Comm Midterm

These are flashcards I'm going to use to study b4 my comm. exam. Hopefully I get an A.

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Internal or subjective behavior that occurs as responses within a person to words or other standardized signs and signals is a form of:
Meaning
Physical events, like verbal sounds, visible nonverbal signals or both
Information
People share a rule as to how they are expected to understand it
Convention
If the meaning in a message is different, the communication process has suffered some kind of:
Distortion, the result has limited accuracy
Communication as a linear process
1. Decide message 2. Encode message 3. Transmit message 4. Perceive the information as a message 5. Decode and interpret the
Any word, number, gesture, object, or other cue, verbal or nonverbal that has associated with it in our language a conventional meaning
Symbol
Words, events, lightning, snarling dog at intruder
Signs
Subjective responses that individuals in a given language community learn to make, either to things experienced in reality or symbol
Meaning
Standardized dictionary meaning
Denotative
Personal meanings that an individual uniquely associates with a word because of experience
Connotative
Imprinted records of experience registered in the brain's nerve cells
Traces
A pattern or configuration of traces of symbols, images, experiences and their meanings that have been organized and recorded in a persons memory
Schema
Taking the other role of the other
Role-taking
Encoding is..
Automated behavior. We can formulate a message, engage in role taking, revise what we want to say in an instant.
Patterned physical events
Information