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Interpersonal Communication Vocab
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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.
Proxemics
Interrupting Response
Intimate Distance
Attribution
2. Taking a positive approach to the term; presenting and defending positions on issues while attacking positions taken by others.
Oculesics
Controlling Communication
Argumentativeness
Personal Space
3. Signals a lack of regard - E.g. 'I don't like you' 'I Don't care about you'
Disconfirming Communication
Reference Groups
Presenting Self
Qualitative Interpersonal Communication
4. Fields of experience that help them make sense of others behavior.
Halo Effect
Problem Orientation
Environment (Contexts)
Impervious Response
5. Messages that convey valuing - E.g. 'you exist' 'you're important'
Confirming Communication
Perceived Self
Territory
Narrative
6. The relatively stable set of perceptions you hold of yourself.
Description
Oculesics
Territory
Self-concept
7. The tendency to form an overall positive impression a person on the basis of the positive characteristics.
Halo Effect
Benevolent Lie
Standpoint Theory
Disfluencies
8. Reciprocal pattern of climate patterns. Can be positive or negative.
Evaluation
Irrelevant Response
Spiral
Ambiguous Response
9. Ability to re-create another person's perspective - to experience the world from his/her point of view -
Empathy
Organization
Superiority
Computer-mediated Communication (CMC)
10. Person whose evaluations are especially influential.
Significant Other
Proxemics
Identity Management
Haptics
11. Any interaction between more than two people.
Neutrality
Benevolent Lie
Androgynous
Quantitive Interpersonal Communication
12. When we judge ourselves in the most generous terms possible.
Complaining
Self-serving Bias
Haptics
Oculesics
13. First step to perception; where data we will attend to.
Empathy
Selection
Paralanguage
Self-Disclosure
14. Messages expressed by nonlinguistic means.
Punctuation
Nonverbal Communication
Dyad
Identity Management
15. Area that serves as an extension of our physical being.
Territory
Second-order Realities
Attribution
Organization
16. Involve our attaching meaning to first-order things or situations.
Paralanguage
Territory
Richness (of communication media)
Second-order Realities
17. Process of paying close attention to one's own behavior and using these observations to shape the way one behaves.
Personal Distance
Reflected Appraisal
Chronemics
Self- monitoring
18. Fails to acknowledge the other person's communicative attempt - verbally or nonverbally - E.g. Failing to return a phone call
Punctuation
Communication Competence
Impervious Response
Reference Groups
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.
Equality
Selection
Feedback
Proxemics
20. Image you want to present to the world
Selection
Face
Self-esteem
Communication Climate
21. Provides a better way to check and to share your interpretations. Has three parts.
Equality
Perception Checking
Quantitive Interpersonal Communication
Argumentativeness
22. How a person's position in a society shapes their view of society in general and of specific individuals.
Standpoint Theory
Emblems
Proxemics
Empathy
23. Describes the study of how humans use and structure time.
Transaction Communication Model
Self- monitoring
Chronemics
Controlling Communication
24. Describes the abundance of nonverbal cues that add clarity to a verbal message.
Interpretation
Content Dimension
Richness (of communication media)
Identity Management
25. First type of defense-arousing message; judges other person usually in a negative way
Perceived Self
Tangential Response
Evaluation
Cognitive Conservatism
26. Anything that interferes with the transmission and reception of a message.
Lie
Disfluencies
Self-esteem
Noise
27. Arrange it in some meaningful way in order to make sense of the world.
Selection
Chronemics
Organization
Equivocal Language
28. Speaking before you think - blurting out loud - tendency to transmit messages without considering their consequences.
Disinhibition
Strategy
Interrupting Response
Presenting Self
29. Messages that we perceive as challenging the image we want to project
Face-threatening Acts
Relational Dimension (of a message)
Face
Equality
30. Culturally understood substitutes for verbal expressons - E.g. Nodding head up and down for yes/no
Emblems
Stereotyping
Manipulators
Richness (of communication media)
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.
Haptics
Nonverbal Communication
Stereotyping
Self-fulfilling Prophecy
32. Stammering and the use of 'uh' - 'um' and 'er'
Certainty
Relational Dimension (of a message)
Disfluencies
Empathy
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.
Self-fulfilling Prophecy
Confirmation Bias
Aggressiveness
Presenting Self
34. Making comments totally unrelated to what the other person was just saying.
Self- monitoring
Identity Management
Manipulators
Irrelevant Response
35. Expresses how you feel about the other person.
Attribution
Channel
Relational Dimension (of a message)
Facework
36. Ability to construct a variety of different frameworks for viewing an issue.
Defensiveness
Haptics
Cognitive Competence
Self-serving Bias
37. Fourth behavior that arouses defensiveness. 'Indifference' - E.g. 911 telephone dispatchers
Paralanguage
Social Distance
Interpretation
Neutrality
38. Occurs when one person begins to speak before the other is through making a point.
Kinesics
Interrupting Response
Equivocal Language
Disagreeing Message
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.
Androgynous
Intimate Distance
Kinesics
Selection
40. Verbal and nonverbal ways in which we act to maintain our own presenting image and image of others.
Tangential Response
Face-threatening Acts
Significant Other
Facework
41. Definse-arousing messages in which speakers hide their ulterior motives.
Equivocal Language
First-order Realities
Disconfirming Communication
Strategy
42. Distance between communicators can have a powerful effect on how we regard and respond to others. 4 feet to 12 feet.
Kinesics
Territory
Social Distance
Proxemics
43. Degrees of self-dsclosure.
Halo Effect
First-order Realities
Social Penetration Model
Impervious Response
44. Public image; the way we want to appear to others.
Presenting Self
Personal Distance
Self-serving Bias
Computer-mediated Communication (CMC)
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
Aggressiveness
Richness (of communication media)
Self-concept
Neutrality
46. Stories we use to describe our personal worlds.
Punctuation
Benevolent Lie
Narrative
Attribution
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
Tangential Response
Content Dimension
Neutrality
Public Distance
48. Physical traits - personality characteristics - attitudes - aptitudes; image you want to present to the world
Presenting Self
Provisionalism
First-order Realities
Lie
49. Someone who is positive they're right.
Certainty
Cognitive Conservatism
Relational Dimension (of a message)
Face
50. People we use to evaluate our own characteristics.
Problem Orientation
Tangential Response
Richness (of communication media)
Reference Groups