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Interpersonal Communication Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Reciprocal pattern of climate patterns. Can be positive or negative.
Problem Orientation
Spiral
Perceived Self
Negotiation
2. A mirroring of the judgements of those around him or her.
Ambiguous Response
Provisionalism
Reflected Appraisal
Regulators
3. Plays a role in virtually every interpersonal act.
Irrelevant Response
Interpretation
Perception Checking
Reflected Appraisal
4. Two messages that seem to deny or contradict each other - one at the verbal level and the other at the nonverbal level.
Superiority
Tangential Response
Incongruous Response
Disconfirming Communication
5. Exaggerated beliefs associated with a categorizing system.
Stereotyping
Disagreeing Message
Self-esteem
Social Distance
6. Closer range public distance. Beyond 25 feet two-way communication is almost impossible.
Provisionalism
Benevolent Lie
Self- monitoring
Public Distance
7. Study of how communication is affected by the use - organization - and perception of space and distance.
Oculesics
Proxemics
Richness (of communication media)
Standpoint Theory
8. Messages that we perceive as challenging the image we want to project
Noise
Face-threatening Acts
Impervious Response
Negotiation
9. The tendency to form an overall positive impression a person on the basis of the positive characteristics.
Halo Effect
Nonverbal Communication
Lie
Chronemics
10. Occurs when one person begins to speak before the other is through making a point.
Ambiguous Response
Presenting Self
Interrupting Response
Selection
11. Image you want to present to the world
Impersonal Response
Territory
Face
Feedback
12. Contrasts with strategy. Being honest with others rather than manipulating them.
Negotiation
Spontaneity
Neutrality
Communication Climate
13. Closer phase is the distance at which most couples stand in public. Keeping someone at 'arms-length' 18 inches to 4 feet.
Self-concept
Interrupting Response
Proxemics
Personal Distance
14. Popular approach for offering constructive criticism. To sandwich your issue of concern between two positive comments.
Complaining
Cognitive Conservatism
Reference Groups
Sandwich Method
15. Stories we use to describe our personal worlds.
Manipulators
Self-serving Bias
Narrative
Reference Groups
16. When people treat one another as unique individuals - regardless of the context in which the interaction occurs or the number of people involved.
Social Penetration Model
Qualitative Interpersonal Communication
Disinhibition
Dyad
17. It says 'you're wrong'. Includes recognition and acknowledgment. Can devastate another person.
Disagreeing Message
Empathy
Significant Other
Description
18. When we judge ourselves in the most generous terms possible.
Organization
Self-serving Bias
Neutrality
Environment (Contexts)
19. 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
Empathy
Aggressiveness
Evaluation
Strategy
20. Making comments totally unrelated to what the other person was just saying.
Irrelevant Response
Significant Other
Content Dimension
Reference Groups
21. Even though the group may have greater talent in certain areas - they see other human beings as having just as much worth as themselves.
Provisionalism
Benevolent Lie
Communication Climate
Equality
22. 5th behavior creating a defensive climate. A message that suggests 'I'm better than you.'
Attribution
Superiority
Face
Empathy
23. Taking a positive approach to the term; presenting and defending positions on issues while attacking positions taken by others.
Strategy
Punctuation
Argumentativeness
Provisionalism
24. Tendency to seek information that conforms to an existing self-concept.
Narrative
Equivocal Language
Cognitive Conservatism
Interrupting Response
25. Degrees of self-dsclosure.
Communication Competence
Social Penetration Model
Perception Checking
Superiority
26. The relatively stable set of perceptions you hold of yourself.
Impersonal Response
Self-concept
Cognitive Conservatism
Nonverbal Communication
27. Messages expressed by nonlinguistic means.
Identity Management
Disconfirming Communication
Nonverbal Communication
Incongruous Response
28. Ability to construct a variety of different frameworks for viewing an issue.
Equality
Interrupting Response
Cognitive Competence
Certainty
29. Part of self-concept that involves evaluations of self-worth.
Paralanguage
Self-esteem
Presenting Self
Aggressiveness
30. Public image; the way we want to appear to others.
Equality
Presenting Self
Stereotyping
Identity Management
31. Speaking before you think - blurting out loud - tendency to transmit messages without considering their consequences.
Relational Dimension (of a message)
Disinhibition
Incongruous Response
Controlling Communication
32. Has two or more equally plausible meanings
Equivocal Language
Organization
Irrelevant Response
Face-threatening Acts
33. Evaluating ourselves in terms of how we compare with others.
Benevolent Lie
Self-esteem
Social Comparison
Ambiguous Response
34. 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.
Provisionalism
Presenting Self
Social Comparison
Cognitive Competence
35. 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
Certainty
Neutrality
Disconfirming Communication
36. Two-person interacting
Confirmation Bias
Self-fulfilling Prophecy
Dyad
Identity Management
37. Involve our attaching meaning to first-order things or situations.
Second-order Realities
Public Distance
Empathy
Intimate Distance
38. Signals a lack of regard - E.g. 'I don't like you' 'I Don't care about you'
Tangential Response
Attribution
Disconfirming Communication
Cognitive Competence
39. Person you believe yourself to be in moments of honest self-examination.
Regulators
Quantitive Interpersonal Communication
Equality
Perceived Self
40. Any interaction between more than two people.
Personal Space
Provisionalism
Quantitive Interpersonal Communication
Interrupting Response
41. Ability to re-create another person's perspective - to experience the world from his/her point of view -
Disconfirming Communication
Empathy
Evaluation
Personal Distance
42. Expresses how you feel about the other person.
Relational Dimension (of a message)
Social Comparison
Self-esteem
Content Dimension
43. Stammering and the use of 'uh' - 'um' and 'er'
Disfluencies
Lie
Tangential Response
Strategy
44. Provides another way to interact by electronics - E.g. email - texting - IM - social networking - and blogging
Stereotyping
Self-Disclosure
Impersonal Response
Computer-mediated Communication (CMC)
45. Process of protecting our presenting self - our face
Defensiveness
Social Penetration Model
Standpoint Theory
Self-fulfilling Prophecy
46. Process by which communicators influence each other's perceptions through communication.
Negotiation
Complaining
Stereotyping
Self-serving Bias
47. Verbal or nonverbal; Indicates a response to the previous passage/message.
Certainty
Provisionalism
Punctuation
Feedback
48. Both effective and appropriate; trying to balance the two when communicating.
Stereotyping
Social Penetration Model
Richness (of communication media)
Communication Competence
49. Personal invisible bubble; our own area. People's personal space vary.
Selection
Cognitive Conservatism
Personal Space
Self-esteem
50. How a person's position in a society shapes their view of society in general and of specific individuals.
Disagreeing Message
Standpoint Theory
Environment (Contexts)
Selection