CMS 11

A response of a receiver to a sender's message

Individuals filled of experince that colors the way they see things

External (outside), Physiological (body), and Psychological (brain) distractions that interfere with transmission and reception of a message

The medium through which a message passes from a sender to a receiver

The quantity of non-verbal cues that accompany spoken messages

Dyad process in which communicators create meaning together through interactions

What you say

How you say it

Communication between two people

Some communication is more meaningful with others (ex. uniqueness, irreplaceable, interdependence, disclosure)

Number of participants

communication tha occurs via computerized communication (ex. email, IM)

• The ability to achieve one's goal in a manner that is personally acceptable and ideally acceptable to others
• (ex. Multiple approaches, involvement, empathy, self monitoring)

The ability to construct a variety of frameworks for viewing an issue

Attending to one's behavior and using observations to shape the way one behaves

Traditions, believes, language, customes tha people share and learn

The group you identify as belonging to based on yourself

The group you identify as other based on yourself

A smaller group that is part of a larger group (ex.race,religion,age)

Communication tha occurs when members of two or more cultures or other groups eschange messages in a manner that is influenced by their different cultural perceptions and symbol systems

• values straight talk
• ask questions
• admires public speaking
• self-expression valued

• Values silence
• Politeness
• Values non-verbal communication
• talk "around" the point

• Self is important
• care of themselves and immidate family
• friends based on shared interest and activities
• value on change, youth, individual self, quality

• Group is important
• cares about extended family before self
• dont stand out
• Values order, tradition, age, group, security, status

• Describes societies that place a high value on material success
• men

• Descriptive term for cultures that regard the support of relationships as an especially important goal
• women

• Sarcasm- everything means what it mean and the opposite
• aphorisms- sayings
• directness + indirectness
• elaborate + succinct
• formality + informality

hand gestures mean different things in different cultures and its made up

Believe your culture is superior to others

Dislike or hate against a group, judge before hand

Believe all members of a group share the same trait

Think positive of others

Think negative of others

Evaluate myself in terms of others

There are perfect people in the world

The tendency of a culture's members to feel threatened by ambiguous situations, and how much they try to avoid them