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Communication
Undergraduate 1
09/21/2009

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Channel
Definition
The route by which messages flow between source and reciever
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Communication
Definition
The simultaneous shareing and creating of meaning.
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Communication Competence
Definition
The ability to take part in effective communication through skill and understandings
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Context
Definition
The circumstance in which communication happens
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Dyad
Definition
Exchance of info between two people
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Environment
Definition
Psychological or Physical surrounds in which communication occurs
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Feedback
Definition
The response to a message that the receiver sends to the source
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Human communication
Definition
The study of how humans communicate
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Intentional Communication
Definition
Is communication that is intentionally sent
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IntrApersonal Commmunication
Definition
Is understanding communication within one self
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Mass Communication
Definition
Is communication to the masses, such as radio
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Message
Definition
The stimulus that is produced by the source
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Process
Definition
Series of actions that has no beginning or ending and is always changing
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Receiver
Definition
The person who analyzes and interpets the message
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Small group communication
Definition
An exchange of info between a small group of people who share a common purpose
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Source
Definition
The creator of a message
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Unintentional Communication
Definition
Communication that is sent, without the sender intended for it to happen.
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Culture
Definition
Learned behaviors that are communicated from one generation to another to promote social or individual survival
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Ethnocentric
Definition
A persons pride in their background that makes them feel better than others
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Gender
Definition
Masculin or feminine behaviors that are learned socially
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Interpretation
Definition
How one based on previous knowledge and experience percieves something
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perception
Definition
Taking into account all surrouding variables, the end conclusion we form on a situation
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Self-Concept
Definition
The mental image or perception one has about themselves
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Self-Esteem
Definition
a confidence or satisfaction in one self
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self-fulfilling prophecy
Definition
a false definition of the situation evoking a new behaviour which makes the original false conception come 'true'.
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Stereotype
Definition
Based on past experience, clumping a group of individuals together into the same description.
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What is the heart of all communication?
Definition
Perception
Term
Identify/explain things that would help you to improve your perception
Definition
Be an active perceiver, realize each persons understanding and frame of refrence is different, distuinquish facts from infrences
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Is self-concept a process?
Definition
Yes because it is always changing depending on the sitatuion and feedback from others and ourselves.
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4 Types of communication
Definition
Interpersonal- Sharing with someone
Intrapersonal - Within ourselves
Public - Speaking to a group that is listening
Mass - Talking to large groups, Radio
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Communication is Ireversable
Definition
Once its said, you cant take it back.
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Communication is both
Definition
Intentional and Unintentional
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External communication
Definition
Is any communication that takes place outside of the recievers body, such as a slamming door or an explosion.
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Internal Communication
Definition
Is anything that takes place within ones mind
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Meaning are in the words we use
Definition
Telling your girlfriend her butt looks big in jeans. Its not the words, its how others percieve those words
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