COM 120 Chapter 1 Terms

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Across
  1. 5. Not only a physical location but also the personal experiences and cultural background that participants bring to a conversation.
  2. 8. _______ Communication Model - A model of communication that updates and expands the linear model to better capture communication as a uniquely human process
  3. 12. A culture that exists within a greater culture
  4. 14. ______Communication Model- A model of communication that depicts communication as something a sender “does to” a receiver
  5. 15. The medium through which a message passes
  6. 16. Putting thoughts into symbols and gestures
  7. 18. The information being transmitted
  8. 19. The person creating the message
  9. 21. _______ Dimension - The dimension of communication that expresses how you feel about the other person
  10. 22. Distractions that disrupt transmission
Down
  1. 1. The person attending to the message
  2. 2. ______ goals- Getting others to behave in ways we want
  3. 3. _______ Competence Communicating in a way that involves achieving one’s goals in a manner that, in most cases, maintains or enhances the relationship in which it occurs
  4. 4. ________ Communication- When members from two or more cultures/co-cultures interact in a way that is influenced by their different symbol systems and cultural perception
  5. 6. Two interacting people
  6. 7. ________ Communication -A transactional process involving participants who occupy different but overlapping environments and create meaning and relationships through the exchange of messages, many of which are affected by external, physiological, and psychological noise
  7. 9. The process of paying close attention to one’s behavior and using these observations to shape the way one behaves
  8. 10. ______ Communication - The opposite of interpersonal communication
  9. 11. Making sense of the message
  10. 13. The complex system of learned values, norms, traditions, languages, and symbols shared by a group of people
  11. 17. _____ Dimension - The information being explicitly discussed
  12. 20. _____Complexity The ability to construct a variety of frameworks for viewing an issue