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Culture
Set of values, beliefs, customs, rules handed down through generations.
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Channel
Method used to deliver message from encoder.
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Downward Communication
comm. that flows from superiors to subordinates
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Paraphrase
Listen to another and restate the message in own words.
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Pseudo
one who fakes or pretends to listen.
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Dyadic
comm. that takes place with just two people
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Feedback
recognize response of a receiver to a senders message.
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External Noise
Listening challenges that are external- in the environment.
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Internal Noise
Listening barrier within the person the hinders decoding a message.
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Decoder
One who attaches meaning to words, symbols, behavior.
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Co-Culture
A group that has a clear identity with the encompassing group.
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Upward Comm.
Comm. that flows from subordinates to superiors.
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Plagiarism
using words or ideas from another author without citing the source.
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Pragmatic
One who takes a practical approach to problems.
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Ambiguous
Comm. that delivers a cloudy or unclear message.
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Transactional
Exchange of active comm. simultaneously
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Ethics
An individual system of moral principles
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Interpersonal
Creating and sharing info between two or more people
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Ethocentric
Persons pride in own heritage leading to "better than others" attitude
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Intrapersonal
Process of understanding info within ones self
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Stereotype
Categorize people, events, objects without regards to others.
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Encoder
One who creates a message and choose channel to deliver message.
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Chronemics
Nonverbal term for time messaging or structure of time
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Assign, Attend, Respond, Remember
Four stages
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Proxemics
Nonverbal term for space around you.
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Jargon
Specific terminology used within a particular group or business.
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Nonverbal
Comm. involving messages expressed other than linguistically.
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Haptics
Nonverbal term for touch (shake hands, embrace)
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Slang
Unimportant terminology that quickly goes out of fashion
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Artifacts
Man-made objects stressing or distinguishing character.
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Kinesics
Nonverbal study of body movement, facial, appearance.
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Silence
Power message used to comm. feelings/prevents verbal.
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Groupthink
Condition of group unwilling to examine ideas to maintain harmony
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Brainstorm
Approach to idea that encourages free thinking/ minimizes conformity
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Transition
Statement between two parts to understand relations of parts and thesis
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Reflective Thinking Method
John Deweys problem solving method
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Thesis
A single sentence that summarizes the central idea of a presentation
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Norms
Informal unspoken rules about what behavior is appropriate.
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Group
Collection of people who are not experts but interact to reach a goal.
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Specific Goal
Concrete statement of what speakers what audience to remember
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Team
Collection of competent experts collaborate, support, to reach a common goal.
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Connotation
Subjective meaning of a word because of associates it evokes
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Consensus
Decision making method when whole group supports the decision.
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General Goal
Broad purpose of a speech
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Denotation
Standard dictionary definition of a word
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Persuasion
Speech that changes an attitude, action, belief or behavior.
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Fallacy
An argument that sounds logical but is flawed by errors of reasoning.
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Disfluencies
Vocal disruptions or filler words that distract in a formal speech
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Credibility
Persuasive force that comes form audience belief in speaker.
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Manuscript
Lose your audience because you are reading everything from the page.
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Memorize
recite word for word
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Extemperanious
Planned, researched, rehearsed
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