COM 200 UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers
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COM 200 UPDATED ACTUAL Questions
and CORRECT Answers
Julia Wood - CORRECT ANSWER- communication is a systemic process in which
individuals interact with and through symbols to create and interpret meanings.
Balchtin - CORRECT ANSWER- Already Spokens- everything that has been said before
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COM 200 UPDATED ACTUAL Questions
and CORRECT Answers
Julia Wood - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔communication is a systemic process in which
individuals interact with and through symbols to create and interpret meanings.
Balchtin - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Already Spokens- everything that has been said before
Features of theories - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔- maps of realities, lenses
-can have several theories of same phenomenon
-need to be tested and retested
-usually associated with particular academics
-truth seeking and strategic
-may be objective or interpretive
-answer the question why
-research methods can be quantitative, qualitiative or both
Objective Theories - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔-scientific
-quantitative methodologies
-truth is singular
-cause and effect
-deterministic(behavior that happens is influenced by things out of control)
-generalizibility
-predictability and control
-methodologies designed to be value free (axiology)
Interpretive Theories - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔-rhetorical or humanistic
-concerned with meaning
-assume imposibility of separating knower from known
-voluntaristic (behavior is often the product of conscious choice)
,-reification- we make real what we think is real
-relies on social constructionism (all of our social reality is created through communicative
interactionism and language)
-value-laden
-emancipation (flipping social hierarchy)
-making sense of unique events
-qualitiative methodologies
-guides for interpretation of communication behavior
-focus on epistemology (nature of knowledge)
7 Traditions in the field of communication theory - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Socio-
Psychological, Cybernetic, Rhetorical, Semiotic, Socio-Cultural, Critical, and
Phenomenological
Robert Craig - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔1991, "Communication as a Field"; before that, it
wasn't thought of as a field. All communication theories are relevant to practical life world.
Broke down into seven traditions
Carl Hovland and Yale Team - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Socio Psychological Tradition
-scientific perspective
-source and content of persuasive messages
-source credibility rests on expertness and character
-Sleeper Effect: impact of credibility doesn't last
Wiener - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Cybernetic Tradition
-field of Artificial intelligence
-introduced concept of feedback
-Claude Shannon established the idea of communication as information processing
-goal= maximize line capacity with minimum distortion
-reduce uncertainty through redundancy
-tricolon- thinking in three's
,Rhetorical Tradition - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔-speech distinguishes humans
-confidence in efficacy of public address
-setting: one speaker addressing large audience with intention to persuade
-power and beauty of language moves people emotionally, stirs them to action
-male province
Richards, Ogden, Saussure - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Semiotic Tradition
-study of signs
-signs signify by indication, representation, or by arbitrary convention (symbol)
-words are symbols (arbitrary)
-words to not have precise meaning
-meaning resides in people
-a symbol is indirectly related to its referent
-3 areas- semantics, syntactics, and pramatics
Socio - Cultural Tradition - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔- communication produces and
reproduces culture
-Sapir Whorf Hypothesis- structure of language shapes what people think and do
-language is a neutral conduit
-through language, reality is produced, maintained, repaired, and transformed
-symbolic interactionism, social constructionism, social linguistics, and ethnography
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔structure of language shapes what
people think and do
words we use for ourselves shapes what we think and do
Critical Tradition - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔-focus on history as the unjust distribution of
power and suffering
-control of language perpetuates power imbalances
-mass media can dull sensitivity to repression
-reliance on scientific method and empiricism blunts critical thinking
, phenomenological tradition - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔-intentional analysis of everyday
life from the standpoint of person who is living it
-emphasizes people's perceptions and interpretations of their own subjective experience
-Deetz 3 Basic principles
-interpretation emerges from a hermeneutic circle (our interpretation is dynamic; constantly
going back and forth between interpretation and ascribing meaning)
-three schools of thought- classical, phenomenology of perception, and hermeneutic
phenomenology
Deetz 3 Basic Principles - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔(phenomenological tradition)
1. knowledge is a conscious process
2. how we relate to a thing determines its meaning for that person
3. language is a vehicle for meaning
George Herbert Mead and Herbert Blumer - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Symbolic
Interactionism
Blumer - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔coined term symbolic interactionism
Symbolic Interactionism - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔- we create symbolic worlds through
language and our interactions with others
-three core principles
1. meaning
2. language
3. thought
meaning (SI) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔construction of social reality
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