COMM 1025 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Personal Construct Theory, Impression Formation, Sicilian School
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Chapter 1: historical foundations (understand overall development across time periods, but also specific details for each person and era) Encoding/decoding: sender has an idea, put into words/emojis and sends it: receiver has to decode it. Noise : process: transfer of meaning, metaphor: machine. People (as representatives of culture or society) Relationship: process: patterned interaction; interdependent move-making, metaphor: game, emphasis: interdependence; system , effective communication: accomplishing goals of interaction; productive patterns, purpose of research: describing patterns of behavior over time, research methods: survey, observation in natural setting, conversation analysis. Mental framework through which we structure our experiences: cafeteria map from mean girls movie (maps out people. 4 types of cognitive schemata: you will encounter: prototype. Think of a category of people, events, or interactions. Ideal example of that category (prototypical gw student) Think clueless: amber is a prototypical bitch: personal constructs. Bipolar scales of judgement or mental yardsticks that allow us to measure phenomena along a particular dimension.
