UCSB Comm 1 Midterm #1 Latest Questions With Passed Solutions

UCSB Comm 1 Midterm #1
4/4 main spheres of influence: THE CRITICAL SENTENCE - ✔️✔️•that frames the
interaction
•outermost sphere
• Surrounding culture; culture is the backdrop of situations
•Culture influences which messages are considered to be appropriate and effective and
strongly affects our generation(e.g. Bob comes from a culture where it is disrespectful to
question adults, but Billy comes from a culture that encourages him to do so)


Encoding - ✔️✔️Making/putting into words

Intrapersonal Communications - ✔️✔️•Communication within a person
•Talking to self, dairy, etc
•Focuses on how we think or process info about other people (e.g. making attributions
or forming impressions

Attribution - ✔️✔️Expressing one's self

Interpersonal Communications - ✔️✔️•Communication with another dyad(pairs of
individuals) [e.g. partner, brother, family]
•Can be face to face or mediated
• focus is on relational development and Intimacy (e.g. Making friends or conflict)

Intergroup/Intercultural - ✔️✔️•Communication between members of different groups
or cultures(e.g. Age groups, gender, religion)
• Focus is on interaction and identity based on group memberships (ingroup/outgroup
communication)

Ingroup/outgroup - ✔️✔️Same/different

Small group - ✔️✔️•talking about people working together
•interaction among 3 or more people
•Focus is on how groups interact, achieve goals, make decisions(leadership)

Organizational - ✔️✔️•Communication among other organizations (or between different
organizations)
•Focus is on formal and informal networks, rules, and norms in an org(e.g. Leadership,
collaboration mostly within a company workplace)

Public - ✔️✔️•1 or a few individuals to an audience
• face to face but with a "distance"

, • focus' on public speaking (e.g. Rhetoric, performance)

Mass - ✔️✔️•Mediated messages disseminated(spread)on a large scale, have to be
mediated to go to large
• Traditionally professional communicators, but can be anyone
•Focus is on effects of messages on audiences or media role in society/culture(e.g. Tv
effects;news coverage, newspaper, radio)

LINEAR MODEL of COMMUNICATION - ✔️✔️•scholars proposed that a sender
originated communication with words of actions constituting the message
• The message is then carried through a channel(air and sound waves, written or visual,
over telephone lines, cables, or electronic transmissions) along the way some
interference might occur like noise



INTERACTION MODEL - ✔️✔️•Shows communication as a 2-directional process that
incorporates feedback into communication between sender and receiver
•There is feedback...There is response

COMPETENT COMMUNICATION MODEL - ✔️✔️•Not only does it include feedback,
but also shows communication as ongoing.
•TRANSACTIONAL PROCESS; the individuals( or groups or organizations) are
interdependent.
•face to face communication influences each individual at the same time
•4 main spheres of influence at play

Interdependent - ✔️✔️Their actions affect one another and they exchange irreversible
messages

1/4 main spheres of influence: THE COMMUNICATORS - ✔️✔️•2 individuals are
shown here but many variations are possible, one speaking to an audience of 200, 6
individuals in a group meeting, etc.
-each is influenced by cognitions(thoughts they have about themselves or others,
including understanding of who they are, how successful they think they will be)
-Cognitio What is communication? - ✔️✔️•Discipline that grew out of other disciplines.
•Process by which individuals use symbols, signs, and behaviors to exchange
information.
• Is also a systematic cognitive process meaning it doesn't just happen; there are
patents and norms people follow
-Encoding and decoding of the messages that are being transmitted
ns influence behavior when we communicated