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Interpersonal Communication Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Process of attaching meaning to behavior.
Dyad
Feedback
Attribution
Oculesics
2. A mirroring of the judgements of those around him or her.
Relational Dimension (of a message)
Disagreeing Message
Paralanguage
Reflected Appraisal
3. Used to describe the medium through which messages are exchanged - E.g. face to face - phones - email - instant messages
Halo Effect
Richness (of communication media)
Channel
Lie
4. Deliberate attempt to hide or misrepresent the truth.
Public Distance
Face
Computer-mediated Communication (CMC)
Lie
5. People we use to evaluate our own characteristics.
Reference Groups
Tangential Response
Intimate Distance
Emblems
6. Fails to acknowledge the other person's communicative attempt - verbally or nonverbally - E.g. Failing to return a phone call
Impervious Response
Qualitative Interpersonal Communication
Perception Checking
Disconfirming Communication
7. Arrange it in some meaningful way in order to make sense of the world.
Quantitive Interpersonal Communication
Organization
Negotiation
Facework
8. Definse-arousing messages in which speakers hide their ulterior motives.
Social Comparison
Paralanguage
Cognitive Competence
Strategy
9. Plays a role in virtually every interpersonal act.
Interpretation
Equality
Personal Space
Social Penetration Model
10. Area that serves as an extension of our physical being.
Chronemics
Description
Territory
Noise
11. Closer range public distance. Beyond 25 feet two-way communication is almost impossible.
Content Dimension
Public Distance
Superiority
Environment (Contexts)
12. The tendency to form an overall positive impression a person on the basis of the positive characteristics.
Spontaneity
Confirmation Bias
Halo Effect
Description
13. Speaker conducts a monologue filled with impersonal - intellectualized and generalized statements. Speaker never really interacts with the other on a personal level.
Impersonal Response
Face
Certainty
Self-concept
14. Social tone of a relationship; way people feel about each other as they carry out activities
Public Distance
Strategy
Communication Climate
Description
15. Both effective and appropriate; trying to balance the two when communicating.
Impervious Response
Reference Groups
Presenting Self
Communication Competence
16. Involve our attaching meaning to first-order things or situations.
Relational Dimension (of a message)
Presenting Self
Quantitive Interpersonal Communication
Second-order Realities
17. Distance between communicators can have a powerful effect on how we regard and respond to others. 4 feet to 12 feet.
Computer-mediated Communication (CMC)
Confirming Communication
Perception Checking
Social Distance
18. Personal invisible bubble; our own area. People's personal space vary.
Feedback
Irrelevant Response
Punctuation
Personal Space
19. A way to offer thoughts - feelings - and wants without judging the listener.
Transaction Communication Model
Self-esteem
Description
Kinesics
20. Masculine and feminine traits.
Nonverbal Communication
Self-serving Bias
Attribution
Androgynous
21. Messages that we perceive as challenging the image we want to project
Interpretation
Problem Orientation
Face-threatening Acts
Personal Space
22. Describes the study of how humans use and structure time.
Chronemics
Social Distance
Facework
Personal Space
23. Fields of experience that help them make sense of others behavior.
Territory
Communication Competence
Environment (Contexts)
Self-esteem
24. Any interaction between more than two people.
Lie
Self- monitoring
Haptics
Quantitive Interpersonal Communication
25. 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.
Halo Effect
Quantitive Interpersonal Communication
Self- monitoring
Intimate Distance
26. It says 'you're wrong'. Includes recognition and acknowledgment. Can devastate another person.
Spontaneity
Cognitive Competence
Disagreeing Message
Relational Dimension (of a message)
27. Cues that help control verbal interaction - E.g. Wide array of turn-taking signals in everyday conversation.
Feedback
Communication Competence
Ambiguous Response
Regulators
28. Reciprocal pattern of climate patterns. Can be positive or negative.
Face-threatening Acts
Self-fulfilling Prophecy
Spiral
Qualitative Interpersonal Communication
29. Physical traits - personality characteristics - attitudes - aptitudes; image you want to present to the world
Attribution
Presenting Self
Equivocal Language
Personal Space
30. Culturally understood substitutes for verbal expressons - E.g. Nodding head up and down for yes/no
Presenting Self
Transaction Communication Model
Emblems
Significant Other
31. Study of how the eyes can communicate.
Significant Other
Oculesics
Interrupting Response
Self-Disclosure
32. Describes the way a message is spoken; vocal rate - pronunciation - pitch - tone - volume and emphasis.
Selection
Paralanguage
Description
Quantitive Interpersonal Communication
33. Process of paying close attention to one's own behavior and using these observations to shape the way one behaves.
Identity Management
Self- monitoring
Perceived Self
Haptics
34. Contains a message with more than one meaning. The words are highly abstract or have meanings private to the speaker alone.
Interpretation
Selection
Haptics
Ambiguous Response
35. Tendency to seek information that conforms to an existing self-concept.
Facework
Cognitive Conservatism
Environment (Contexts)
Public Distance
36. Not being malicious; is seen as helpful
Benevolent Lie
Perception Checking
Intimate Distance
Spiral
37. Even though the group may have greater talent in certain areas - they see other human beings as having just as much worth as themselves.
Organization
Disfluencies
Qualitative Interpersonal Communication
Equality
38. When we judge ourselves in the most generous terms possible.
Self-concept
Description
Self-serving Bias
Superiority
39. Communicators focus on finding a solution that satisfies both their own needs and those of the others involved.
Interrupting Response
Evaluation
Problem Orientation
First-order Realities
40. Ability to re-create another person's perspective - to experience the world from his/her point of view -
Public Distance
Empathy
Disconfirming Communication
Negotiation
41. Exaggerated beliefs associated with a categorizing system.
Neutrality
Communication Climate
Stereotyping
Selection
42. Occurs when one person begins to speak before the other is through making a point.
Chronemics
Ambiguous Response
Interrupting Response
Manipulators
43. Taking a positive approach to the term; presenting and defending positions on issues while attacking positions taken by others.
Perception Checking
Argumentativeness
Benevolent Lie
Paralanguage
44. Popular approach for offering constructive criticism. To sandwich your issue of concern between two positive comments.
Face-threatening Acts
Sandwich Method
Benevolent Lie
Negotiation
45. Stammering and the use of 'uh' - 'um' and 'er'
Disfluencies
Presenting Self
Complaining
Equivocal Language
46. Messages expressed by nonlinguistic means.
Punctuation
Nonverbal Communication
Aggressiveness
Standpoint Theory
47. Messages that convey valuing - E.g. 'you exist' 'you're important'
Kinesics
Communication Competence
Second-order Realities
Confirming Communication
48. Expresses how you feel about the other person.
Identity Management
Self-esteem
Superiority
Relational Dimension (of a message)
49. 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.
Manipulators
Social Distance
Transaction Communication Model
Interrupting Response
50. Speaking before you think - blurting out loud - tendency to transmit messages without considering their consequences.
Facework
Paralanguage
Disinhibition
Equivocal Language