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📱Intro to Communication Studies
Key Terms

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

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A

Ability
Acceptance
Accommodating style
Accommodation
Accountability
Active audience
Active Listening
Adaptability
Adaptation
Adapting language style
Adjourning
Advertising
Agenda Setting Theory
Agenda-setting
Agenda-setting theory
Albert Mehrabian
Algorithmic persuasion
All-channel networks
Amplitude modulation (AM)
Anaphora
Anecdote
Anticipatory anxiety
Antonymy
Anxiety/uncertainty management theory
Appeal to authority
Appeal to emotion
Arbitration
Argument strength
Aristotle
Articulation
Artifacts
Artificial intelligence
Asking questions
Assertive communication
Assertiveness
Asynchronous communication
Attack advertising
Attentiveness
Audience adaptation
Audience analysis
Audience awareness
Audience engagement
Audience engagement strategies
Audience feedback
Audience interaction
Audience manipulation
Audience segmentation
Augmented reality
Authority
Autocratic Leadership
Avoidance
Avoidance style

B

Bandwagon appeals
Bandwagon technique
Belbin's Team Roles
Berlo's SMCR Model
Bias
Bill Kovach
Body
Body Language
Bonding stage
Brainstorming
Brené Brown

C

C. Richard Hofstetter
Cable tv
Call to action
Carl Rogers
Celebrity endorsements
Central route
Central route processing
Centralized networks
Change Management
Channel
Chronemics
Chronic Anxiety