Liberty University: COMS101 Test #1 With Questions And 100% SURE
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Words are LITERAL if... they are used to signify the person, place, thing, etc. that the words evidently symbolize.
they are used indirectly to signify a secondary meaning that is not patently obvious when the words
Words are FIGURATIVE if...
are taken at face value.
Dysphemism the figurative use of a harsh term instead of a mild term for an intended effect.
Kinesics the use of BODY LANGUAGE and movements to impact a recipient's interpretation of the message.
Proxemics the use of SPACE to impact a recipient's interpretation of the message.
Haptics The sender's use of TOUCH to impact a recipient's interpretation of the message.
Monochromic cultures view time in highly STRUCTURED manner
Polychromic cultures are LESS structured and have fewer rules governing the use of time.
, A person's answers to questions about worldview
communications significance will be powerfully
influenced by his or her...
a worldview is the belief system that you practice in set of beliefs statements that you overwhelm when asked to do so.
daily life, not just the...
If the beliefs a person professes contradict the ones hypocritical, delusional, or ignorant.
he/she actually practice, he/she is...
the 3 majors factors contribute to the development socialization, physical constitution, and spiritual constitution.
of one's worldview:
belief that people develop on their own, primarily in response to what human standards have taught
Autonomous worldview systems are...
them to deem believable or acceptable.
hold a belief, feeling, or behavior is acceptable if it simply "works" for the person who holds it,
pragmatic truth standards...
regardless of whether it logically makes consists with anyone else's experiences or standards.
hold a belief, feeling, or behavior is acceptable if it promotes the greatest good not for the
Utilitarian truth standards...
individual but for humanity as a whole.
From a Biblically Christian standpoint, autonomous intellectual and spiritual.
approaches to explaining human origin, nature,
purpose, and destiny and to providing meaningful
for appreciating communication are plagued by
problems that although ___ and ethical on their
surface are fundamentally______
Thus people live in a self-inflicted state of______ corruption and completion
having divorced ourselves the very One for Whom
we were created and in Whose restored fellowship
we find our____
Truth the Biblically informed theist understands is illusion and construction
not a biochemical_______ or a social _____ but that
which is actually is the case, regardless of how it is
perceived.
Thus is right frames our questions to understand the universe
______ and our place in it.
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