Exam Notes:

Exam Notes:

1. Ch 1

2. Ch 2

3. Ch 3

4. Ch 4

5. Ch 5

6. Ch 6

7. Ch 7

8. Ch 4

   • Worldview
     • (basically story)
       • surrounded by values
         • by sociocultural institutions
           • leads to outward observable behavior
   • culture and co culture
   • Low and High power distance (democratic vs. authoritarian),(formal vs informal)
   • Monocrhonic and polychronic times
   • High and Low context cultures. Meaning is implied vs specific (bad word for it)

9. Ch 7

   • Why people for relationships: Appearance, Similarity, Complementarity, Reciprocal Attraction, Competence, Disclosure, Proximity, and Rewards
   • Mark Knapp's stages of coming together and apart: Initiating, experimenting, intensifying, Integrating, bonding. Differentiating, Circumscribing, stgnating, avoiding, terminating.
   • Dialectical tensions (has to do with two differing desires (forces) at a time)
   • types of intimacy: Physical, Intellectual, Emotional, shared activities.

10. Ch 1

    • Linear and Transactional model.
      • Five canons of rhetoric: Invention, delivery, arrangement, style, memory. Three persuasive appeals: Ethos, Pathos, Logos.
        • Done.

11. Ch 2

    • Competent communication consists of appropriateness, effectiveness, and ethics.
    • Listening! HURIER: Hearing, Understanding, Remembering, Interpreting, Evaluating, Responding.
    • Types of listening: Informational, Critical, Empathic, and Appreciative.

12. Ch 3

    • Self concept leads to self esteem.
    • Info learned in 3 ways: sensory, short, and long term memory.
    • 6 stages of religious identity.
    • Attribution theory [explains behaviors]: internal and external.
    • Worldview: A conceptualization of reality; a belief in how things are or ought to be and a foundation for acting in one’s environment. Worldview assumptions are often tacitly assumed..

13. Ch 5

    • Language is made of signs and symbols.
    • Functions of language: referential, emotive, Conative, phatic, Metalingual, Poetic.
    • Examples of Powerless Language
      • Hedges
        • Hesitations
          • Intensifyers
            • Polite forms
              • Meaningless particles

14. Ch 6

    • Nonverbal communication functions: repeating, contradicting, substituting, Complementing accenting, regulating, and decieving
    • Types of nonverbal communication: Proxemics, Kinesics Haptics Paralanguage Chronemics Artifacts Environmental Factors Silence. See actual page for definitions