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📱Intro to Communication Studies
Key Terms

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

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A

Accommodating style
Active audience
Agenda Setting Theory
Agenda-setting theory
Albert Mehrabian
Algorithmic persuasion
All-channel networks
Anxiety/uncertainty management theory
Appeal to authority
Appeal to emotion
Argument strength
Artificial intelligence
Asynchronous communication
Attack advertising
Attentiveness
Audience adaptation
Audience awareness
Audience feedback
Audience manipulation
Audience segmentation
Autocratic Leadership

C

Carl Rogers
Collectivism vs. Individualism
Collectivist communication
Communication Accommodation Theory
Communication apprehension
Communication channels
Communication climate
Communication Competence
Communication norms
Competing Style
Compromising style
Conflict styles model
Constructive conflict
Content analysis
Contextual Noise
Critical perspective
Cross-cultural communication
Cultivation Theory
Cultural Appropriation
Cultural biases
Cultural competence
Cultural Dimensions Theory
Cultural Display Rules
Cultural filters
Cultural framing
Cultural Hegemony
Cultural hegemony theory
Cultural Intelligence
Cultural miscommunication
Cultural Scripts
Cultural studies perspective
Cultural tailoring
Cyberbullying

D

Delayed Feedback
Demographic analysis
Demographic segmentation
Denotative meaning
Deontological Ethics
Digital streaming
Digital well-being
Disinhibition effect
Downward communication
Dual Concern Model
Dual-process models
Dyadic communication
Dyadic effect
Dysfunctional conflict

E

Edgar Schein
Edward T. Hall
Emotional appeal
Emotional Labor
Empowering language
Encoding-decoding model
Enterprise social networks