Com100 Midterm Review

Reviewing Com100 terms from chapters 1-7.

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Transactional process in which people generate meaning through the exchange of verbal and nonverbal messages in specific contexts, influenced by individual and societal forces and embedded in culture
Human Communication
7 Basic Components of Communication
Message Creation, Meaning Creation,Setting, Participants,Channels,Noise,Feedback
Taking ideas and turning them into messages
Encoding
Receiving a message and interpreting its meaning
Decoding
The process of selection, organization, and interpretation of the information you collect through your senses.
Perception
Most typical representation of concept.
Prototype
After you perceive and organize sensory information, you assign meaning to it.
Interpretation
A structure that shapes how people interpret their perceptions
Frames
Who a person is, composed of individual and social categories a person identifies with, as well as the categories that others identify with that person
Identity
believe what we tell ourselves to believe
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
the understanding of one’s unique characteristics as well as the similarities to, and differences from others
Self- Concept
the specific identities an individual holds in a society
Social Identity
occurs when people experience adverse or negative feelings toward a group as a whole or toward an individual because she or he belongs to a group
Prejudice
generally refers to the written or oral words we exchange and those words we usually are referred to as language
Verbal Communication
Languages 7 Basic Functions
Instrumental,Regulatory, Informative, Heuristic,Interactional,Personal,Imaginative