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Interpersonal Communication Vocab

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Verbal or nonverbal; Indicates a response to the previous passage/message.






2. Fields of experience that help them make sense of others behavior.






3. Provides a better way to check and to share your interpretations. Has three parts.






4. Provides another way to interact by electronics - E.g. email - texting - IM - social networking - and blogging






5. Public image; the way we want to appear to others.






6. Process by which communicators influence each other's perceptions through communication.






7. Person you believe yourself to be in moments of honest self-examination.






8. When we judge ourselves in the most generous terms possible.






9. Degrees of self-dsclosure.






10. Used to describe the medium through which messages are exchanged - E.g. face to face - phones - email - instant messages






11. Closer phase is the distance at which most couples stand in public. Keeping someone at 'arms-length' 18 inches to 4 feet.






12. Contrasts with Neutrality. Helps rid communication of the quality of indifference.






13. People we use to evaluate our own characteristics.






14. How a person's position in a society shapes their view of society in general and of specific individuals.






15. Involves the information being explicitly discussed - E.g. 'Please pass the milk'






16. Physically observable qualities of a thing or situation.






17. Cues that help control verbal interaction - E.g. Wide array of turn-taking signals in everyday conversation.






18. First step to perception; where data we will attend to.






19. Study of how people communicate through bodily movements.






20. Expresses how you feel about the other person.






21. A mirroring of the judgements of those around him or her.






22. 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.






23. Describes the abundance of nonverbal cues that add clarity to a verbal message.






24. Personal invisible bubble; our own area. People's personal space vary.






25. Fourth behavior that arouses defensiveness. 'Indifference' - E.g. 911 telephone dispatchers






26. Physical traits - personality characteristics - attitudes - aptitudes; image you want to present to the world






27. Masculine and feminine traits.






28. The tendency to form an overall positive impression a person on the basis of the positive characteristics.






29. Occurs when one person begins to speak before the other is through making a point.






30. 1. Has the self as subject 2. is intentional 3. is directed at another person 4. is honest 5. is revealing 6. contains information generally available from other sources 7. gains intimate nature from context in which expressed






31. Messages that we perceive as challenging the image we want to project






32. Arrange it in some meaningful way in order to make sense of the world.






33. Determination of causes and effects in a series of interactions.






34. Communication strategies people use to influence how others view them.






35. Distinguishes the study of touching.






36. Contains a message with more than one meaning. The words are highly abstract or have meanings private to the speaker alone.






37. Closer range public distance. Beyond 25 feet two-way communication is almost impossible.






38. 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.






39. Verbal and nonverbal ways in which we act to maintain our own presenting image and image of others.






40. Making comments totally unrelated to what the other person was just saying.






41. Taking a positive approach to the term; presenting and defending positions on issues while attacking positions taken by others.






42. Part of self-concept that involves evaluations of self-worth.






43. Study of how communication is affected by the use - organization - and perception of space and distance.






44. Definse-arousing messages in which speakers hide their ulterior motives.






45. When a sender seems to be imposing a solution on the receiver with little regard for the receiver's needs or interests.






46. When people treat one another as unique individuals - regardless of the context in which the interaction occurs or the number of people involved.






47. Process of protecting our presenting self - our face






48. Messages expressed by nonlinguistic means.






49. Deliberate attempt to hide or misrepresent the truth.






50. Involve our attaching meaning to first-order things or situations.