COM 105 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What is the official COM 105 definition of communication? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅"Managing mutual
responding"
How was that definition derived? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅From the working definition of
communication: the process by which parties manage, control and conduct responding to one another
Content results and relationship results - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Content results: completion of the
process of constructing meaning, "getting your idea across" ... enabling others to know/understand
what you want them to know/understand
Relationship results: human connection communicators construct w/ one another as they manage
mutual responding w/ one another.
That connection = a relationship.
Often overlooked or ignored, yet occurs WHENEVER a communicator attempts to construct content
results.
Cannot communicate without these two results
What does phronimos [pronounced FRO-KNEE-MOHS] mean? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Takes
appropriate action, effectively balancing good & expedient
What does tikkun olam [pronounced tee-KOON oh-LAHM] mean; and what does it have to do with the
study of communication? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Contributing to the repair of the world
The name of the discipline you are majoring in, and the name of the UNCW
department that sponsors courses in that discipline - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Communication Studies
"Department of Communication Studies"
, What does "V.U.C.A." mean? How does V.U.C.A." tie into, or connect with, the study of communication?
- CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Volatile
Uncertain
Complex
Ambiguous
This course teaches you how to thrive in a world that is VUCA
Volatility - vision
Uncertainty - understanding
Complexity - clarity
Ambiguous - agile
What are STRENGTHS and DELTAS, and how are those concepts used in the task of giving feedback? -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Strengths & deltas: Observable, measurable, actionable feedback
Strengths: encouraging & complementing good behavior
Deltas: constructive criticism
What are COMMUNICATION PRACTICES? What does it mean to PERFORM COMMUNICATION
PRACTICES; and to CONSTRUCT or ACCOMPLISH results by performing them? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Communication practices: the act of managing mutual responding
Perform communication practices: 2 people actively managing mutual responding; performing
communication practices in articulate encounters; in order to accomplish & construct results
Construct or accomplish results: getting content or relationship results
Wallace's habits of ethical communication - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1. Habit of Search: You know what
you're talking about before you talk (research)
What is the official COM 105 definition of communication? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅"Managing mutual
responding"
How was that definition derived? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅From the working definition of
communication: the process by which parties manage, control and conduct responding to one another
Content results and relationship results - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Content results: completion of the
process of constructing meaning, "getting your idea across" ... enabling others to know/understand
what you want them to know/understand
Relationship results: human connection communicators construct w/ one another as they manage
mutual responding w/ one another.
That connection = a relationship.
Often overlooked or ignored, yet occurs WHENEVER a communicator attempts to construct content
results.
Cannot communicate without these two results
What does phronimos [pronounced FRO-KNEE-MOHS] mean? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Takes
appropriate action, effectively balancing good & expedient
What does tikkun olam [pronounced tee-KOON oh-LAHM] mean; and what does it have to do with the
study of communication? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Contributing to the repair of the world
The name of the discipline you are majoring in, and the name of the UNCW
department that sponsors courses in that discipline - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Communication Studies
"Department of Communication Studies"
, What does "V.U.C.A." mean? How does V.U.C.A." tie into, or connect with, the study of communication?
- CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Volatile
Uncertain
Complex
Ambiguous
This course teaches you how to thrive in a world that is VUCA
Volatility - vision
Uncertainty - understanding
Complexity - clarity
Ambiguous - agile
What are STRENGTHS and DELTAS, and how are those concepts used in the task of giving feedback? -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Strengths & deltas: Observable, measurable, actionable feedback
Strengths: encouraging & complementing good behavior
Deltas: constructive criticism
What are COMMUNICATION PRACTICES? What does it mean to PERFORM COMMUNICATION
PRACTICES; and to CONSTRUCT or ACCOMPLISH results by performing them? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Communication practices: the act of managing mutual responding
Perform communication practices: 2 people actively managing mutual responding; performing
communication practices in articulate encounters; in order to accomplish & construct results
Construct or accomplish results: getting content or relationship results
Wallace's habits of ethical communication - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1. Habit of Search: You know what
you're talking about before you talk (research)
