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






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






3. Someone who is positive they're right.






4. 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.






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






6. Image you want to present to the world






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. Closer range public distance. Beyond 25 feet two-way communication is almost impossible.






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






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






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






17. Process of attaching meaning to behavior.






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






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






21. Cues that help control verbal interaction - E.g. Wide array of turn-taking signals in everyday conversation.






22. People we use to evaluate our own characteristics.






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






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






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






26. 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.






27. Messages expressed by nonlinguistic means.






28. Stories we use to describe our personal worlds.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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






41. Has two or more equally plausible meanings






42. Verbal or nonverbal; Indicates a response to the previous passage/message.






43. Deliberate attempt to hide or misrepresent the truth.






44. Personal invisible bubble; our own area. People's personal space vary.






45. 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






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






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






48. Degrees of self-dsclosure.






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






50. Plays a role in virtually every interpersonal act.