COM ARTS 266 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Donald Broadbent, Ultimate Attribution Error, Crowd Psychology
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This review sheet is not designed to give you all the information you"ll need for the exam. It should merely help get your studying underway and assist you in thinking about what kinds of issues may be emphasized on the exam. Remember, you will be tested on material from a) lecture and b) assigned readings in the forsyth textbook and bargh & mckenna (2004). Verbal and nonverbal [this topic is entirely from lecture: definitions; how verbal and nonverbal work together to create meaning. Non verbal- all other communication that creates meaning. In face to face context 35% through verbal and 65% through non verbal: types of misunderstandings in verbal communication. Abstractness-it is harder to communicate at higher levels of abstraction. Ambiguity- when a communication can reasonably be understood in more than one way. Bypassing- using the same words but meaning different things or using different words for saying the same thing: three principles of non-verbal.