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






2. Person whose evaluations are especially influential.






3. When communicators aren't prepared to argue but still want to register dissatisfaction.






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






5. Occurs when one person begins to speak before the other is through making a point.






6. Study of how people communicate through bodily movements.






7. Not being malicious; is seen as helpful






8. Stories we use to describe our personal worlds.






9. Area that serves as an extension of our physical being.






10. First type of defense-arousing message; judges other person usually in a negative way






11. Contrasts with Neutrality. Helps rid communication of the quality of indifference.






12. Verbal or nonverbal; Indicates a response to the previous passage/message.






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






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






15. Study of how the eyes can communicate.






16. Provides a better way to check and to share your interpretations. Has three parts.






17. It says 'you're wrong'. Includes recognition and acknowledgment. Can devastate another person.






18. Masculine and feminine traits.






19. When we judge ourselves in the most generous terms possible.






20. Any interaction between more than two people.






21. Cues that help control verbal interaction - E.g. Wide array of turn-taking signals in everyday conversation.






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






23. Speaker conducts a monologue filled with impersonal - intellectualized and generalized statements. Speaker never really interacts with the other on a personal level.






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






25. Process of paying close attention to one's own behavior and using these observations to shape the way one behaves.






26. Involve our attaching meaning to first-order things or situations.






27. Describes the abundance of nonverbal cues that add clarity to a verbal message.






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






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






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






31. 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.






32. Two messages that seem to deny or contradict each other - one at the verbal level and the other at the nonverbal level.






33. A mirroring of the judgements of those around him or her.






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






35. Expresses how you feel about the other person.






36. People we use to evaluate our own characteristics.






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






38. Two-person interacting






39. Messages expressed by nonlinguistic means.






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






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






42. Physically observable qualities of a thing or situation.






43. Arrange it in some meaningful way in order to make sense of the world.






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






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






46. Communication strategies people use to influence how others view them.






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






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






49. Deliberate attempt to hide or misrepresent the truth.






50. Study of how communication is affected by the use - organization - and perception of space and distance.