CAS 101 N - exam 3 review

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What does uncertainty reduction theory claim about uncertainty?

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Uncertainty is uncomfortable and we don’t like it, so we seek information about people in order to reduce uncertainty.

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__________ is defined as sharing a wide variety of personal information with someone; information is not private, but sharing it builds the relationships in its early stages

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Breadth of disclosure

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True or False: Knapp's relational staircase model claims that relationships come together and come apart linearly, or in order of the steps.

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False

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________ is the human use of symbols to make meaning about the world and experience that, consequently, has intended and unintended effects on ourselves and others.

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Rhetoric

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Mass media studies of training films during WWII showed how the evolving medium of film __________________.

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intervened on the problem of limited personnel and illiteracy

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Which of the following is not an example of an institution according to the critical approach to rhetoric? Mass media, Science, Education

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Communism

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Christianity, democracy, Islam, communism, free-markets, American exceptionalism, and conservatism are all examples of what?

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Ideologies

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The critical approach to rhetoric is not characterized by a single method or theory. Instead, it is made up of two general processes: ________________ and ________________.

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negative critique and positive critique

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What did Marshall McLuhan mean by "the medium is the message"?

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In the history of society, specific messages matter less than the systems that deliver those messages.

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What is the general argument of the hyperpersonal perspective in computer-mediated communication research?

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Computer-mediated communication is more socially desirable than what we tend to experience in parallel face-to-face interaction.