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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Exaggerated beliefs associated with a categorizing system.






2. Deliberate attempt to hide or misrepresent the truth.






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






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






5. Any interaction between more than two people.






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






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






8. Process of attaching meaning to behavior.






9. It says 'you're wrong'. Includes recognition and acknowledgment. Can devastate another person.






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






11. Attempt to depict all the factors that affect human interaction.






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






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






14. Tendency to seek information that conforms to an existing self-concept.






15. Someone who is positive they're right.






16. Person whose evaluations are especially influential.






17. Degrees of self-dsclosure.






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






19. Fails to acknowledge the other person's communicative attempt - verbally or nonverbally - E.g. Failing to return a phone call






20. Process of protecting our presenting self - our face






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






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






23. 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






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






25. 5th behavior creating a defensive climate. A message that suggests 'I'm better than you.'






26. Expresses how you feel about the other person.






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






28. Image you want to present to the world






29. The relatively stable set of perceptions you hold of yourself.






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






31. Popular approach for offering constructive criticism. To sandwich your issue of concern between two positive comments.






32. Two-person interacting






33. First type of defense-arousing message; judges other person usually in a negative way






34. Contrasts with strategy. Being honest with others rather than manipulating them.






35. Signals a lack of regard - E.g. 'I don't like you' 'I Don't care about you'






36. Evaluating ourselves in terms of how we compare with others.






37. Plays a role in virtually every interpersonal act.






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






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






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






41. 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.






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






43. Ability to re-create another person's perspective - to experience the world from his/her point of view -






44. 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.






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






46. Study of how people communicate through bodily movements.






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






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






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






50. Messages expressed by nonlinguistic means.