CMN 120 Midterm: CMN 120 - Exam 1 Reading Note Study Guide
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Individually centered (gerald miller, 1975: centers around how individuals plan, produce and process interpersonal communication messages. Interpersonal communication occurs when people make predictions about others based on perceiving person as an individual rather than based on a social role (teacher, store clerk) Focus on mental representations that influence how people interpret info and how they behave: discourse or interaction centered, understanding interpersonal communication as a message or joint action behaviorally enacted b/w persons, moves focus away from individual. Identify theory relevant to phenomenon they want to explain and predict: deduce testable hypotheses from a theory. Imagined interactions (iis): process of social cognition in which individuals imagine & indirectly experience themselves in anticipated or past communicative encounters w/ others. Foundation of all other forms of communication (intrapersonal comm) Wide range of language features; focuses attention on. Intriguing question - how do our expectations affect our perceptions of others and our. Been tested a lot - high on testability.
