Discussion and Debate Exam
Terms
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- Encoding
- Selection process from sender to reciever
- Decoding
- Filtering process from reciever to sender
- Interference
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Internal: Thinking about something else
External: Distraction with surroundings - Feedback
- Response
- Communication
- The process of recieving messages to achieve understanding.
- Interpersonal communication
- Communicating with 2 or more people
- Intrapersonal communication
- Comunicating within the self
- Verbal Communication
- Use of words
- Nonverbal Communication
- Use of body actions and gestures
- What groups can do for Individuals
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Protect the individual
Allow free reign
Make sacrifices - How to prevent the deterioration of groups
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Understand yourself
Understand groups
Understand principles of communication - Information or opinion Giver
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Gives info and opionions
+ - Information or opinion Seeker
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Seeks info and opinions
+ - Expediter
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Helps stick to the agenda
+ - Analyzer
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Examines reasoning of others
+ - Harmonizer
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Helps keep people in line
+ - Gatekeeper
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Helps facilitate group interaction
+ - Recorder
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Takes notes
+ - Aggressor
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Perons who works for his/her own status by blaming others
- - Joker
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Disrupts
- - Withdrawer
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Refuses to be part of the group
- - Monopolizer
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Talks too much
- - Milquetoast
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Agrees with everything, wishy-washy
- - Leadership Responsibilities
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-Procedural matters
-State topic to be discussed
-Questions to ask
-Use transitions
-Keep discussion organized
-Encourage participation
-Restate contributions
-Bring discussion to a close - Characteristics of a Discussion Question
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Significant
Of interest to the group
Of interest to the audience - Question of fact
- Concerned with establishing the truth of a statement or the reality of info about an issue
- Question of value
- Based on the facts or data and develop a value judgement regarding them
- Question of policy
- Deal with what should be done based on the facts and value judgements
- Committee
- Group organized or appointed to acomplish some given task
- Case Discussion
- Presenting group discussion with description of a situation to examine and then suggest procedures
- Buzz Session
- Breaking large group into subgroups
- Panel discussion
- Members examine some problem or issue under normal discussion give and take
- Forum
- Audience participation in discussion
- Symposium
- Members give prepared speeches on aspects of topic
- Debate
- Provides organized method of illuminating a subject
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Steps in Reflective Thinking:
Definition and Delimination of the Problem - Define Issues and Terms
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Steps in Reflective Thinking:
Analysis of the problem - History, Causes, Status Quo, Current Programs, Criteria for new solutions
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Steps in Reflective Thinking:
Suggestion of Hypotheses or solutions - Explore as many solutions as possible
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Steps in Reflective Thinking:
Reasoned Development of the Hypotheses or solutions - Evaluate solutions to find one to agree upon
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Steps in Reflective Thinking:
Further verification or retesting - How can the final solution best be put into effect?
- Status Quo
- Current problems in topic of discussion
- Consensus
- Everyone agrees
- Majority Vote
- Over 1/2 the members agree
- Compromise
- One gives in to accept part of someone else's suggestion
- Proposition Characteristics
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-Worded as statement
-Worded to permit only a for or against view
-Not slanted toward one side
-Addresses current controversial issue
-Call change from present policy
-Non-judgemental vocablulary - Proposition of Fact
- Objective statement that something exists
- Proposition of Value
- Expresses judgement about qualities of person, place, thing idea or event
- Proposition of Policy
- Statement of a course of action to be considered for adoption
- Affirmative side
- Wants things to stay the way they are
- Negative side
- Wants a change
- Cross-Examination
- When opponent rebuts points made by other speaker
- Constructive Speech
- Speech given presenting his/her arguements
- Rebuttal Speech
- Rebuts points made by the other speaker
- Flow Sheet
- Flows the debate when opponent takes notes during other persons speech