Exam 3: Understanding Your Audience

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Describe a nonjudgmental communicator.

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Nonjudgmentalism involves willingness to examine diverse ideas and viewpoints.A nonjudgmental communicator is open-minded,and able to accept ideas that may be strongly opposed to his or her own beliefs and values.

In communication,what is the significance of the Iceberg model?

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When you see an iceberg on the ocean,the great majority of its size and depth lie below your level of awareness.When you write a document or give a presentation,each person in your reading or listening audience is like the tip of an iceberg.You may perceive people of different ages,races,ethnicities,and genders,but those are only surface characteristics.At first glance you may think you know your audience,but if you dig a little deeper you will learn more about them and become a better speaker.

Once you have solved a puzzle,the next time you see the same puzzle,it is almost impossible to NOT see the solution.This,according to the text is a result of:

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Fairness involves _____ for the audience and individual members.

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Unlike beliefs,our values may be based on empirical research or rational thinking.

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_____ are ideas based on our previous experiences and convictions.

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The attributes that cause people to perceive things differently are known as ???_____.

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Your _____ is your central identity and set of beliefs about who you are and what you are capable of accomplishing.

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We "understand" before we experience.

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How do demographic traits apply to communication?

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Our perceptual set helps to form our mental expectations of what is happening,and what will happen.

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What should you do to fully share and understand the meaning?

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After selection and organization,_____ is the third step in the perception process.

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_____ is both information we choose to pay attention to and information that we choose to ignore,or that is unavailable to us.

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Public communication starts with interpersonal communication.

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One of the Gestalt principles,_____,refers to the perceptual organization of information based on the physical relationship of space to objects.

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Our attitudes,beliefs,and values about the world constitute our perceptual _____.

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Self-image also includes your knowledge,experience,interests,and relationships.

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What constitutes honesty in communication?

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_____ are core concepts and ideas of what we consider good or bad,right or wrong,or what is worth sacrifice.

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