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Interpersonal Communication Vocab

Subject : soft-skills
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1. Contains a message with more than one meaning. The words are highly abstract or have meanings private to the speaker alone.






2. Social tone of a relationship; way people feel about each other as they carry out activities






3. People we use to evaluate our own characteristics.






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






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






6. Reciprocal pattern of climate patterns. Can be positive or negative.






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






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






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






10. Distance between communicators can have a powerful effect on how we regard and respond to others. 4 feet to 12 feet.






11. Any interaction between more than two people.






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






13. Communicators focus on finding a solution that satisfies both their own needs and those of the others involved.






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






15. Messages that convey valuing - E.g. 'you exist' 'you're important'






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






17. Ability to construct a variety of different frameworks for viewing an issue.






18. Culturally understood substitutes for verbal expressons - E.g. Nodding head up and down for yes/no






19. Deliberate attempt to hide or misrepresent the truth.






20. Describes the study of how humans use and structure time.






21. Not being malicious; is seen as helpful






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






23. Verbal or nonverbal; Indicates a response to the previous passage/message.






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






25. Masculine and feminine traits.






26. 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.






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






28. Acknowledge the other person's communication - but used to steer the conversation in a new direction. Comes in 2 forms: tangential shift and tangential drift






29. Both effective and appropriate; trying to balance the two when communicating.






30. Study of how the eyes can communicate.






31. Speaking before you think - blurting out loud - tendency to transmit messages without considering their consequences.






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






33. Exaggerated beliefs associated with a categorizing system.






34. Stories we use to describe our personal worlds.






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






36. A way to offer thoughts - feelings - and wants without judging the listener.






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






38. Someone who is positive they're right.






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






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






41. Even though the group may have greater talent in certain areas - they see other human beings as having just as much worth as themselves.






42. 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.






43. Has two or more equally plausible meanings






44. 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.






45. Study of how people communicate through bodily movements.






46. Describes the way a message is spoken; vocal rate - pronunciation - pitch - tone - volume and emphasis.






47. 5th behavior creating a defensive climate. A message that suggests 'I'm better than you.'






48. Speaker conducts a monologue filled with impersonal - intellectualized and generalized statements. Speaker never really interacts with the other on a personal level.






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






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







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