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Intrapersonal Communication
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Communication that takes place
within yourself.
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EX: Deciding what to wear in the
morning.
Interpersonal Communication
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Communication that involves 2
or more persons.
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EX: Discussing your plans for the
weekend with your friend.
Nonverbal
Communication/Symbols
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Anything used to communicate
that DOES NOT use language.
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EX: Picture, facial expression
Verbal
Communication/Symbols
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Anything used to communicate
that relies on language and
words.
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EX: Writing a letter.
Fields of Experience
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Areas of knowledge, interest, or
involvement.
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EX: Taking a class in US History
allows me to expand my
knowledge of history.
Conversation
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One-to-one interpersonal
communication on a topic of
interest to both people.
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EX: Texting with your BFF
Thinking
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The ability of humans to
understand, conceive, and
manipulate ideas.
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EX: Listening to someone talk,
processing it, and then being able
to change that information.
Reasoning
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The ability to think, form
judgments, and draw
conclusions.
The process of putting evidence
together into a logical argument.
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EX: Taking information about
politics and putting it into an
argument to convince someone
else.
Memory
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The brain’s storage bin.
The ability to and process of
recalling facts previously
learned or past experiences.
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EX: Susan told me something on
Tuesday and on Thursday I bring
it up in a conversation.
Decoding
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Translating incoming information
or messages into
understandable concepts.
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EX: Jonathan says something out
loud, you hear and understand
what he means.
Encoding
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Putting a message into symbols.
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EX: You are thinking about the
answer to a question, you then
formulate how you can say that
answer out loud.
Listening Barriers
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Distraction
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Daydreaming

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EX: Thinking about your video game
during class.
Close-mindedness
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EX: Noise
EX: You won’t listen to Mary because
she doesn’t have your same opinion.
Listening only to what is easy to
understand
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You tune out when someone uses a big
word.
Symbol
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Anything that stands for
something else and is used for
communication.
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EX: $, language
Paralanguage
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The ways in which you say
words, including volume, pitch,
speaking rate, and voice quality,
as well as sounds that are not
words.
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EX: Sarcasm
Pitch
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The highness or lowness of
sounds
Volume
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The loudness or quietness of
sound.
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EX: Yelling, whispering
Controls of Nervousness
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Preparation
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Relaxation
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Jokes, Funny Phrases
Movement
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Focus on your subject, not yourself
Humor
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Positive Self Talk, Reflect on Yourself
Concentration
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Yawn, Stretch, Close Eyes, Breathe Deep
Attitude
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Research, Study, Write
Use Structured Movement
Practice
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Say aloud, In front of people
Controlled Stage Fright
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The realization that a feeling of
tension is natural and can
actually sharpen thinking, so
that nervousness can be
regulated.
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EX: You have practiced and feel
confident, as your body starts to
get nervous, you tell yourself you
can do this.
Runaway Stage Fright
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Feelings of anxiety that are so
intense that one loses control.
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EX: You start to feel nervous and
continue thinking about that
nervousness unitl it gets so bad
you are shaking.
Audience Analysis
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Learning everything you can
about the background, attitudes,
and interests of the people who
will listen to you.
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EX: Finding out the general age
range of your audience to pick the
right type of language.
Specific Purpose
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The intention of a speaker; that
which the speaker wants the
listeners to know, think, believe,
or do as a result of hearing a
speech.
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EX: I write my speech about
pandas because I want people to
know more about them.
Figurative Language
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Simile
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Metaphor
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The bed was a fluffy cloud.
Personification
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The bed was as soft as a cloud.
The air was angry as it whipped through
the trees.
Hyperbole
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There were 100 million people at the
mall on Saturday.
Speech Delivery Methods
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Manuscript
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Memorization
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You learn and recite the speech wordfor-word without any notes.
Extemporaneous
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You write the speech out as a script and
read it to the audience.
You prepare notes and outlines but do
not memorize exact words.
Impromptu
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You have little or no time to prepare and
present a speech.
Parts of the Communication
Cycle/Model
SENDER
MESSAGE
FEEDBACK
RECEIVER
Interview
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A formal kind of interpersonal
communication often involving
two persons with a particular or
definite goal in mind.
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Meeting and talking with the
manager at Wal-mart for a job.
Types of Gestures
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Emphatic
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Transitional
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Transition from one part to another
part
Descriptive
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Stress or emphasize
Describe things
Locative
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Show direction or location
Speaking Techniques
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Use specific words
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Rhetorical Questions
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Asking a question to have the audience
think about the answer
Repetition
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Mother is more specific than woman
Saying the same idea with the same
words
Restatement
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Stating the same idea with different
words
Communication

The process of sending and
receiving messages to achieve
understanding.