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Interpersonal Communication Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Expresses how you feel about the other person.
Qualitative Interpersonal Communication
Chronemics
Relational Dimension (of a message)
Superiority
2. Area that serves as an extension of our physical being.
Certainty
Dyad
Social Distance
Territory
3. 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.
Description
Provisionalism
Stereotyping
Punctuation
4. Any interaction between more than two people.
Noise
Channel
Social Comparison
Quantitive Interpersonal Communication
5. When people treat one another as unique individuals - regardless of the context in which the interaction occurs or the number of people involved.
Significant Other
Qualitative Interpersonal Communication
Defensiveness
Territory
6. Even though the group may have greater talent in certain areas - they see other human beings as having just as much worth as themselves.
Emblems
Reflected Appraisal
Equality
Self-fulfilling Prophecy
7. Anything that interferes with the transmission and reception of a message.
Presenting Self
Provisionalism
Problem Orientation
Noise
8. Messages expressed by nonlinguistic means.
Self-fulfilling Prophecy
Nonverbal Communication
Spontaneity
Public Distance
9. Stories we use to describe our personal worlds.
Emblems
Oculesics
Self-Disclosure
Narrative
10. Stammering and the use of 'uh' - 'um' and 'er'
Social Distance
Disfluencies
Organization
Chronemics
11. 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.
Self-fulfilling Prophecy
Organization
Proxemics
Emblems
12. Closer range public distance. Beyond 25 feet two-way communication is almost impossible.
Interrupting Response
Self-Disclosure
Superiority
Public Distance
13. Provides another way to interact by electronics - E.g. email - texting - IM - social networking - and blogging
Tangential Response
Public Distance
Computer-mediated Communication (CMC)
Territory
14. Physically observable qualities of a thing or situation.
Negotiation
First-order Realities
Self-fulfilling Prophecy
Personal Distance
15. Study of how the eyes can communicate.
Problem Orientation
Spontaneity
Oculesics
Irrelevant Response
16. Person you believe yourself to be in moments of honest self-examination.
Halo Effect
Dyad
Perceived Self
Punctuation
17. Verbal and nonverbal ways in which we act to maintain our own presenting image and image of others.
Self-concept
Facework
Significant Other
Identity Management
18. First type of defense-arousing message; judges other person usually in a negative way
Provisionalism
Intimate Distance
Reflected Appraisal
Evaluation
19. Social tone of a relationship; way people feel about each other as they carry out activities
Cognitive Competence
Problem Orientation
Richness (of communication media)
Communication Climate
20. Used to describe the medium through which messages are exchanged - E.g. face to face - phones - email - instant messages
Argumentativeness
Impervious Response
Halo Effect
Channel
21. Process by which communicators influence each other's perceptions through communication.
Negotiation
Disinhibition
Equality
Evaluation
22. Public image; the way we want to appear to others.
Confirmation Bias
Presenting Self
Narrative
Sandwich Method
23. 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.
Confirmation Bias
Spiral
Presenting Self
Transaction Communication Model
24. Used with people who are emotionally close to us - and then mostly in private situation. Letting someone this close is a sign of trust. 18 inches.
Defensiveness
Communication Competence
Evaluation
Intimate Distance
25. Fourth behavior that arouses defensiveness. 'Indifference' - E.g. 911 telephone dispatchers
Spontaneity
Channel
Punctuation
Neutrality
26. Ability to construct a variety of different frameworks for viewing an issue.
Punctuation
Noise
Personal Space
Cognitive Competence
27. Describes the way a message is spoken; vocal rate - pronunciation - pitch - tone - volume and emphasis.
Personal Distance
Interpretation
Paralanguage
Social Penetration Model
28. Arrange it in some meaningful way in order to make sense of the world.
Disconfirming Communication
Reference Groups
Impervious Response
Organization
29. Image you want to present to the world
Halo Effect
Face
Strategy
Dyad
30. Process of protecting our presenting self - our face
Evaluation
Defensiveness
Self-Disclosure
Reference Groups
31. Contains a message with more than one meaning. The words are highly abstract or have meanings private to the speaker alone.
Impersonal Response
Punctuation
Ambiguous Response
Social Penetration Model
32. When a sender seems to be imposing a solution on the receiver with little regard for the receiver's needs or interests.
Cognitive Conservatism
Controlling Communication
Dyad
Disagreeing Message
33. Tendency to seek information that conforms to an existing self-concept.
Problem Orientation
Cognitive Conservatism
Standpoint Theory
Self- monitoring
34. Definse-arousing messages in which speakers hide their ulterior motives.
Defensiveness
Strategy
Cognitive Conservatism
Noise
35. Study of how people communicate through bodily movements.
Interrupting Response
Kinesics
Attribution
Proxemics
36. 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.
Presenting Self
Intimate Distance
Manipulators
Defensiveness
37. Evaluating ourselves in terms of how we compare with others.
Perceived Self
Social Comparison
Confirmation Bias
Ambiguous Response
38. Physical traits - personality characteristics - attitudes - aptitudes; image you want to present to the world
Presenting Self
Disfluencies
Nonverbal Communication
Reference Groups
39. Masculine and feminine traits.
Attribution
Strategy
Androgynous
Confirming Communication
40. Messages that convey valuing - E.g. 'you exist' 'you're important'
Presenting Self
Confirming Communication
Androgynous
Strategy
41. Reciprocal pattern of climate patterns. Can be positive or negative.
Face
Argumentativeness
Channel
Spiral
42. Signals a lack of regard - E.g. 'I don't like you' 'I Don't care about you'
Richness (of communication media)
Problem Orientation
Disconfirming Communication
Disagreeing Message
43. Cues that help control verbal interaction - E.g. Wide array of turn-taking signals in everyday conversation.
Interpretation
Regulators
Communication Competence
Irrelevant Response
44. Closer phase is the distance at which most couples stand in public. Keeping someone at 'arms-length' 18 inches to 4 feet.
Lie
Spontaneity
Self-concept
Personal Distance
45. Someone who is positive they're right.
Disconfirming Communication
Cognitive Conservatism
Public Distance
Certainty
46. First step to perception; where data we will attend to.
Selection
Disconfirming Communication
Face
Equality
47. Verbal or nonverbal; Indicates a response to the previous passage/message.
Incongruous Response
Nonverbal Communication
Feedback
Environment (Contexts)
48. Person whose evaluations are especially influential.
Second-order Realities
Significant Other
Oculesics
Strategy
49. A way to offer thoughts - feelings - and wants without judging the listener.
Sandwich Method
Description
Controlling Communication
Noise
50. Degrees of self-dsclosure.
Reference Groups
Neutrality
Aggressiveness
Social Penetration Model