Interpersonal Communication II Course Review

1. Interpersonal Communication II Course Review Agenda: Fact or Crap? Discussion about questions as we go. My PowerPoints for review linked from eCompanion home page Fact or Crap???? Course Review

2. Fact or Crap? • Communication specialists are recruited by advertising and public relations firms. Fact or Crap???? Course Review

3. Fact • Communication specialists are recruited by advertising and public relations firms. Fact or Crap???? Course Review

4. Fact or Crap? • Love is a better predictor than commitment of relational continuity (endurance). Fact or Crap???? Course Review

5. Crap • Love is NOT a good predictor, and not better than commitment when it comes to relational continuity (endurance). Fact or Crap???? Course Review

6. Fact or Crap? • Only some symbols are abstract. Fact or Crap???? Course Review

7. Crap • All symbols are abstract. Fact or Crap???? Course Review

8. Fact or Crap? • One of the better known principles advanced by general semanticists is: “The word is the meaning.” Fact or Crap???? Course Review

9. Crap • One of the better known principles advanced by general semanticists is: The map is not the territory. Fact or Crap???? Course Review

10. Fact or Crap? • The I and ME are opposing parts of the human self. Fact or Crap???? Course Review http://www.savagechickens.com/images/chickenblog.jpg

11. Crap • The I and ME are complementary parts of the human self. Your image of yourself makes up your “I.” Collective judgments by significant others develop into a “Me.” Fact or Crap???? Course Review

12. Fact or Crap? • The first generation of developmental theories devoted very little attention to the process of relational decline. Fact or Crap???? Course Review

13. Fact • The first generation of developmental theories devoted very little attention to the process of relational decline. Fact or Crap???? Course Review

14. Fact or Crap? Race is a factor in intelligence. Fact or Crap???? Course Review

15. Crap • Race is NOT a factor in intelligence. Sternberg (2005) – “race is a socially constructed concept, not a biological one.” (Broderick & Blewitt, 2006) Fact or Crap???? Course Review

16. Fact or Crap? • When contradictory messages are sent through both verbal and nonverbal channels, most adults see the verbal message as more accurate. Fact or Crap???? Course Review

17. Crap • When contradictory messages are sent through both verbal and nonverbal channels, most adults see the nonverbal message as more accurate. Fact or Crap???? Course Review

18. Fact or Crap? • Actions and identities are only real to the extent that they are performed. Fact or Crap???? Course Review

19. Fact • Actions and identities are only real to the extent that they are performed. Fact or Crap???? Course Review

20. Fact or Crap? • Kenneth Burke is a preeminent performance ethnographer. Fact or Crap???? Course Review

21. Crap • Dwight Conquergood is a preeminent performance ethnographer. Burke was concerned about narratives and performance, but not an ethnographer. An ethnographer lives among the people he or she studies. Fact or Crap???? Course Review

22. Fact or Crap? • To resolve their tension, Dan and Karen give up their private time. This resolution is called reframing. Fact or Crap???? Course Review

23. Crap • To resolve their tension, Dan and Karen give up their private time. This resolution is called selection. • Reframing is changing a negative perspective to a positive one. Fact or Crap???? Course Review

24. Fact or Crap? • When Dan is late for a date, Gina snarls, "I'm going to buy you a watch." The relationship level of meaning is Dan doesn't own a watch. Fact or Crap???? Course Review

25. Crap • When Dan is late for a date, Gina snarls, "I'm going to buy you a watch." The relationship level of meaning is Dan doesn't care about Gina. Fact or Crap???? Course Review

26. Fact or Crap? • Equity refers to whether a relationship is fair and balanced to both people over time. Fact or Crap???? Course Review

27. Fact • Equity refers to whether a relationship is equitable to both people over time. Fact or Crap???? Course Review

28. Fact or Crap? • Standpoint theory has been criticized for obscuring diversity among members of groups. Fact or Crap???? Course Review

29. Fact • Standpoint theory has been criticized for obscuring diversity among members of groups by suggesting that people in a group are more similar than they probably are. Fact or Crap???? Course Review

30. Fact or Crap? • Symbolic activities that have been identified as creating and supporting particular organizational cultures are rites, rituals, and hierarchy. Fact or Crap???? Course Review

31. Fact • Symbolic activities that have been identified as creating and supporting particular organizational cultures are vocabulary, rites and stories . Fact or Crap???? Course Review

32. Fact or Crap? • McLuhan believed that the medium of communication is more important than the content. Fact or Crap???? Course Review

33. Fact • McLuhan believed that the medium of communication is more important than the content. Fact or Crap???? Course Review

34. Fact or Crap? • Printed material is a hot medium. Fact or Crap???? Course Review

35. Crap • Radio, and television are hot. Print and interactive computer games are cool because you have to DO something. Any hot medium allows less participation than a cool one. Fact or Crap???? Course Review

36. Fact or Crap? • Patriarchy literally means hatred of women. Fact or Crap???? Course Review

37. Crap • That’s misogyny and can be experienced by men or women. Remember when we talked about how some groups come to believe the negatives and dislike themselves as part of that group. • Patriarchy literally means rule by the fathers. Fact or Crap???? Course Review

38. Fact or Crap? • Modernist thinking was characterized by belief in singular truth. Fact or Crap???? Course Review

39. Crap • Modernist thinking was characterized by belief in belief in stability and belief in the coherence of social life. Fact or Crap???? Course Review

40. Fact or Crap? According to Narrative Theory, communication is how society gets into individuals so that members of a society can participated in a common social order with consensual meanings. Fact or Crap???? Course Review

41. Crap Communication is storytelling. Narrative Theory. Communication is how society gets into individuals so that members of a society can participated in a common social order with consensual meanings. Symbolic Interactionism. Fact or Crap???? Course Review

42. Fact or Crap? • According to Standpoint Theory, communication is a bartering of profits and costs. Fact or Crap???? Course Review

43. Crap • According to Social Exchange Theory, communication is a bartering of profits and costs. • Communication creates and reflects positions within a given social order. Standpoint Theory. • Communication is a process by which people try to coordinate their meanings. Rules Theory. Fact or Crap???? Course Review

44. Fact or Crap? • According to Muted Group Theory, communication is a means of reducing uncertainty. Fact or Crap???? Course Review

45. Crap • Communication is a means of reducing uncertainty. Uncertainty Reduction Theory. • Communication is an exclusionary apparatus that mutes nondominant social groups. Muted Group Theory. Fact or Crap???? Course Review

46. Fact or Crap? • According to Cultivation Theory, communication punctuates interaction to construct meaning. Fact or Crap???? Course Review

47. Crap • Communication punctuates interaction to construct meaning. General Semantics. • Communication is a means of cultivating world views. Cultivation Theory. Fact or Crap???? Course Review

48. Fact or Crap? • Communication is a symbolic dance on the stage of life. Narrative Theory. Fact or Crap???? Course Review

49. Fact • Communication is a symbolic dance on the stage of life. Narrative Theory. Fact or Crap???? Course Review

50. Fact or Crap? • Technological Determinism claims that some single cause determines other aspects of life (McLuhan).  Fact or Crap???? Course Review