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Communication Theory
Graduate Course
12 cards·by DrMurray
Communication Apprehension Theory
People’s fear or anxiety related to actual or anticipated communication with others.
Attribution Theory
How a person understands the event and how the event is related to the person’s thinking
process and their behavior.
Cognitive Dissonance
Conflicting attitudes, beliefs or behaviors. This produces a feeling of mental discomfort
leading to an alteration in behaviors
Cultural Identity Theory
The study into how individuals use communicative processes to construct and negotiate their
cultural group identities and relationships.
Expectancy Violation Theory
Explain the unexpected behaviors of human beings while interacting.
Face Negotiation Theory
cultural difference in people influence in managing conflicts difference in handling the
conflicts can be a part of maintains a ‘face’
Intercultural Competence
Range of cognitive, effective, and behavioral skills that lead to effective and appropriate
communication with people of other cultures.
Salience
The perceptual quality by which an observable thing stands out relative to its environment.
Symbolic Interactionism
Humans interact with things based on meanings ascribed to those things the ascribed meaning
of things comes from our interactions with other
Uncertainty Reduction Theory
explores the initial interaction between people that occurs before the actual
communication process.
Theory of Reasoned Action
Beliefs about how other people would like you to behave, including social pressure toward the
behavior.
Problematic-Integration Theory
Addresses the processes and dynamics of how people receive, evaluate, and respond to
information and experiences.