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Interpersonal Communication Vocab
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1. Closer phase is the distance at which most couples stand in public. Keeping someone at 'arms-length' 18 inches to 4 feet.
Transaction Communication Model
Narrative
Personal Distance
Significant Other
2. A group of ambiguous gestures; fidgeting - movements in which one part of the body grooms - messages - rubs - hold - pinches - picks or otherwise manipulates another part.
Problem Orientation
Significant Other
Haptics
Manipulators
3. When people treat one another as unique individuals - regardless of the context in which the interaction occurs or the number of people involved.
Proxemics
Perception Checking
Androgynous
Qualitative Interpersonal Communication
4. People may have strong opinions but are willing to acknowledge that they don't have a corner on the truth and will change their stand if they are wrong.
Confirming Communication
Provisionalism
Intimate Distance
Territory
5. Has two or more equally plausible meanings
Feedback
Perception Checking
Emblems
Equivocal Language
6. Involves the information being explicitly discussed - E.g. 'Please pass the milk'
Stereotyping
Content Dimension
Intimate Distance
Presenting Self
7. Masculine and feminine traits.
Androgynous
Proxemics
Description
Communication Climate
8. Most destructive way to disagree with another person. Tendency to 'attack the self-concepts of other people in order to inflict psychological pain.' Demeans the worth of others - E.g. Name calling - put downs - sarcasm
Aggressiveness
Face
Self- monitoring
Self-fulfilling Prophecy
9. Speaking before you think - blurting out loud - tendency to transmit messages without considering their consequences.
Spontaneity
Nonverbal Communication
Standpoint Theory
Disinhibition
10. Any interaction between more than two people.
Self-serving Bias
Perceived Self
Standpoint Theory
Quantitive Interpersonal Communication
11. Ability to construct a variety of different frameworks for viewing an issue.
Perceived Self
Cognitive Competence
Confirmation Bias
Presenting Self
12. Verbal or nonverbal; Indicates a response to the previous passage/message.
Perceived Self
Territory
First-order Realities
Feedback
13. Physical traits - personality characteristics - attitudes - aptitudes; image you want to present to the world
Personal Distance
Ambiguous Response
Presenting Self
Incongruous Response
14. Public image; the way we want to appear to others.
Impersonal Response
Lie
Presenting Self
Complaining
15. Process of protecting our presenting self - our face
Social Penetration Model
Defensiveness
Ambiguous Response
Equality
16. Culturally understood substitutes for verbal expressons - E.g. Nodding head up and down for yes/no
Identity Management
Noise
Description
Emblems
17. Fourth behavior that arouses defensiveness. 'Indifference' - E.g. 911 telephone dispatchers
Neutrality
Presenting Self
Superiority
Organization
18. Social tone of a relationship; way people feel about each other as they carry out activities
Haptics
Selection
Communication Climate
Complaining
19. Closer range public distance. Beyond 25 feet two-way communication is almost impossible.
Public Distance
Halo Effect
Face
Self-Disclosure
20. When communicators aren't prepared to argue but still want to register dissatisfaction.
Complaining
Communication Climate
Quantitive Interpersonal Communication
Attribution
21. Contains a message with more than one meaning. The words are highly abstract or have meanings private to the speaker alone.
Kinesics
Ambiguous Response
Problem Orientation
Evaluation
22. Area that serves as an extension of our physical being.
Argumentativeness
Equivocal Language
Social Comparison
Territory
23. Occurs when one person begins to speak before the other is through making a point.
Interrupting Response
Reference Groups
Self-Disclosure
Controlling Communication
24. Both effective and appropriate; trying to balance the two when communicating.
Irrelevant Response
Emblems
Communication Competence
Haptics
25. Distance between communicators can have a powerful effect on how we regard and respond to others. 4 feet to 12 feet.
Interrupting Response
Social Distance
Selection
Disfluencies
26. Communication strategies people use to influence how others view them.
Cognitive Conservatism
Environment (Contexts)
Identity Management
Significant Other
27. Two-person interacting
Dyad
Stereotyping
Cognitive Competence
Empathy
28. Describes the way a message is spoken; vocal rate - pronunciation - pitch - tone - volume and emphasis.
Paralanguage
Androgynous
Relational Dimension (of a message)
Self-esteem
29. Degrees of self-dsclosure.
Social Comparison
Social Penetration Model
Personal Space
Kinesics
30. Distinguishes the study of touching.
Regulators
Punctuation
Haptics
Standpoint Theory
31. 5th behavior creating a defensive climate. A message that suggests 'I'm better than you.'
Superiority
Sandwich Method
Public Distance
Strategy
32. The relatively stable set of perceptions you hold of yourself.
Confirming Communication
Interpretation
Social Comparison
Self-concept
33. When a person's expectations of an even and her or his subsequent behavior based on those expectations - make the outcome more likely to occur.
Presenting Self
Defensiveness
Self-fulfilling Prophecy
Perception Checking
34. Once we form a first impression-whether it's positive or negative- we tend to seek out and organize our impressions to support that opinion.
Ambiguous Response
Confirmation Bias
Disconfirming Communication
Equality
35. Verbal and nonverbal ways in which we act to maintain our own presenting image and image of others.
Stereotyping
Qualitative Interpersonal Communication
Public Distance
Facework
36. Stories we use to describe our personal worlds.
Halo Effect
Narrative
Negotiation
Social Comparison
37. Process by which communicators influence each other's perceptions through communication.
Communication Competence
Negotiation
Standpoint Theory
Punctuation
38. Messages that we perceive as challenging the image we want to project
Social Distance
Disagreeing Message
Certainty
Face-threatening Acts
39. Study of how the eyes can communicate.
Oculesics
Androgynous
Second-order Realities
Defensiveness
40. Image you want to present to the world
Face
First-order Realities
Social Comparison
Emblems
41. Cues that help control verbal interaction - E.g. Wide array of turn-taking signals in everyday conversation.
Organization
Public Distance
Regulators
Computer-mediated Communication (CMC)
42. Definse-arousing messages in which speakers hide their ulterior motives.
Attribution
Nonverbal Communication
Strategy
Impersonal Response
43. Person whose evaluations are especially influential.
Androgynous
Significant Other
Self-fulfilling Prophecy
Problem Orientation
44. It says 'you're wrong'. Includes recognition and acknowledgment. Can devastate another person.
Benevolent Lie
Significant Other
Disagreeing Message
Face-threatening Acts
45. Tendency to seek information that conforms to an existing self-concept.
Cognitive Competence
Strategy
Certainty
Cognitive Conservatism
46. Expresses how you feel about the other person.
Quantitive Interpersonal Communication
Personal Space
Relational Dimension (of a message)
Social Comparison
47. Describes the study of how humans use and structure time.
Identity Management
Face
Organization
Chronemics
48. Used to describe the medium through which messages are exchanged - E.g. face to face - phones - email - instant messages
Territory
Presenting Self
Self-Disclosure
Channel
49. Exaggerated beliefs associated with a categorizing system.
Standpoint Theory
Presenting Self
Stereotyping
Chronemics
50. Part of self-concept that involves evaluations of self-worth.
Feedback
Strategy
Complaining
Self-esteem