SPCM 200 Final Exam Study Guide - Spring 2025 UPDATED ACTUAL and Correct Answers

SPCM 200 Final Exam Study Guide - Spring 2025 UPDATED
ACTUAL and Correct Answers
Question: Communication
Answer:
exchange of symbols between people in an effort to understand or influence each other's
perception of the world

Question: Standard Model of Communication
Answer:
holistic attempt to account for the major attributes that are
at work in most communication interactions

Question: Sender
Answer:
person or institution that initiates a communication interaction

Question: Message
Answer:
form of symbolic representation (a statement, question, exclamation, etc.) that contains information
or an inquiry from the sender to another party

Question: Channels
Answer:
diverse forms and media in which messages travel

Question: Receiver
Answer:
person, persons, or institution for which the sender prepares a message and from whom the sender
expects a response

Question: Encoding
Answer:
work that a sender does to a message to put it into a format appropriate for communication in a
particular situation

Question: Decoding
Answer:

,work done on the other end of the communicative interaction- work the receiver or receivers do to
translate the speaker's encoding into a format they can interpret and understand

Question: Feedback
Answer:
verbal and non-verbal signals a receiver provides a sender in the course of communicating

Question: Noise
Answer:
anything that interferes with the successful transmission of a message

Question: Intrapersonal
Answer:
communication that takes place within a person's own mind, primarily through thinking
and internal dialogue

Question: Interpersonal
Answer:
communication that takes place between two to three people and typically concerns the
creation, maintenance, or disillusionment of personal relationships

Question: Group communication
Answer:
communication that takes place among a small group of people - particularly
teams - and is often focused on the completion of a task

Question: Organizational communication
Answer:
communication that takes place within and between large institutions and their members

Question: Mass communication
Answer:
communication that takes place through media of many kinds, including
television, film and social or print media, and is transmitted to large audiences

Question: Public communication
Answer:

,communication that takes place between a speaker and an audience with the
aim of engaging that audience on a topic of shared concern about the public interest

Question: Minor Goals
Answer:
small, targeted tasks that the speaker hopes to achieve over the course of a speech in order
to improve its effectiveness

Question: Primary Goals
Answer:
the single, focused overarching achievement the speaker hopes to attain with her audience
by the end of the speech in order to be successful

Question: Persuade
Answer:
to encourage the audience to think about an issue or see the world in a way advocated by the
speaker

Question: To learn
Answer:
important information about a new topic

Question: To consider
Answer:
perspective other than their own

Question: To adopt a solution
Answer:
to public problem advocated for by the speakers

Question: To value
Answer:
the life and experiences of another person

Question: Thesis Statement
Answer:
a single, declarative sentence in which the speaker makes the central overarching
argument of their entire speech.

, Question: Free expression
Answer:
Exercise of the human right to share ideas and opinions with other without interference
from governments or other forms of authority.

Question: Free speech exceptions
Answer:
circumstances in which the U.S. does not protect the right to free expression.

Question: Incitement
Answer:
speech that advocates the use of force in a lawless and immediate way.

Question: Defamation
Answer:
a knowingly false statement made in public that harms the reputation of another person or
entity.

Question: Slander
Answer:
defamation that occurs in speech.

Question: Libel
Answer:
defamation that occurs in print or visual media.

Question: Hate speech
Answer:
speech that offends, threatens, or insults groups, based on race, color, religion, national
origin, sexual orientation, disability, or other traits.

Question: Protected speech
Answer:
Hate speech is protected as a form of free expression under current constitutional
interpretations, unless it leads to incitement.

Question: Principle matters
Answer: