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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. Process of attaching meaning to behavior.






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






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






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






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






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






7. The tendency to form an overall positive impression a person on the basis of the positive characteristics.






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






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






10. Person whose evaluations are especially influential.






11. Any interaction between more than two people.






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






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






14. Messages expressed by nonlinguistic means.






15. Area that serves as an extension of our physical being.






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






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






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






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






20. Image you want to present to the world






21. Provides a better way to check and to share your interpretations. Has three parts.






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






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






24. Describes the abundance of nonverbal cues that add clarity to a verbal message.






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






26. Anything that interferes with the transmission and reception of a message.






27. Arrange it in some meaningful way in order to make sense of the world.






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






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






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






31. 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.






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






33. 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.






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






35. Expresses how you feel about the other person.






36. Ability to construct a variety of different frameworks for viewing an issue.






37. Fourth behavior that arouses defensiveness. 'Indifference' - E.g. 911 telephone dispatchers






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






39. 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.






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






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






42. Distance between communicators can have a powerful effect on how we regard and respond to others. 4 feet to 12 feet.






43. Degrees of self-dsclosure.






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






45. 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






46. Stories we use to describe our personal worlds.






47. Acknowledge the other person's communication - but used to steer the conversation in a new direction. Comes in 2 forms: tangential shift and tangential drift






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






49. Someone who is positive they're right.






50. People we use to evaluate our own characteristics.