WorksheetsL1 QUIZ_INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNICATION THEORY
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 21mins
According to Beaton, 2017...
Communication is easy.
Communication skill is important—you need only to peruse
the content of talk shows, dating apps, advice columns, and
organizational performance reviews to recognize that communication
skills can make or break an individual’s personal and professional life.
Companies want to hire and promote people with excellent communication skills.
a weapon in successful relationships,
organizations, businesses, etc.
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a complex process associated with sending, receiving, and interpreting messages.
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According to Dance and Larson (1976), we define communication according to three variations:
observation
intentionality
normative judgment
the scope of what is included in the definition. Dance defined communication as “eliciting a response through verbal symbols.”
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“those situations in which a source transmits a message to a receiver with conscious intent to affect the latter’s behaviors”
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focused on whether the definition requires an indication of success or accuracy.
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Berelson and Steiner (1964) say,
communication is “the transmission of information, ideas, emotions, skills, etc., by the use of—symbols—words, pictures, figures, graphs, etc.
the receiver and the source share the same understanding after the communicative effort.
Context of Communication
Cognitive
Individual and Social
Interpersonal and Intercultural
Persuasive and Group
Theories
simply provide an abstract understanding of the
communication process (Miller, 2002).
an abstract understanding, they move beyond describing a single event by providing a means by which all such events can be understood.
Other functions of theories are to focus attention on particular concepts, clarify observations, predict communication behavior, and generate personal and social change (Littlejohn, 1989)
Concept
refers to an agreed-upon aspect of reality.
notions are abstract, meaning they can be applied to a variety of individual experiences or objects and can be understood in different ways.
represent an effort to define or classify something, but they do not provide insights into how or why we experience them in a particular way.
Models
are physical representation of a theory (i.e., a diagram).
Precursor to a theory (a model is developed and eventually becomes a theory)
predict or understand one or more concepts.
Common sense theory, Working theory, Scholarly theories
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often created by an individual’s own personal experiences or developed from helpful hints passed on from family members, friends, or colleagues.
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generalizations made in particular professions about the best techniques for doing something.
more systematic than commonsense theories because they represent agreed-on ways of doing things for a particular profession (public relations, media production, or public speaking.
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provide more thorough, accurate, and abstract explanations for communication than do commonsense or working theories.
More complex and difficult to understand.
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systematic research supports the explanations provided by the theory.
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a theory with more applications is better than a theory without practical uses.
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refers to whether or not a theory’s explanation or description is sufficiently concise.
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is concerned with the logic of the theory.
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the ideas of the theory are logically built on one another
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refers to the theory’s coherence with other widely held theories.
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refers to the ability of a theory to provide insight into an otherwise intricate issue
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