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Professional Communication Skills 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. Two or more people working together to produce a result they could not have produced on their own






2. The process where you rearticulate - in your words - what you learned from consulting the research of an original author






3. A tension between two opposing but valuable preferences






4. This type of communication apprehension occurs only in particular - and typically stressful - contexts






5. Modifying or changing the structure - design and/or delivery of your speech to your listeners to enhance message clarity - as well as making your examples and illustrations specifically applicable to your audience to help achieve and maintain audienc






6. To determine or fix the value of; to determine the significance - worth - or condition of - usually by careful appraisal and study






7. Being consciously aware of - and paying attention to our communication behavior






8. The general and systematic study of what ought to be the grounds and principles for right and wrong human behavior






9. The organization style used for referencing citations in your actual presentation






10. When a team meaner slacks off because he know the work will get done regardless of his effort






11. Service provider used for sending digital communication; usually associated with emails






12. The interplay between encoding and decoding messages






13. The overall feel of the group - composed of all the group's relationships






14. Our public selves that make up who we want to be seen as






15. The capabilities of the technology used to communicate online






16. The symbolic exchange process whereby individuals form two or more different cultural communities negotiate shared meanings in an interactive situation






17. The way in which people segment a sequence of words or behaviors






18. Process of communicating and interpreting communication—the official communication terms for these processes






19. Areas of the citations- like author - title - journal title - abstract or full text- that are found in various journals






20. Communication is a process - the stimulation of meaning - and both verbal and nonverbal






21. A person who is a compulsive communicator. He or she seemingly cannot 'shut-up'






22. The tendency of a person to avoid social interaction






23. Therapeutic technique that helps alleviate people's fear through directed conversation






24. Lack of reward for engaging in a particular activity. In this case - specifically - children seldom encouraged to - or actively discouraged from - practicing communication skills






25. The anxiety you feel about communicating in most situations. Often called 'trait-like anxiety.'






26. The perspective that ethical action can be discovered by examining the act itself and identifying and acting upon one's obligations and duties






27. The result of an act of encoding






28. A leadership style in which the leader makes decisions by herself






29. The process of stating verbatim - in a presentation - information derived from an author other than oneself






30. What audience members hold to be true or false






31. In postmodern ethics - the obligation to respond to the actions of others






32. The anxiety a person experiences when speaking in public






33. A leadership style in which the leader is hands-off and allows members to make decisions on their own






34. Submitting the same work for more than one class






35. The extent to which the message after transmission is similar to the message originally transmitted






36. A leadership style in which members participate in the decision-making process






37. The act of interpreting a situation and treating the interpretation as real






38. The process whereby one person stimulates meaning in the mind of another through verbal and/or nonverbal means






39. One who is ever-mindful of the audience in making his/her presentation - and who adapts to the changing nature of message delivery given the human facets of audience members






40. To grasp the meaning of; to accept as a fact or truth or regard as plausible without utter certainty






41. Reward for engaging in some activity. Example: when an audience applauds you during a presentation






42. A therapeutic technique that helps anxious people reduce their fears by visualizing positive outcomes of future experiences






43. Falsely representing any material obtained from another source as your own work






44. Failing to properly attribute to a specific piece of information to its source - including faulty paraphrasing






45. When employers use internet searches and social networking sites to find out information or screen potential hires






46. Statistical data about an audience






47. Failure to exercise sufficient care to protect others from the foreseeable risk of harm caused by one's actions






48. Many digital communication technologies - particularly text-based technologies - lack much of the information we have face-to-face interactions






49. Specialized and complicated terminology used by a particular discipline






50. A creative method in which each person comes up with ideas on their own before sharing with the rest of the group