UCONN COMM 1000 EXAM 1
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100%
VERIFIED
Why study Comm? - ANSWER-Keeps us alive, impacts everything, it is a skill,
employers value it
What is Human Communication - ANSWER--the process of managing messages for
the purpose of creating shared meaning.
-a transaction between at least 2 people
-simultaneously sending and receiving messages
Factors that influence communication - ANSWER-Listening, time, feedback
Intrapersonal comm - ANSWER-within one person
interpersonal - ANSWER-with one another
interviewing - ANSWER-focused on question-answer pattern
small group - ANSWER-3 or more members influencing one another
public comm - ANSWER-talking to a lot of people
organization comm - ANSWER-between people of certain culture
Elements of effective comm - ANSWER-understanding, pleasure, attitude influence,
improved relationships, action
Humanistic approaches - ANSWER-rhetoric, interpretivists, critical scholars
Rhetoric - ANSWER-basis for public speaking
interpretivists - ANSWER-make sense of the world based on events
Critical scientific approaches - ANSWER-Qualitative, quantitative
Qualitative - ANSWER-rigorous observational rules , work in the field
Quantitative - ANSWER-seeks to uncover patterns in comm behavior via numbers,
in the field or lab
The scientific method - ANSWER-ask questions or state problem
formulate hypothesis or research question
think through, refine hypothesis
, Perception - ANSWER-interpreting the sensory experience of the world
Process of Perception - ANSWER-1. select
2.organize
3.interpret
Perceptual filters - ANSWER-Physical/physiological limits (glasses)
Pyschological sets - ANSWER-expectations that shape experiences (gender, age)
Attribution - ANSWER-the process of assigning meaning to others' behavior
Dispositional other - ANSWER-Overuse of personality reasons (dispositions) with
others
"joe failed the exam because he was lazy"
Self-serving bias - ANSWER-Overuse of situational attributions with self
"I failed the exam because the exam was ridiculous and unfair
Impressions of self - ANSWER-self concept
-(looking-glass)
-self expansion model
-social comparison
self-esteem
-feedback
selffulfilling prophecy
-can or can not do something
Impressions of Others - ANSWER-First impressions
-primary effect
Physical attractiveness
expressiveness
charisma
Bodily Adaptations - ANSWER-includes fight or flight responses & need for food and
water and oxygen
external expression - ANSWER-useful for social coordination, sexual reproduction,
dominance and submission
referent - ANSWER-the thing that the word stands for
Denotive meaning - ANSWER-dictionary definition of the word
connotative meaning - ANSWER-individuals interpretation of a word
private & shared meaning - ANSWER-Inside joke
Sapir-Whord hypothesis - ANSWER-language shapes how we see the world
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100%
VERIFIED
Why study Comm? - ANSWER-Keeps us alive, impacts everything, it is a skill,
employers value it
What is Human Communication - ANSWER--the process of managing messages for
the purpose of creating shared meaning.
-a transaction between at least 2 people
-simultaneously sending and receiving messages
Factors that influence communication - ANSWER-Listening, time, feedback
Intrapersonal comm - ANSWER-within one person
interpersonal - ANSWER-with one another
interviewing - ANSWER-focused on question-answer pattern
small group - ANSWER-3 or more members influencing one another
public comm - ANSWER-talking to a lot of people
organization comm - ANSWER-between people of certain culture
Elements of effective comm - ANSWER-understanding, pleasure, attitude influence,
improved relationships, action
Humanistic approaches - ANSWER-rhetoric, interpretivists, critical scholars
Rhetoric - ANSWER-basis for public speaking
interpretivists - ANSWER-make sense of the world based on events
Critical scientific approaches - ANSWER-Qualitative, quantitative
Qualitative - ANSWER-rigorous observational rules , work in the field
Quantitative - ANSWER-seeks to uncover patterns in comm behavior via numbers,
in the field or lab
The scientific method - ANSWER-ask questions or state problem
formulate hypothesis or research question
think through, refine hypothesis
, Perception - ANSWER-interpreting the sensory experience of the world
Process of Perception - ANSWER-1. select
2.organize
3.interpret
Perceptual filters - ANSWER-Physical/physiological limits (glasses)
Pyschological sets - ANSWER-expectations that shape experiences (gender, age)
Attribution - ANSWER-the process of assigning meaning to others' behavior
Dispositional other - ANSWER-Overuse of personality reasons (dispositions) with
others
"joe failed the exam because he was lazy"
Self-serving bias - ANSWER-Overuse of situational attributions with self
"I failed the exam because the exam was ridiculous and unfair
Impressions of self - ANSWER-self concept
-(looking-glass)
-self expansion model
-social comparison
self-esteem
-feedback
selffulfilling prophecy
-can or can not do something
Impressions of Others - ANSWER-First impressions
-primary effect
Physical attractiveness
expressiveness
charisma
Bodily Adaptations - ANSWER-includes fight or flight responses & need for food and
water and oxygen
external expression - ANSWER-useful for social coordination, sexual reproduction,
dominance and submission
referent - ANSWER-the thing that the word stands for
Denotive meaning - ANSWER-dictionary definition of the word
connotative meaning - ANSWER-individuals interpretation of a word
private & shared meaning - ANSWER-Inside joke
Sapir-Whord hypothesis - ANSWER-language shapes how we see the world
