суббота, 22 марта 2014 г.

1.2.6 Effects

Communication always has some effect on one or more persons involved in the communication act. For every communication act, there is some consequence. Generally three types of effects are distinguished.

■ Intellectual (or cognitive) effects are changes in your thinking. When you acquire information from a class lecture, for example, the effect is largely intellectual.

■ Affective effects are changes in your attitudes, values, beliefs, and emotions. Thus, when you become frightened when watching the latest horror movie, its effect is largely affective. Similarly, after a great experience with, say, a person of another culture, your feelings about that culture may change. Again, the effect is largely affective (but perhaps also intellectual).

■ Psychomotor effects are changes in behaviors such as, for example, learning new dance movements, to throw a curve ball, to paint a room, or to use different verbal and nonverbal behaviors.

These effects are not separate; rather, they interact. In many cases, a single message—say, a public speech on homelessness—may inform you (intellectual effect), move you to feel differently (affective effect), and lead you to be more generous when you come upon a homeless person (psychomotor effect).

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