COMM 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nonverbal Communication, Uncertainty Reduction Theory, Emotional Expression
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Lecture 2-studying communication as a science: the field of communication, humanistic approaches, rhetoric, study of using language to persuade, example: public speaking, like to look at the language we use, very subjective. Issues: goal: drawing causal conclusions, requires random assignment to conditions, limitations, hard to generalize results from lab experiment, artificial setting, limited subject population, requires strong procedure to prevent issues, heise(cid:374)(cid:271)e(cid:396)g"s u(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:396)tai(cid:374)t(cid:455) p(cid:396)i(cid:374)(cid:272)iple, all measurement contains error, reliability. Select: so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g that"s i(cid:374)te(cid:374)se, so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g that"s (cid:396)epetitious, something that changes, 2. Intelligence: dispositional intelligence, flexible expectations, awareness of limitations. Inferences: drawing conclusions from information we have in front of us, dichotomies, opposites, equivocal language. Improving listening skill: active listening, 1. paraphrasing, 2. reflection, 3. Illustrates: methods of nonverbal (types of nonverbal communication, paralanguage. Lecture 7- the communication of emotion: verbal vs. Involves signs, not symbols: nonpropositional (never false, mainly right brained, symbolic communication, allows us to communicate about higher level things (ex.
