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

When communicating we use schema to ______________.

George Herbert Mead laid out his theory of symbolic interaction in a book entitled Mind, Self, and Society. Explain what he meant by mind, self, and society and how they interact to help us know who we are and make our way in the world.

Although communication can be____________ (describing or conveying some objective fact or information), it is almost always_______ (someone's version of the facts or information).

You are watching the news and the anchor is discussing the main occurrences of the day. This is an example of what kind of communication?

_______ models of communication suggest that messages travel in a more or less straight line from a source, through a medium, to a receiver.

What are social cues and how do they allow for people to shift frames in an interaction?

A stop sign is a stop sign-rather than a stop symbol-because it is a more-or-less ________ substitution for something else, in this case, an official order to stop your car.

Mead explained how people learn about themselves and the world around them through interaction with others using a _________metaphor. That is one context in which we come to value ourselves to the extent that our role is respected by others.

In describing the operation of symbolic interaction, Mead argued that there are two important "others" to whom we look to better understand ourselves. Our sense of how others see us is our ___________.

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 that in any conversation there are actually 6 selves present: You, the Other, what You think of the Other, What the Other thinks of You, What You think the Other thinks of You, and ________.

When asked an uncomfortable question by an acquaintance at an office party, most people's reaction will result in a(n) _______________.

How did the Palo Alto Group challenge the source-dominated view of communication? Explain how their perspective moved our understanding of communication toward the idea that communication is a transaction.

You think you're the funniest person you know, yet no one ever gets your jokes. You eventually realize that you are not that funny. This is symbolic interaction's _______ in operation.

You're walking down the street in your state's capital city. You hear people with accents that seem quite at home there, but you also hear folks talking with a decidedly different accent. You instantly know they're visitors to your state. This is an example of culture's power to _______.

How can cultures both liberate and limit? Give examples of both functions.

The perspective on communication which sees communication as creating something that did not exist before is the ________ view of communication.

Communication is about mutual meaning making. It is also transactional and ___________.

In 1923, linguist C.K. Ogden and literary critic I.A. Richards offered their "Triangle of Meaning" as a way to understand the operation of signs and symbols. List and describe the elements of the triangle, explain how they interact to make meaning, and offer your own example.

In symbolic interaction, ___________ are any objects to which we can refer to make meaning.

Because people's culture offers them a wealth of information in all their interactions, making communication easier and more effective and efficient. As such, it ______ people to make meaning more deeply, more quickly, more mutually.