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