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Interpersonal Communication Vocab
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1. Making comments totally unrelated to what the other person was just saying.
Personal Distance
Facework
Self- monitoring
Irrelevant Response
2. Masculine and feminine traits.
Punctuation
Lie
Cognitive Competence
Androgynous
3. Study of how the eyes can communicate.
Description
Oculesics
Social Comparison
Paralanguage
4. Culturally understood substitutes for verbal expressons - E.g. Nodding head up and down for yes/no
Intimate Distance
Standpoint Theory
Richness (of communication media)
Emblems
5. Contrasts with strategy. Being honest with others rather than manipulating them.
Disagreeing Message
Spontaneity
Transaction Communication Model
Narrative
6. Process by which communicators influence each other's perceptions through communication.
Quantitive Interpersonal Communication
Negotiation
Equivocal Language
Communication Competence
7. Definse-arousing messages in which speakers hide their ulterior motives.
Strategy
Evaluation
Perceived Self
Haptics
8. 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.
Controlling Communication
Superiority
Manipulators
Self- monitoring
9. Messages expressed by nonlinguistic means.
Spontaneity
Equality
Facework
Nonverbal Communication
10. It says 'you're wrong'. Includes recognition and acknowledgment. Can devastate another person.
Sandwich Method
Confirmation Bias
Evaluation
Disagreeing Message
11. 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.
Dyad
Perception Checking
Richness (of communication media)
Self-fulfilling Prophecy
12. Describes the study of how humans use and structure time.
Emblems
Chronemics
Paralanguage
Content Dimension
13. Someone who is positive they're right.
Certainty
Chronemics
Regulators
Halo Effect
14. Even though the group may have greater talent in certain areas - they see other human beings as having just as much worth as themselves.
Regulators
Equality
Social Penetration Model
Negotiation
15. Popular approach for offering constructive criticism. To sandwich your issue of concern between two positive comments.
Disagreeing Message
Identity Management
Chronemics
Sandwich Method
16. Personal invisible bubble; our own area. People's personal space vary.
Disfluencies
Personal Space
Equality
Argumentativeness
17. 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
Perceived Self
Presenting Self
Territory
Tangential Response
18. When communicators aren't prepared to argue but still want to register dissatisfaction.
Self- monitoring
Transaction Communication Model
Complaining
Territory
19. Process of attaching meaning to behavior.
Significant Other
Empathy
Proxemics
Attribution
20. Ability to construct a variety of different frameworks for viewing an issue.
Self-esteem
Cognitive Competence
Provisionalism
Public Distance
21. Contrasts with Neutrality. Helps rid communication of the quality of indifference.
Impervious Response
Empathy
Equality
Halo Effect
22. Evaluating ourselves in terms of how we compare with others.
Benevolent Lie
Proxemics
Social Comparison
Halo Effect
23. Expresses how you feel about the other person.
Relational Dimension (of a message)
Empathy
Spontaneity
Ambiguous Response
24. Distance between communicators can have a powerful effect on how we regard and respond to others. 4 feet to 12 feet.
Social Distance
Territory
Self- monitoring
Strategy
25. Part of self-concept that involves evaluations of self-worth.
Manipulators
Self-esteem
Oculesics
Androgynous
26. Verbal or nonverbal; Indicates a response to the previous passage/message.
Incongruous Response
Feedback
Confirming Communication
Nonverbal Communication
27. Arrange it in some meaningful way in order to make sense of the world.
Reflected Appraisal
Organization
Disinhibition
Facework
28. Both effective and appropriate; trying to balance the two when communicating.
Androgynous
First-order Realities
Interrupting Response
Communication Competence
29. Taking a positive approach to the term; presenting and defending positions on issues while attacking positions taken by others.
Argumentativeness
Superiority
Negotiation
Personal Space
30. How a person's position in a society shapes their view of society in general and of specific individuals.
Standpoint Theory
Reflected Appraisal
Identity Management
Tangential Response
31. 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.
Provisionalism
Impervious Response
Quantitive Interpersonal Communication
Richness (of communication media)
32. Communication strategies people use to influence how others view them.
Identity Management
Sandwich Method
Face-threatening Acts
Content Dimension
33. Has two or more equally plausible meanings
Paralanguage
Equivocal Language
Personal Distance
Selection
34. Verbal and nonverbal ways in which we act to maintain our own presenting image and image of others.
Transaction Communication Model
Proxemics
Facework
Channel
35. Physical traits - personality characteristics - attitudes - aptitudes; image you want to present to the world
Qualitative Interpersonal Communication
Regulators
Presenting Self
Perceived Self
36. The tendency to form an overall positive impression a person on the basis of the positive characteristics.
Halo Effect
Benevolent Lie
Personal Distance
Interrupting Response
37. 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.
Regulators
Empathy
Paralanguage
Confirmation Bias
38. Attempt to depict all the factors that affect human interaction.
Self-esteem
Transaction Communication Model
Face-threatening Acts
Regulators
39. Speaker conducts a monologue filled with impersonal - intellectualized and generalized statements. Speaker never really interacts with the other on a personal level.
Confirming Communication
Sandwich Method
Paralanguage
Impersonal Response
40. Signals a lack of regard - E.g. 'I don't like you' 'I Don't care about you'
Organization
Presenting Self
Disconfirming Communication
Narrative
41. Describes the way a message is spoken; vocal rate - pronunciation - pitch - tone - volume and emphasis.
Regulators
Paralanguage
Communication Competence
Certainty
42. Any interaction between more than two people.
Paralanguage
Quantitive Interpersonal Communication
Face-threatening Acts
Punctuation
43. Reciprocal pattern of climate patterns. Can be positive or negative.
Communication Climate
Self-esteem
Social Penetration Model
Spiral
44. Public image; the way we want to appear to others.
Presenting Self
Confirmation Bias
Quantitive Interpersonal Communication
Negotiation
45. Two-person interacting
Attribution
Dyad
Superiority
Strategy
46. Person whose evaluations are especially influential.
Equivocal Language
Chronemics
Face
Significant Other
47. Stories we use to describe our personal worlds.
Narrative
Self-fulfilling Prophecy
Personal Distance
Aggressiveness
48. 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.
Channel
Reference Groups
Androgynous
Intimate Distance
49. Messages that we perceive as challenging the image we want to project
Computer-mediated Communication (CMC)
Face-threatening Acts
Territory
Facework
50. Distinguishes the study of touching.
Haptics
Evaluation
Richness (of communication media)
Face
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