Assignment:
Part 1: About Communication
1. T/F A receiver decodes the message in the transactional communication model.
2. What three types of noise affect interpretation and decoding?
3. T/F Receivers provide feedback through verbal and nonverbal behavior.
4. Name five myths of the nature of communication.
5. Provide the formal definition of Interpersonal Communication.
BONUS: Competent Communicators share what characteristics and skills?
Part 2. The Self and Perception
1. Name and describe the four quadrants of the Johari Window theory.
2. Define and explain self-fulfilling prophecy.
3. Explain 3 characteristics of high self-esteem and 3 characteristics of low self-esteem.
4. Name 3 ways we can increase our self-awareness.
5. What four characteristics make up our self-concept?
Part 3. The Self and Perception
1. Define and explain interpersonal perception.
2. What are the three stages of perception?
3. Explain the primacy and recency effects.
4. What is egocentrism?
5. Define and explain self-serving bias and the fundamental attribution error.
Part 4. Culture and Gender
1. Provide the definition of culture.
2. According to our textbook, approximately how many languages are used in the world today?
3. T/F U.S. culture tends to value equal opportunity, material comfort, practicality and efficiency, achievement, democracy, free enterprise, and individual choice.
4. Name three characteristics of individualistic and collectivistic cultures.
5. What are characteristics of low-context and high-context cultures?
Part 5. Verbal Communication
1. Explain the difference between denotative and connotative meanings of words.
2. Define euphemism and provide an example.
3. Explain what libel and slander statements are and what makes them different from one another.
4. What are I-statements and You-statements and when should they be used?
5. What type of characteristics does hate speech target and why should we avoid it?
Part 6. Nonverbal Communication
1. Name three functions of nonverbal communication.
2. Haptics is the study of what type of nonverbal communication?
3. Name four areas of vocalics related to nonverbal communication.
4. Define and explain Hall's Spatial Zones.
5. How does our physical appearance send messages? What is the halo effect?