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UCLA COMM 10 MIDTERM NEWEST 2024 ACTUAL
EXAM 200 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS WITH EXAMPLES (VERIFIED ANSWERS )
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Communication Studies as a Social Science - ANSWER- follows social rules; focuses on the experience of everyday life
lives are filled with communication that follows the norms
What are norms? - ANSWER- rules of what behavior is acceptable in a given situation
What are three different types of norms? - ANSWER- folkways mores taboos
What are folkways? - ANSWER- social rules to which people generally conform but receive little pressure to do so
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What are mores? - ANSWER- breaking them brings a bigger deal
ex: lack of clothing of adults
What are taboos? - ANSWER- so strongly held that doesn't need to be written in law
ex: incest, necrophilia
Categories of Pick-up lines - ANSWER- 1. friendly
ex: do you have room in life for a new friend?
- offbeat
- random icebreaker line
- humorous
- attempting with humor
- altar
- not so cliche 2 / 4
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ex: you look just like my third husband.
- seductive
- demonstrates both romantic and sexual
- dramatic but not dirty
- should stir but not shock
Model of Communication - ANSWER- models and visual representation
- break it down to components
What is SEMCDR? - ANSWER- source encoder message channel decoder receiver
What is source? - ANSWER- idea or person
- original idea which is to be communicated
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What is encoder? - ANSWER- reason/thinking
- takes original idea/thoughts and puts them into a form someone
else will understand
What is decoding? - ANSWER- taking things into idea (hearing/reading)
- interprets encoded message and takes action
What is receiver? - ANSWER- decides what action to take
What is message? - ANSWER- break down into 3 aspects:
code content treatment
- use code (symbol system): language
What is message code? - ANSWER- facial expressions, clothes, music, shape
What is message content? - ANSWER- what part of the message is being communicated
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