Comm 10

Rules on what is expected in a given situation.

Folkways, Mores, Taboos

Lightly held norms. Not a big deal if you break them.

More strongly held norms. Breaking is a bigger deal.

Most strongly held norms. Laws against such action.

You should wear matching socks.

Adults playing naked on the front lawn.

Having sex with a family member (incest). Having sex with a dead person (Necrophilia).

Friendly, Offbeat, Humorous, Altar, Seductive.

"Would you mind some conversation while we wait?"

"Do you think we are ever going to switch to the metric system?"

"So what's a nice girl like you doing in an elevator like this?"

"You look just like my 3rd husband." (only had 2!)

"You are the sexiest woman in the room."

Source, Encoder, Message, Channel, Decoder, Receiver.

The person with the thought/idea to communicate.

Takes the thought/idea and puts it into some form that people can understand.

Code-any system of symbols by which we communicate. Must be shared to be understood. (language)

What is being communicated. (the general idea)

how you say what you say. (non-verbal things like tone and volume)

When the content and treatment of a message clash. (We tend to listen to the treatment in these cases)

The medium used to get a message from source to receiver. (face to face, TV, etc.)

Person who receives the message being sent.

The receiver becoming the source.

Model in which there is a constant change of source and and reciever. Feedback is involved.

Can only define communication that is one way. (SEMCDR Model)

Interferes with the nessage being sent. Interferes with the fidelity of the message.

Internal Noise- noise that is going on within you. (cannot be externally removed)

originates from the outside world.

Hunger, sickness, distractions

Jackhammer outside, 100 degrees in classroom, hot person sitting next to you.

High Fidelity Message-messgae getting through without distortion. (Noise)

Low Fidelity Message

Face to face.

TV with a lot of static.

Intrapersonal, Interparsonal, Small Group, Mass

Communication with one's self.

Communication between 2 people.

If you know the other members by name or sight and can recognize when one member is missing or when a new person is there.

Big group where there is too many people to know by sight. (often linear form of communication)

Thoughts, feelings.

Sitting across a table talking on a date.

Basketball team meeting in person.

Lecture in college.

Something inanimate coming in between the source and the receiver.

You thinking your own thoughts.

Writing yourself a note, keeping a diary.

Speaking to someone face to face.

Talking on the phone, writing a letter, sending a text.

A study group in which everyone sits around a table talking face to face.

A business meeting using google dox.

aka. Public Communication. One person talking to a large group without a medium.

Giving a lecture using a microphone.

Painting- paint for yourself, then show it to you friend, then show it to your art class, then take it to a museam.

Two people can see the same thing yet have totally different interpretations of it.

Reception, Analysis

The operation of our senses. Relatively automatic.

Active stage of perception. Includes focusing, organizing, and interpreting.

You see 5 billion stimuli. Your brain can only process 500. Therefore we must select what to focus upon. Those 500 vary from person to person which explains how different people have different perceptions.

Factors relating to objects /stimuli

Factors within ourselves

Ease, Intensity, Contrast, Repetition

We select what is closest to us, what sticks out.

We select things that exist in extreme. We notice that which is loud, bright, etc.

We select things because they are different.

We select that which is we see/hear over and over.

You pay attention to an elephant in class.

You pay attention to a siren.

You pay attention to Pringles at the store because they are in a can and not a bag.

You pay attention to commercial slogans that you hear many times.

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Motivation, Mood, Attitudes,Roles, Selective Attention, Culture, Language, Past Learning Experiences, Psychological Tendencies

Man cheated on woman, now she thinks all men are untrustworthy.

Flash 2 images, one in each eye. A baseball player and a bull fighter. Over 90% of people in Mexico saw the bull fighter. Over 90% of people in America saw the baseball player.

In Arabic there are two words for color- hot and cool. In English there are many words for color.

The idea that language alters our perception of reality.

You are more likely to see an advertisement for food when you are hungry.

Your culture, your family, your own past learning experiences, the mass media

A positive steryotype with a ______. Example- we admire athletes BUT they are just dumb jocks.

Each focuses on a different thing in the park based on their occupation. A zoologist, a psychologist, and a pick pocket.

Study with people in different moods. All shown picture of kids digging in the mud. Happy sees kids having fun. Anxious worries that someone is going to get hurt and that no adult is watching them. Etc.

The referee is always unfair to your team. Why? Because you are favorably predisposed toward your own team.

Selective Exposure, Selective Attention, Selective Retention

Tendency to expose yourself to messages that agree with your beliefs and values.

Tendency to pay more attention to the part of the message that is consistent with your beliefs and tune out the ones that counter it.

Tendency, if you have listened to all parts of the message and are later asked what was said, you are more likely to be able to tell people those parts of the message that you agreed with.

Paying attention to opinions counter to yours to make yourself feel superior.

An athiest is not likely to go to church.

Obama talks about economics and you listen because you agree. He then talks about the war and you tune him out because you don't agree.

When asked about Obamas speech last night you tell your friend how he talked about economics and not about the war because you agree with his stance on economics but not the war.

A relatively stable set of perceptions that you have about yourself.

Self Identity, Self Image, Self Esteem

The social positions that you occupy. Who you are in relation to other people.

Refers to the qualities/skills/characteristics that you think you have.

Refers to how you feel about yourself emotionally. How you rank yourself in terms of self identity and self image.

He is a student,a friend, a son.

She considers herself to be kind, intelligent, attractive, a good pool player.

Other people function as a mirror. Based upon the concept of role taking-where you put yourself in someone elses position.

1. you imagine how your actions appear to others (in basketball-how is your shooting)

2. you imagine how other people are judging these actions (this person is a good basketball player/athlete)

3. you make some type of self judgement based upon how you think others are judging you (I am a good basketball player)

4. ***problem-in this process what you think others are thinking is more important than what they acutally are in this model (anorexia)

3 Basic Social Needs:

The need for inclusion

The need for control

The need for affection

Oversocial- joining every club in high school

Undersocial- people who don't want to belong to anything

Healthy- join a few groups that apply to you

Autocrats- people with too much control

Abdicrats- people who have too little of the control need

Healthy- democrat

Overpersonal- too much of the affection need

Underpersonal- people who don't want to be touched

Healthy- personal