COMM 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Communicative Action, Orthogenesis, Interpersonal Communication
3 Apr 2016
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We talked about it as an epistemological tradition and now well talk about constructivism, the communication theory approach vs. Theory: the tradition is a highly interpretive approach, theory takes something from this perspective but uses a more scientific approach to get at and utilize that. Closely related to schemas: mental images used to piece together items in memory. Constructs are similar forms of mental organization: interpersonal constructs: cognitive templates/stencils we fit over social reality to order our impressions of people, constructivists theorists: use the role category questionnaire to assess the complexity of a respondent"s. List attributes about 2 people you know. Count number of traits- no physical markers. The count serves as an index of social perception skill: similarities or contrasts with constructs guide interpretation of. Proposed in 1970s by jesse delia: interpersonal scholar by trade, worked at university of illinois" speech communication dept. One of the last in america to drop the word speech .
