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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. Has two or more equally plausible meanings






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






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






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






5. Process of attaching meaning to behavior.






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






7. 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.






8. Social tone of a relationship; way people feel about each other as they carry out activities






9. Involves the information being explicitly discussed - E.g. 'Please pass the milk'






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






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






12. 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






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






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






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






16. 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






17. Physically observable qualities of a thing or situation.






18. Image you want to present to the world






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






20. Degrees of self-dsclosure.






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






22. Person you believe yourself to be in moments of honest self-examination.






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






24. Process of protecting our presenting self - our face






25. Stories we use to describe our personal worlds.






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






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






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






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. Someone who is positive they're right.






31. Expresses how you feel about the other person.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. Any interaction between more than two people.






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






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






42. People we use to evaluate our own characteristics.






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






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






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






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






47. Masculine and feminine traits.






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






49. Two-person interacting






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