of information that we have already selected, organized, and interpreted
Definition
Selective retention
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Filling in the details so that a partially perceived entity appears to be complete
Definition
Closure
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The grouping of two or more stimuli that are close to one another
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Proximity
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The grouping of stimuli that resemble one another in size, shape, color or other traits
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Similarity
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Assigning of meaning to stimuli
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Interpretation
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A fixed, previously determined view of events, objects, or people
Definition
Perceptual set
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The categorizing of events, objects, ad people without regard to unique individual characteristics or qualities
Definition
Stereotyping
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The complex process through which we attempt to understand the reasons behind others behavior
Definition
Attribution
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Perceiving others as acting as they do because they are "that kind of person" rather than because of any external factors that may have influenced their behavior
Definition
Attribution error
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Learned behaviors that are communicated from on generation to another to promote individual and social survival
Definition
Culture
Term
A learned belief that our own culture is superior to all others
Definition
Ethnocentrism
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Perceiving one's own culture as superior and having a very narrow view of cultures other than your own
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Culture myopia
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Taking on a broader worldview and opening our minds to different cultures as merely being different and not judging them as inferior because they are different
Definition
Cultural relativism
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A socially constructed concept related to masculine and feminine behaviors that are learned
Definition
Gender
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Ideas, testimony, conclusions or judgements of witnesses or recognized authorities
Definition
Expert opinion
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A global information system that allows users to access information from the internet
Definition
World Wide Web
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Opinions or conclusions of witnesses or recognized authorities
Definition
Testimony
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The overall goal of a speech, usually one of three overlapping functions: to inform, persuade, entertain
Definition
General purpose
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A speech that enhances an audience's knowledge and understanding by explaining what something means, how something works, or how something is done
Definition
Informative speech
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A speech that attempts to change listeners' attitudes or behaviors by advocating or trying to gain acceptance of the speaker's point of view
Definition
Persuasive speech
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A speech that provides enjoyment and amusement
Definition
Entertainment speech
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Single phrase that defines precisely what is to be accomplished in a speech
Definition
Specific purpose
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A sentence that states specifically what is going to be discussed in a speech
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Thesis
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The collection and interpretation of data about characteristics, attitudes, values, and beliefs of an audience
Definition
Audience analysis
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The collection of individuals who have come together to watch or listen to someone or something
Definition
Audience
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A person who is required to hear a particular speech
Definition
Captive participant
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A person who choses to listen to a particular speech
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Voluntary participant
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The collection and interpretation of characteristics of individuals, excluding attitudes and beliefs
Definition
Demographic analysis
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A carefully planned and executed person-to-person Q&A session during which the speaker tries to discover specific info that will help in the preparation of a speech
Definition
Survey interview
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A set of written questions that is distributed to respondents to gather desire info
Definition
Questionnaire
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The principal subdivisions of a speech
Definition
Main points
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A visual organizational strategy that uses words or symbols to identify the concepts and their connections to each other
Definition
Mind mapping
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A speaker's believability, based on the audience's evaluation of the speaker's competence, experience, character and charisma
Definition
Credibility
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