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📱Intro to Communication Studies
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419 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Intro to Communication Studies exam

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Accommodating style
Active audience
Adapting language style
Agenda Setting Theory
Agenda-setting
Agenda-setting theory
Albert Mehrabian
Algorithmic persuasion
All-channel networks
Amplitude modulation (AM)
Anxiety/uncertainty management theory
Appeal to authority
Appeal to emotion
Arbitration
Argument strength
Artificial intelligence
Asking questions
Assertive communication
Asynchronous communication
Attack advertising
Attentiveness
Audience adaptation
Audience awareness
Audience engagement
Audience engagement strategies
Audience feedback
Audience interaction
Audience manipulation
Audience segmentation
Autocratic Leadership

B

Bill Kovach
Brené Brown

C

C. Richard Hofstetter
Carl Rogers
Change Management
Chronic Anxiety
Clear messaging
Cognitive dissonance theory
Cognitive effort
Collectivism vs. Individualism
Collectivist communication
Communication Accommodation Theory
Communication apprehension
Communication breakdown
Communication channels
Communication climate
Communication Competence
Communication norms
Communication skills
Communication strategies
Communication styles
Competing Style
Compromising style
Conclusion
Confirmation bias
Conflict of interest
Conflict styles model
Connotative Meaning
Consensus building
Consequentialist Approach
Constructive conflict
Constructive Feedback
Content analysis
Content evaluation
Content Organization
Contextual Noise
Critical perspective
Critical Thinking
Cross-cultural communication
Cultivation Theory
Cultural Appropriation
Cultural barriers
Cultural biases
Cultural Blunders
Cultural competence