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






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






3. Someone who is positive they're right.






4. A mirroring of the judgements of those around him or her.






5. Two-person interacting






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






7. Plays a role in virtually every interpersonal act.






8. How a person's position in a society shapes their view of society in general and of specific individuals.






9. 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.






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






11. Deliberate attempt to hide or misrepresent the truth.






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






13. When communicators aren't prepared to argue but still want to register dissatisfaction.






14. Process of paying close attention to one's own behavior and using these observations to shape the way one behaves.






15. Messages that we perceive as challenging the image we want to project






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






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






18. Physically observable qualities of a thing or situation.






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






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






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






22. Stories we use to describe our personal worlds.






23. Has two or more equally plausible meanings






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






25. Public image; the way we want to appear to others.






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






27. Two messages that seem to deny or contradict each other - one at the verbal level and the other at the nonverbal level.






28. 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.






29. 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.






30. 1. Has the self as subject 2. is intentional 3. is directed at another person 4. is honest 5. is revealing 6. contains information generally available from other sources 7. gains intimate nature from context in which expressed






31. Contrasts with Neutrality. Helps rid communication of the quality of indifference.






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






33. Study of how people communicate through bodily movements.






34. 5th behavior creating a defensive climate. A message that suggests 'I'm better than you.'






35. Making comments totally unrelated to what the other person was just saying.






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






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






38. Distinguishes the study of touching.






39. Study of how the eyes can communicate.






40. Degrees of self-dsclosure.






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






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






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






44. Verbal and nonverbal ways in which we act to maintain our own presenting image and image of others.






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






46. First step to perception; where data we will attend to.






47. Stammering and the use of 'uh' - 'um' and 'er'






48. Image you want to present to the world






49. 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.






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