Midterm Review: COM125
Chapter 1: About Communication
100: T/F A receiver decodes the message in the transactional communication model.
200: What three types of noise affect interpretation and decoding?
300: T/F Receivers provide feedback through verbal and nonverbal behavior.
400: Name five myths of the nature of communication.
500: Provide the formal definition of Interpersonal Communication.
BONUS: Competent Communicators share what characteristics and skills?
Chapters 2 and 3 : The Self and Perception
100: Name and describe the four quadrants of the Johari Window theory.
200: Define and explain self-fulfilling prophecy.
300: Explain 3 characteristics of high self-esteem and 3 characteristics of low self-esteem.
400: Name 3 ways we can increase our self-awareness.
500: What four characteristics make up our self-concept?
Chapters 2 and 3: The Self and Perception
100: Define and explain interpersonal perception.
200: What are the three stages of perception?
300: Explain the primacy and recency effects.
400: What is egocentrism?
500: Define and explain self-serving bias and the fundamental attribution error.
Chapters 5 and 6: Culture and Gender
100: Provide the definition of culture.
200: According to our textbook, approximately how many languages are used in the world today?
300: T/F U.S. culture tends to value equal opportunity, material comfort, practicality and efficiency, achievement, democracy, free enterprise, and individual choice.
400: Name three characteristics of individualistic and collectivistic cultures.
500: What are characteristics of low-context and high-context cultures?
Chapter 7: Verbal Communication
100: Explain the difference between denotative and connotative meanings of words.
200: Define euphemism and provide an example.
300: Explain what libel and slander statements are and what makes them different from one another.
400: What are I-statements and You-statements and when should they be used?
500: What type of characteristics does hate speech target and why should we avoid it?
Chapter 8: Nonverbal Communication
100: Name three functions of nonverbal communication.
200: Haptics is the study of what type of nonverbal communication?
300: Name four areas of vocalics related to nonverbal communication.
400: Define and explain Hall’s Spatial Zones.
500: How does our physical appearance send messages? What is the halo effect?
COM125 Midterm Exam Review Terms
Chapter 1:
Channel
Cognitive complexity
Communication competence
Context
Decode
Dyad
Empathy
Encode
Ethics
Explicit/Implicit rules
Feedback
Interpersonal communication
Message
Metacommunication
Model
Noise
Receiver
Self-monitoring
Source
Symbol
Chapter 2:
Breadth
Depth
Face needs
Face-threatening acts
Identity
Image
Image management
Johari Window
Media
Personality
Reflected appraisal
Self-concept
Self-disclosure
Self-esteem
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Self-perception
Social comparison
Social penetration theory
Chapter 3:
Attribution
Egocentric
Fundamental attribution error
Interpersonal perception
Interpretation
Negativity bias
Organization
Overattribution
Perception
Perceptual improvement
Perceptual set
Positivity bias
Primacy effect
Recency effect
Selection
Self-fulfilling prophecies
Self-serving bias
Stereotypes
Chapters 5 and 6:
Co-cultures
Collectivistic cultures
Communication codes
Culture
Ethnicity
Ethnocentrism
Expressive talk
Gender differences
Gender roles
High-context cultures
High-power-distance cultures
Individualistic cultures
In-group
Instrumental talk
Low-context cultures
Low-power-distance cultures
Masculinity
Out-group
Uncertainty avoidance
Chapter 7:
Ambiguous language
Confirming messages
Connotative meaning
Credibility
Defamation
Defensiveness
Denotative meaning
Disconfirming messages
Ethos
Euphemism
Evaluative feedback
Hate speech
I-statement
Language
Libel
Loaded language
Logos
Non-evaluative feedback
Pathos
Reason
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Slander
Slang
You-statements
Chapter 8:
Adaptor
Affect display
Artifact
Chronemics
Emblem
Facial display
Halo effect
Haptics
Illustrator
Kinesics
Nonverbal channels
Oculesics
Olfactics
Personal distance
Proxemics
Public distance
Regulator
Social distance
Turn-taking signal
Vocalics
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