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Communication Theory Questions And Answers Latest Update
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- Communication Theory
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- University Of Southern California
Communication Theory Questions And Answers Latest Update
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Communication Theory QuestionsAnd Answers Latest Update
Theories are hunches ANS✔✔ a set of systematic, informed hunches about
the way things work
Systematic ANS✔✔ multiple ideas, specifies the relationship among them
Purpose of theory ANS✔✔ 1. Organize experience
2. Extend knowledge
3. Anticipate events
4. Stimulate
Theory metaphors ANS✔✔ net, map, lens
Theory as a "net" ANS✔✔ capture the phenomenon and understand, group
and organize, theories intertwine to understand, more theories - the better we
capture the ideas in the net
Theory as a "lens" ANS✔✔ Focus our perceptions on the world, focus on one
thing
Theory as a "map" ANS✔✔ Different theories - different areas of study, helps
us understand how things are related and how to get a goal
,Communication ANS✔✔ the relational process of creating and interpreting
messages that elicit a response
Five features of communication ANS✔✔ 1. Messages
2. Creation of messages
3. Interpretation of messages
4. A relational process
5. Messages that elicit a response
Messages ANS✔✔ talking and listening, writing and reading, performing
and witnessing
Text ANS✔✔ a record of a message that can be analyzed by others; for
example, a book, film, photograph, or any transcript or recording of a speech or
broadcast
Creation of messages ANS✔✔ the content and form of a text are usually
constructed, invented, planned, crafted, constituted, selected, or adopted by the
communicator
Interpretation of messages ANS✔✔ the meaning that a message holds for
both creators and receivers doesn't reside in the words that are spoken, written
or acted out; words don't mean things, people mean things
A relational process ANS✔✔ communication is always in flux, never
completely the same, and can only be described with reference to what went
, before and what is yet to come; communication takes place between two or
more people
Messages that elicit a response ANS✔✔ if the message fails to stimulate any
cognitive, emotional, or behavioral reaction, it seems pointless to refer to it as
communication
Behavioral scientist ANS✔✔ a scholar who applies the scientific method to
describe, predict, and explain recurring forms of human behavior
Rhetorician ANS✔✔ a scholar who studies the ways in which symbolic
forms can be used to identify with people, or to persuade them toward a certain
point of view
Objective approach ANS✔✔ the assumption that truth is singular and is
accessible through unbiased sensory observation; committed to uncovering
cause-and-effect relationships
Glen Sparks ANS✔✔ Objective approach
source credibility ANS✔✔ perceived competence and trustworthiness of a
speaker or writer that affects how the message is received
Identification ANS✔✔ a perceived role relationship that affects self-image
and attitudes; based on attractiveness of the role model and sustained if the
relationship remains salient
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