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C464 WGU Questions and Answers 100% Pass linear model of communication ✔✔one-way view of communication that assumes a message is sent by a source to a receiver through a channel Five phases of... linear model of communication ✔✔1. Deciding on the message 2. Encoding the message 3. Transmitting the message 4. Perceiving the message 5. Decoding and assigning meaning to the message transactional model of communication ✔✔the theory that views communication as a constant process in which all parties simultaneously play the roles of sender and receiver 3 interrelated skill sets or dimensions of communication competence ✔✔1. Sensing what is appropriate in a given situation 2. Building and developing communication skills 3. Motivation 3 stages of perception ✔✔selection, organization, interpretation What is selective exposure? ✔✔the tendency to seek information and media that agree with one's views and to avoid dissonant information What is selective attention? ✔✔the focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus selective recall ✔✔process that occurs when we remember things we want to remember and forget or repress things that are unpleasant, uncomfortable, or unimportant to us selective perception ✔✔The phenomenon that people often pay the most attention to things they already agree with and interpret them according to their own predispositions. What is closure? ✔✔The brains tendency to fill in the blanks What is proximity? ✔✔physical or geographical nearness What is similarity? ✔✔extent to which we have things in common with others, a predictor of attraction What is figure-ground perception? "Figure" ✔✔the perception of figures against a background What is self-esteem? ✔✔a measure of how much you value, respect, and feel confident about yourself What is self-concept? ✔✔all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question, "Who am I?" self-presentation ✔✔presenting the person we would like others to believe we are What is attribution error ✔✔Using a negative view or reasons to account for our own or others behavior What is the fundamental attribution error? ✔✔the mistake we make when we attribute other people's positive characteristics and successes to external, situational factors, and their negative characteristics and failures to aspects of who they ar [Show More]

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