Exam 1: The Communication Process: Perception, Meaning, and Identity

You and a friend pass in the hall and you offer up a hearty "What's up?" Certainly you wanted to acknowledge your friend, but you were also exercising communication's power to ___________.

We use communication to meet many goals other than developing and maintaining our sense of self. We also communicate to _________; that is, we are always exploring new people, places, and things and communication is our primary tool of discovery.

Culture is the world made meaningful. It is socially __________ through communication.

Essential to the idea of the transactional view of communication is that ___________.

The quote, "I am not what I think I am and I am not what you think I am; I am what I think that you think I am," suggests how complex and complicated communication can be. It tells us that in what appears to be a routine conversation, there are not simply two people communicating; there are actually six "selves" involved. What are those six selves and how do they interact to allow both parties to make meaning? Use an example of an encounter from your own experience do demonstrate the presence and operation of the six selves.

We use communication to meet many goals other than developing and maintaining our sense of self. We also communicate to _________; that is, communication binds and defines the ties we have with friends, family, and important others.

We use communication to meet many goals other than developing and maintaining our sense of self. We also communicate to _________; that is, we are always persuading.

In describing the operation of symbolic interaction, Mead argued that there are two important "others" to whom we look to better understand ourselves. Influential people in the different situations in which we find ourselves are our _________.

You spill a soda on your copy of the campus newspaper, and as you try to read page 2 the images and words from page one bleed through, making it impossible to read anything at all. This is an example of _________ noise.

In the triangle of meaning, the element that stands in for the _______ is the sign or symbol.

Perception requires all the following processes: organization, interpretation, and ___________.

Because we're incapable of processing the enormous tide of sensory stimuli that washes over us at all times, perception of the world around us requires ___________.

The type of model described in #8 can be described as ________ model of communication because it views the success of the communication effort as primarily within the sender's control.

Your new classmate is a tall blonde student. You soon learn from her that her GPA is a 3.8 and you discover you're surprised that she's that smart. You have engaged in ___________.

There is nothing inherently meaning "stop" in a piece of hexagonal red sheet metal, just as English speakers may have decided d-o-g signifies a canine, but Spanish speakers prefer p-e-r-r-o. These facts demonstrate that the meanings we assign to signs and symbols are __________.

The order of a basic linear process of communication follows the pattern ______.

The researchers who demonstrated that we cannot not communicate are collectively known as the ___________.

Your doctor is talking to you about adopting a healthier diet, but you are so tired from studying the night before that you simply cannot focus on what she's saying. This is an example of __________ noise.

_________ are specific sets of expectations we use to make sense of specific social situations in which we may find ourselves.

Who are symbolic interaction's two important "others" and how do they help us better understand ourselves in the different situations we find ourselves in?