COMM 1500- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 36 pages long!)

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 1500
• Professor: Cone

Document Summary

If one discriminates well, it doesn"t describe completely. 5 principles of ipc: symbolic: language is symbolic, we give it meaning, learned: it"s a learned process, used to manage our relationships, social: involves multiple people, irreversible: once something is communicated, it cannot be taken back. 2 methods of studying communication: qualitative: no experience can be generalized, quantitative: put people"s experiences into numbers and statistics. Field of experience: everything about who you are as a person: transactional: reciprocal sending and receiving of messages. Shared meaning is built through simultaneous sending and receiving: noise: distorts/interrupts the message exchange, physical, physiological: internal body state, psychological: thoughts, semantic: non-shared meaning. Communication, perception and the self: the self, assumption: an individual"s self-influences, how one communicates, with whom one communicates, how one interprets communication, all 3 interrelated but slightly different, each influences the others, self-awareness: info we have about ourselves. Individual dimensions affecting the self: machiavellianism (don"t need to know this for exam, loneliness, narcissism.