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task function (GDM) - correct answer people in your group keeping you on track. willing to sacrifice the relationship to successfully accomplish the task. relationship function (GDM) - correct answer more oriented in terms of keeping harmony in the group. The four functions of effective group decision-making - correct answer Analysis of problem Goal setting Identification of alternatives (routes of success) Evolution of the positives and negatives --Eventually lead to a wise de...

What is the "agenda-setting hypothesis"? - correct answer When the mass media has the ability to transfer the salience of issues on their news agenda to the public agenda Be familiar with the communitarian ethics of Cliff Christian - correct answer he likes free speech but not the whole first amendment, he believes in communitarian ethics which means its one's moral responsibility to promote community, mutuality, and persons-in-relation who live simultaneously for others and for themselve...

• What is it specifically that the theory of media cultivation is focused on predicting and explaining? - correct answer o Attitudes, beliefs and cognitions • What communication MEDIUM is the theory of media cultivation primarily focused on? - correct answer o Television Three major parts of media cultivation theory (3 prongs): institutional process analysis - correct answer behind the scenes of media organizations is an effort to understand what policies or practices might be th...

What communication MEDIUM is the theory of media cultivation primarily focused on? - correct answer Television Be able to identify and distinguish the THREE major parts of media cultivation theory - correct answer 1) Institutional process analysis 2) Message system analysis 3)Cultivation analysis What research method(s) are typically employed by media cultivation researchers and which method is avoided? Why? - correct answer Uses: cultivation analyses Avoids: Doesn't use experimen...

What are narratives according to Walter Fisher? How does Griffin extend it? - correct answer Fisher: Narratives are symbolic actions, words or deeds, that have meaning for those who live/create/interpret them. Griffin: Narration is communication rooted in time and space, also refers to nonverbal bid for a person to believe/act in a certain way What does Fisher mean when he describes Narrative theory as a paradigm shift? - correct answer A shift from scientific/logical communication to ...

The accepted wisdom of the field about the two functions communication needs to address in any group (also extended by Prof. Sparks in lecture to interpersonal communication) (see intro section to Group Communication) - correct answer task & relationship The four functions of effective group decision-making - correct answer 1. Analysis the problem 2. Goal Setting 3. Identification of alternatives 4. Evaluation of characteristic How Em Griffin illustrated the functional perspective on...

What is it specifically that the theory of media cultivation is focused on predicting and explaining? - correct answer Impact of media messages on behavior What communication MEDIUM is the theory of media cultivation primarily focused on? - correct answer 2 Be able to identify and distinguish the THREE major parts of media cultivation theory - correct answer 3 PRONGS 1) Institutional process analysis-behind the scenes of media organizations in an effort to understand what policies o...

Describe the overall anatomy of the respiratory, from the nose to the alveoli - correct answer Nose Pharynx Larynx Trachea Bronchi Bronchioles Alveolar Ducts Alveoli Describe the cells that line various parts of the respiratory system, from the nose to the alveoli - correct answer Nose: lined with mucous membrane, remainder of the mucous membrane is lined with pseudostratified ciliated columnar epithelium containing goblet cells Pharynx: Oropharynx and laryngopharynx lined with...

high H+ - correct answer What stimulates the central chemoreceptors simple squamous - correct answer In the alveoli the epithelium is __________________, relaxes, decreases - correct answer When the diaphragm _________________, air leaves the lungs and the volume of the thorax ___________________. pulmonary surfactant, lower - correct answer The most important component of alveolar fluid is a substance called _______________. Its function is to __________ surface tension. car...

Define ventilation. - correct answer Air exchange between atmosphere and alveoli Define phonation. - correct answer Vibration of true vocal cords Define pitch and explain how a high pitch can be produced. - correct answer Rate of vibration- high: shorter, thinner, tighter cords Define volume as it applies to the respiratory system. - correct answer Loudness - force of air flow; causes greater vocal cord displacement Define resonance. What is the function of resonance? - corr...