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Chapter Six: Selectivity and Attribution
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Selectivity
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Reasons For Selective Exposure
Proximity (we select things close to us)
Utility (we select things we can use)
Involvement (we select things related to topics
we are involved in)
Reinforcement (we select things that reinforce
what we already believe)
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Reasons For Selective Attention
Attention Span Novelty (unusual things attract attention)Concreteness (abstract ideas bores,
concrete ideas attracts attention)Size (bigger draws more attention)Duration (brief messages are missed, long
messages exceed a receiver’s attention span, moderate messages are just right)
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Reasons For Selective Perception
Ambiguity of Messages (message is imprecise and open to misinterpretation)
Lack of Message Redundancy Lack of Receiver Schemata Previous Experiences (life experiences color
our interpretation of a message)Expectancies (anticipation of a future
occurrence) and Biases (unjustified evaluation)
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Reasons For Selective Retention
Lack of HighlightingLack of Redundancy Lack of Schemata Lack of Concrete Application Principles of Primacy and Recency
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Selective Recall
Storage
Retrieval
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Causal Attribution
Causal Attribution: The perception process by which we make sense out of the behavior of others.
Process of Uncertainty Reduction
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Attribution Sources
Internal Factors: When we attribute a person's behavior to internal causes, we are attributing the person's behavior to her or his personality.
External Factors: Attributing people's behavior to external factors explains their behavior as caused by certain situational influences, which may include other people with whom they are associated.
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Attribution ConditionsConsensus: Whether the individual acts in a
way similar to the way other people act in a given situation.
Consistency: Whether the individual behaves the same way in the same situation at different times.
Distinctiveness: Whether the individual behaves the same way in different situations.
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Basic Attribution Error
The basic attribution error occurs when we attribute the causes of our own behavior to external factors and the causes of another person's behavior to internal causes.
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Chapter Seven: Understanding and Influencing
Attitudes and Behaviors
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AttitudesA predisposition to respond to people, ideas, or objects in an evaluative way.
►Predisposition (an attitude is a tendency that we have to do something).
► Evaluate (making judgments of good or bad, desirable or undesirable, likable or unlikable).
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BeliefsOur perception of reality about whether something is true or false.
Belief has to do with our perceptions of reality; whereas, attitude has to do with our evaluation of that reality.
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Values
Right and Wrong and Good and Bad
Highly resistant to change
Our enduring conceptions of the nature of right and wrong, good and bad.
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Dimensions of Attitudes, Beliefs, and Values
DirectionoPositive, Negative, or Neutral
Intensity: The strength of attitudes, beliefs, or values about people, ideas, or objects.
Salience: Perceived importance of an attitude, a belief, or a value to the individual.
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Reinforcement Theory
Reinforcement theory maintains that we respond to various stimuli according to whether these responses lead to rewarding or non-rewarding results for us.
► Reward
► Punishment
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Principle of Consistency
Our perceptions of a source and its message are, to some extent, a function of how consistent we view our attitudes to be with those of the source.
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Balance TheoryA person needs consistency or "balance"
among her or his attitudes, beliefs, and values. When a person becomes aware of
inconsistency or "imbalance" among attitudes, beliefs, and values, this leads to a state of tension.
A person will seek to reduce this tension by altering one or more attitudes, beliefs, or values.
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Willie & Hank
Willie & Hank are discussing the Iraq War.
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Consistency
Inconsistency is present in a communicative situation in which the receiver perceives that the source expresses attitudes different from what he or she expected the source would express.
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►This inconsistency is likely to cause some tension in the receiver, tension that is potential ly detrimental to communication outcomes.
►To alleviate this tension so that outcomes can be better achieved, the receiver must somehow resolve the inconsistency.
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Resolving Inconsistency
Change attitude about the topic.Change attitude about the
source.Leave the field completely.
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Chapter Eight: Power and Influence
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Influence
When a source causes a person to alter his or her thinking or behavior as a result of accidental, expressive, or rhetorical communication.
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3 Types of Influence
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Compliance
Level of influence where a person accepts another’s request because he or she can see either potential reward for complying or potential punishment for not complying.
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Identification
When a person accepts another’s request because he or she identifies with and wants to establish a relationship with that particular person or group.
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Internalization
When a person accepts another’s request because he or she has adopted a way of thinking or behaving because it is intrinsically rewarding and is similar to that person’s value system.
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Power &
Influence
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PowerCapacity of “A” to influence the behavior of “B” so that “B” does things he/she would not otherwise do. (French & Raven)
The degree to which we believe a source can control our thoughts, feelings, or behavior. (Textbook)
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French & Raven’s Five Bases of Power
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Coercive
Form of power where an individual’s expectations that he or she will be punished by another if he or she does not conform to that person’s influence attempt.
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Reward
Form of power where an individual’s perception of another’s ability to mediate rewards for her or him.
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Legitimate
Form of power where an individual’s perceptions of another’s right to influence or prescribed behavior for her or him has been granted by some person or body of people outside the immediate relationship.
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Expert
Form of power where an individual’s perceptions of another’s competence and knowledge in specific areas.
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Referent
Form of power where an individual grants another individual the ability to influence her or him because he or she desires to be like the person who is doing the influencing.
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Power and Influence
Five Basesof Power
Levels of Influence
Compliance Identification Internalization
Coercive X
Reward X
Legitimate X
Referent X X X
Expert X X X
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Power in the Classroom
-Virginia P. Richmond
-Patricia Kearney
-Timothy Plax
-James C. McCroskey
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BATs and BAMs (pp. 167-169)
Behavior Alteration Techniques
(BATs)
Behavior Alteration Messages
(BAMs)
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Beyond French & Raven
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Relational Power
Form of power where influence occurs because of the nature of the relationship and the desire to please another within the relationship.
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Moral Responsibility
Form of power that rests on an individual’s perceptions of responsibility to others – to a relationship, to one’s family, to one’s job, etc….