COM 125

Midterm Review: COM125

Chapter 1: About Communication

100: T/F A receiver decodes the message in the transactional communication model.

200: What three types of noise affect interpretation and decoding?

300: T/F Receivers provide feedback through verbal and nonverbal behavior.

400: Name five myths of the nature of communication.

500: Provide the formal definition of Interpersonal Communication.

BONUS: Competent Communicators share what characteristics and skills?

Chapters 2 and 3 : The Self and Perception

100: Name and describe the four quadrants of the Johari Window theory.

200: Define and explain self-fulfilling prophecy.

300: Explain 3 characteristics of high self-esteem and 3 characteristics of low self-esteem.

400: Name 3 ways we can increase our self-awareness.

500: What four characteristics make up our self-concept?

Chapters 2 and 3: The Self and Perception

100: Define and explain interpersonal perception.

200: What are the three stages of perception?

300: Explain the primacy and recency effects.

400: What is egocentrism?

500: Define and explain self-serving bias and the fundamental attribution error.

Chapters 5 and 6: Culture and Gender

100: Provide the definition of culture.

200: According to our textbook, approximately how many languages are used in the world today?

300: T/F U.S. culture tends to value equal opportunity, material comfort, practicality and efficiency, achievement, democracy, free enterprise, and individual choice.

400: Name three characteristics of individualistic and collectivistic cultures.

500: What are characteristics of low-context and high-context cultures?

Chapter 7: Verbal Communication

100: Explain the difference between denotative and connotative meanings of words.

200: Define euphemism and provide an example.

300: Explain what libel and slander statements are and what makes them different from one another.

400: What are I-statements and You-statements and when should they be used?

500: What type of characteristics does hate speech target and why should we avoid it?

Chapter 8: Nonverbal Communication

100: Name three functions of nonverbal communication.

200: Haptics is the study of what type of nonverbal communication?

300: Name four areas of vocalics related to nonverbal communication.

400: Define and explain Hall’s Spatial Zones.

500: How does our physical appearance send messages? What is the halo effect?