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Interpersonal Communication Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Involves the information being explicitly discussed - E.g. 'Please pass the milk'
Richness (of communication media)
Second-order Realities
Content Dimension
Halo Effect
2. Plays a role in virtually every interpersonal act.
Empathy
Interpretation
Cognitive Conservatism
Impervious Response
3. Study of how the eyes can communicate.
Cognitive Competence
Regulators
Self- monitoring
Oculesics
4. Ability to re-create another person's perspective - to experience the world from his/her point of view -
Impersonal Response
Empathy
Self-concept
Self-fulfilling Prophecy
5. Two-person interacting
Dyad
Evaluation
Qualitative Interpersonal Communication
Oculesics
6. Someone who is positive they're right.
Chronemics
Certainty
Androgynous
Organization
7. Closer range public distance. Beyond 25 feet two-way communication is almost impossible.
Irrelevant Response
Public Distance
Chronemics
Empathy
8. Cues that help control verbal interaction - E.g. Wide array of turn-taking signals in everyday conversation.
Selection
Presenting Self
Second-order Realities
Regulators
9. 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.
Paralanguage
Punctuation
Intimate Distance
Computer-mediated Communication (CMC)
10. Process by which communicators influence each other's perceptions through communication.
Computer-mediated Communication (CMC)
Identity Management
Negotiation
Attribution
11. Reciprocal pattern of climate patterns. Can be positive or negative.
Spiral
Noise
Social Distance
Benevolent Lie
12. Both effective and appropriate; trying to balance the two when communicating.
Oculesics
Dyad
Communication Competence
Presenting Self
13. A mirroring of the judgements of those around him or her.
Personal Space
Chronemics
Reflected Appraisal
Social Comparison
14. Definse-arousing messages in which speakers hide their ulterior motives.
Public Distance
Incongruous Response
Strategy
Relational Dimension (of a message)
15. A way to offer thoughts - feelings - and wants without judging the listener.
Disinhibition
Haptics
Sandwich Method
Description
16. Image you want to present to the world
Feedback
Face
Emblems
Sandwich Method
17. Study of how communication is affected by the use - organization - and perception of space and distance.
Disagreeing Message
Proxemics
Noise
Intimate Distance
18. Messages that convey valuing - E.g. 'you exist' 'you're important'
Impersonal Response
Disfluencies
Face-threatening Acts
Confirming Communication
19. Speaking before you think - blurting out loud - tendency to transmit messages without considering their consequences.
Irrelevant Response
Superiority
Standpoint Theory
Disinhibition
20. 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.
Significant Other
Neutrality
Self-fulfilling Prophecy
Equivocal Language
21. Making comments totally unrelated to what the other person was just saying.
Irrelevant Response
Facework
Face-threatening Acts
Communication Climate
22. 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
Tangential Response
Proxemics
Aggressiveness
Description
23. Messages that we perceive as challenging the image we want to project
Ambiguous Response
Face-threatening Acts
Emblems
Lie
24. Communication strategies people use to influence how others view them.
Empathy
Cognitive Conservatism
Halo Effect
Identity Management
25. Provides another way to interact by electronics - E.g. email - texting - IM - social networking - and blogging
Computer-mediated Communication (CMC)
Organization
Argumentativeness
Stereotyping
26. Person whose evaluations are especially influential.
Significant Other
Haptics
Stereotyping
Description
27. The relatively stable set of perceptions you hold of yourself.
Self-concept
Richness (of communication media)
Facework
Relational Dimension (of a message)
28. 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.
Richness (of communication media)
Relational Dimension (of a message)
Significant Other
Confirmation Bias
29. Personal invisible bubble; our own area. People's personal space vary.
Emblems
Complaining
Relational Dimension (of a message)
Personal Space
30. Tendency to seek information that conforms to an existing self-concept.
Cognitive Conservatism
Equivocal Language
Halo Effect
Neutrality
31. First type of defense-arousing message; judges other person usually in a negative way
Manipulators
Social Penetration Model
Negotiation
Evaluation
32. Process of paying close attention to one's own behavior and using these observations to shape the way one behaves.
Self- monitoring
Chronemics
Organization
Dyad
33. Fails to acknowledge the other person's communicative attempt - verbally or nonverbally - E.g. Failing to return a phone call
Impervious Response
Sandwich Method
Cognitive Competence
Interpretation
34. Public image; the way we want to appear to others.
Empathy
Presenting Self
Defensiveness
Confirming Communication
35. Contrasts with strategy. Being honest with others rather than manipulating them.
Controlling Communication
Spontaneity
Equality
Reference Groups
36. Degrees of self-dsclosure.
Social Penetration Model
Perceived Self
Evaluation
Self- monitoring
37. The tendency to form an overall positive impression a person on the basis of the positive characteristics.
Disconfirming Communication
Ambiguous Response
Halo Effect
Facework
38. Provides a better way to check and to share your interpretations. Has three parts.
Environment (Contexts)
Proxemics
Impervious Response
Perception Checking
39. Verbal or nonverbal; Indicates a response to the previous passage/message.
Narrative
Complaining
Oculesics
Feedback
40. When communicators aren't prepared to argue but still want to register dissatisfaction.
Stereotyping
Attribution
Regulators
Complaining
41. Exaggerated beliefs associated with a categorizing system.
Incongruous Response
Transaction Communication Model
Stereotyping
Sandwich Method
42. Expresses how you feel about the other person.
Nonverbal Communication
Disagreeing Message
Relational Dimension (of a message)
Defensiveness
43. Part of self-concept that involves evaluations of self-worth.
Androgynous
Personal Space
Self-esteem
Argumentativeness
44. Occurs when one person begins to speak before the other is through making a point.
Personal Distance
Dyad
Interrupting Response
Cognitive Conservatism
45. Person you believe yourself to be in moments of honest self-examination.
Perceived Self
Halo Effect
Provisionalism
Argumentativeness
46. Popular approach for offering constructive criticism. To sandwich your issue of concern between two positive comments.
Sandwich Method
Spiral
Proxemics
Tangential Response
47. Any interaction between more than two people.
Communication Climate
Facework
Quantitive Interpersonal Communication
Relational Dimension (of a message)
48. Distinguishes the study of touching.
Haptics
Social Comparison
Argumentativeness
Chronemics
49. Fields of experience that help them make sense of others behavior.
Environment (Contexts)
Spiral
Qualitative Interpersonal Communication
Provisionalism
50. Messages expressed by nonlinguistic means.
Argumentativeness
Empathy
Communication Competence
Nonverbal Communication