TEST 2 LEARNING OBJECTIVES AND STUDY GUIDE

LECTURE:  MOTIVATORS OF COMMUNICATION

1.   Explain the relationship of motivation to communication behavior.

2.   Identify a situation and message that would exemplify each of Maslow's
and Shutz's motivators.

3.   Identify uses of communication and examples for each.

4.   Identify the functions of communication and examples
of each.

CH.2 VERBAL COMMUNICATION 

1.   Explain how communication based on inherited behavior systems 
differ from communication learned through signs and symbols.

2.   Define and distinguish signs from symbols.

3.   Explain how meanings for natural signs are acquired.

4.   Define the term semantics.

5.   Explain how meanings are acquired.

6.   Define the term concept and explain how concepts are configurations
of meaning.

7.   Explain how concepts are related to perceptions.

8.   Explain the principle of arbitrary selection.

9.  Explain the principle of conventions.

10.  Explain the meaning triangle.

11.  Distinguish between denotative and connotative meanings and
 why connotative meanings reduce the index of fidelity.

ARTICLE: WHAT IS LANGUAGE?

1.   What type of language problems did the general semanticists
     identify? Why are they problematic?

2.   What does it mean to say that language is; an activity, interrelated 
     with perception, and limits one's sense of the world? 

3.   Identify the main functions of language and explain each.

LECTURE: LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION

1.   Define equivocality, relative terms, and high abstraction and explain
why they pose vagueness and precision problems.

2.   Define metacommunication and role-taking and explain
how they can help over come the problems of vagueness and precision.

3.   Define jargon and slang and explain how they pose the problem of
comprehension in communication.

4.   Define and explain bias and trigger words.

5.   Identify the ways in which problems that contribute to vague and 
imprecise language use and the lack of shared meaning/agreement over 
language can be prevented or minimized.

CH. 3 NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION

1.   Define and explain the four functions of nonverbal communication
commonly used with our verbal messages (complementing, regulating,
substituting, contradicting).

2.   Explain what is meant by framing our verbalization.

3.   Define and explain the term symbiosis.

4.   Explain and provide examples of how the body communicates messages.

5.   Explain how artifacts are used to communicate meanings about our
personal and social attributes.

6.   Explain how clothing is used to communicate status and power,social
acceptability, occupational roles, sexual attractiveness, and inner feelings.

7.   Define and explain the terms kinesis, vocalics, oculesics, proxemics,
haptics, and chronemics.

8.  Distinguish among emblems, illustrators, and adapters.

9.  Explain how accents and tone of voice influence our judgments
about others.

10.  Explain how eye contact can communicate both positive and negative
feelings about others.

11.  Explain how feelings of embarrassment, guilt, and sadness are
communicated through eye contact.

12.Identify and distinguish the types and uses of space.

13.  Explain how distances are used differently according to various age,
gender, cultural, and socioeconomic groups.

14.  Identify the types of meanings conveyed by touch.

15.  Distinguish between time intervals.

16.  Explain communication as an integrated process.

17.  Define nonverbal immediacy and how it applies in communication.

18.  Explain the immediacy principle and how it may be applied.

19.  Identify two drawbacks of using immediacy behaviors.

ARTICLE: TOUCH, WHO NEEDS IT?

1.   Identify the three predominate ways in which adults use touch
and why.

2.   Describe the predominate messages of touch and why limiting to
handshakes, sexual intercourse, and hostility poses a problem.

LECTURES:  DIMENSIONS OF NONVERBAL COMM. 

1.   Define and exemplify the four types of nonverbal competency.

2.   Explain the how nonverbal works with verbal communication,
across cultural/subcultural communicators, and contributes to
social/relational aspects of communication.
 
3.   Identify and explain the three dimensions of nonverbal communication.

4    Identify and explain each the types of functions of nonverbal
communication and provide an example of each.