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| Groups that engage in specific activities such as chess teams and sports teams |
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| A transactional process of sharing meaning with others. |
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| Content dimension (of messages) |
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| The information transmitted |
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| An environment in which meaning emerges, consisting of who communicates to whom, why the communicator does it, and where, when, and how it is done. |
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| How well we have progress toward the achievement of goals. |
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| Typed icons or combinations of punct. marks meant to indicated emotional tone; a substitute for nonverbal communication in writter text messages. |
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| The hostility people feel from having to work in groups. |
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| Tendency to overestimate our prior knowledge once we have been told the correct answers. |
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| Learning the rules for and understanding what is required to appropriate and effective in one's communication. |
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| A structured system of symbols for sharing meaning. |
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| Grps that enhance members' knowledge, such as college seminar grps and class study grps. |
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| Grps that provide a sense of community, shch as homeowners associations and PTA's. |
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| Grps that provide a sense of belonging and affection such as family and friends. |
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| Grps that work of specific tasks such as self-managing work teams and task forces. |
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| Grps that provide social connections and whose goal is to help others. |
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| Grps that provide social support to address life problems. |
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| Positive verbal and negative nonverbal communication, or vice versa; contradictory verbal and nonverbal commuication. |
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| Sharing meaning with others without using words. |
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| Relationship dimension (of messages) |
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| How messages define or redefine the relationship between group members. |
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| Successful performance of a communication behavior and the ability to repeat sch a behavior. |
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| Representations of referents (whatever the symbol refers to). |
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| A process in which each person communicating is both a sender and a receiver simultaneously, not merely a sender or receiver, and all parties influence each other. |
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