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301--3rd period

It's Friday...what have you learned?

Pop Quiz!

1. Describe, in detail, the S/M/R paradigm.

2. What is the difference between influence and manipulation, in your opinion?

3. Cialdini talks about the 'click, whirr' response. Give me one example that doesn't involve turkey chicks.

4. What do the 95 Theses of the Cluetrain Manifesto pertain to?

5. What do you think will happen to you in this class if you don't become more active communicators?

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1. Describe, in detail, the S/M/R paradigm.
The sender sends the message, through either verbal or nonverbal communication. The message can be anything, though the reciever is always the person who gets the message and interprets it.

2. What is the difference between influence and manipulation, in your opinion?
Influence is a power affecting a person, thing, or course of events, especially one that operates without any direct or apparent effort. Meanwhile, manipulation requires thought and plotting, and the desire for personal gain.

3. Cialdini talks about the 'click, whirr' response. Give me one example that doesn't involve turkey chicks.

Cilandi claims that the "evidence suggests that the ever-accelerating pace and informational crush of modern life will make this form of unthinking compliance more and more prevalent in the future." In this view, Ciladini joins such media theorists as Harold Adams Innis, Paul Virilio and Tony Schwartz in their concern that information-overload is major hazard of contemporary living. In effect, we do not have the time and cognitive capacity to process all the messages we are subjected to, so many of these messages reside unattended in our psyches.

4. What do the 95 Theses of the Cluetrain Manifesto pertain to?
A small community on a popular blogging site. Through the Internet, people are discovering and inventing new ways to share relevant knowledge with blinding speed. As a direct result, markets are getting smarter—and getting smarter faster than most companies. These markets are conversations. Their members communicate in language that is natural, open, honest, direct, funny and often shocking. Whether explaining or complaining, joking or serious, the human voice is unmistakably genuine. It can't be faked.

5. What do you think will happen to you in this class if you don't become more active communicators?

No answer; just a large space that has been painted with White-Out.