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Communication Competence, Ethical Decision Framework, Social Science,
Interpretive, Critical Approaches, Self-Concept, Self-Esteem, Self-Respect,
Reflected Appraisals, Looking Glass Self, Role Complexity, Primary & Secondary
Identity, Gender, Racial, National, Ethnic, Sexual, Age Identity, Perception,
Cognitive Representation, Categorization, Schemas, Prototypes, Scripts, Frames,
Stereotyping, Attribution Theory, Communication Ethics, Symbols in Messages,
Enacting Identities, AIDA, Persuasive & Routine Messages, BEBAC, Direct &
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Why do we study communication?
Learn more about ourselves
Essential to relationships
Helps us achieve goals
Critical thinking
requires that one become a critic of one's own thoughts and behavior
involves reflection and weighing evidence, is a key to successful communication
, What are messages?
are the building blocks of communication, and the process of taking ideas and converting them
into messages is called encoding.
What are shared messages?
the mutual understanding of a message between speaker and audience
What is the difference between content level and relational level meaning?
What words and body language mean
Can you name/define/explain the seven components of the communication process?
1. Setting (location, day/time, proximity)
2. Participants (#)
3. Message creation: encoding & decoding
4. Meaning creation: filtered through content & relationship
5. Channel: how we send messages, appropriateness
6. Noise: what stops us from communicating
7. Feedback (laughter, silence, etc.)
What are the differences in three communication models from the slides?