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Office: HGH 210; phone: (408) 924-5378
Email: wooda@email.sjsu.edu
Web: http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda

Review

These are the major terms and concepts I want you to master for the upcoming examination. Please remember that this review is designed to highlight ideas and concepts that will be found on the test. It is not complete and will be revised until the week before the examination. The review does not include every word that will appear on the exam; it merely serves to guide your study of the texts, notes, web resources, and other materials employed throughout this course.

  • NVC codes
  • NVC extent
  • Kinesics origins
  • Five types of kinesics
  • Research about parental and teacher perceptions of physical appearance
  • Perrett and colleagues' research into feminized male faces
  • Edward Hall's proxemic categories
  • Three components of territorial behavior
  • Nonverbal cues of involvement, affiliation, liking
  • Traits of effective deceivers
  • Strategic and unstrategic leakage
  • Limitations of behavioral and familial deception detection
  • Cultural Time Systems (Technical, Formal, Informal)
  • Definition and purpose of semiotics
  • Constellation
  • Unlimited Semiosis
  • Three types of signs
  • Ideology
  • Liminal space
  • Hot vs. cool media
  • Place-based advertising (PBA)
  • Shift in PBA from public to private to public
  • Four goals of PBA
  • Eliade's notion of the sacred and the profane
  • Hierophanic space
  • Three types of sacred space
  • Three steps of pilgrimage
  • Traditional monuments vs. fluid locales
  • Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase

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