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Interpersonal Communication Vocab
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1. Contains a message with more than one meaning. The words are highly abstract or have meanings private to the speaker alone.
Ambiguous Response
Richness (of communication media)
Qualitative Interpersonal Communication
Reference Groups
2. Process by which communicators influence each other's perceptions through communication.
Neutrality
Negotiation
Chronemics
Oculesics
3. Degrees of self-dsclosure.
Halo Effect
Social Penetration Model
Presenting Self
Dyad
4. Contrasts with Neutrality. Helps rid communication of the quality of indifference.
Nonverbal Communication
Empathy
Irrelevant Response
Negotiation
5. Occurs when one person begins to speak before the other is through making a point.
Interrupting Response
Self- monitoring
Standpoint Theory
Facework
6. 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.
Kinesics
Lie
Manipulators
Ambiguous Response
7. Study of how the eyes can communicate.
Impervious Response
Empathy
Cognitive Competence
Oculesics
8. Physical traits - personality characteristics - attitudes - aptitudes; image you want to present to the world
Problem Orientation
Empathy
Feedback
Presenting Self
9. Stammering and the use of 'uh' - 'um' and 'er'
Disfluencies
Reference Groups
Impersonal Response
Self-concept
10. Person you believe yourself to be in moments of honest self-examination.
Perceived Self
Equivocal Language
Relational Dimension (of a message)
Identity Management
11. First step to perception; where data we will attend to.
Selection
Punctuation
Facework
Personal Space
12. Social tone of a relationship; way people feel about each other as they carry out activities
Territory
Evaluation
Communication Climate
Narrative
13. Anything that interferes with the transmission and reception of a message.
Facework
Significant Other
Noise
Aggressiveness
14. Tendency to seek information that conforms to an existing self-concept.
Cognitive Conservatism
Spontaneity
Negotiation
Dyad
15. Involves the information being explicitly discussed - E.g. 'Please pass the milk'
Tangential Response
Content Dimension
Personal Distance
Disagreeing Message
16. When people treat one another as unique individuals - regardless of the context in which the interaction occurs or the number of people involved.
Personal Space
Androgynous
Ambiguous Response
Qualitative Interpersonal Communication
17. A way to offer thoughts - feelings - and wants without judging the listener.
Description
Equality
Content Dimension
Sandwich Method
18. Communication strategies people use to influence how others view them.
Oculesics
Irrelevant Response
Identity Management
Complaining
19. Messages that convey valuing - E.g. 'you exist' 'you're important'
Description
Defensiveness
Facework
Confirming Communication
20. Deliberate attempt to hide or misrepresent the truth.
Evaluation
Presenting Self
Oculesics
Lie
21. Attempt to depict all the factors that affect human interaction.
Androgynous
Social Comparison
Equality
Transaction Communication Model
22. Ability to re-create another person's perspective - to experience the world from his/her point of view -
Interrupting Response
Self-concept
Empathy
Aggressiveness
23. Process of attaching meaning to behavior.
Kinesics
Attribution
Androgynous
Complaining
24. Plays a role in virtually every interpersonal act.
Interpretation
Organization
Problem Orientation
Personal Distance
25. Public image; the way we want to appear to others.
Androgynous
Lie
Presenting Self
Significant Other
26. Expresses how you feel about the other person.
Nonverbal Communication
Irrelevant Response
First-order Realities
Relational Dimension (of a message)
27. Contrasts with strategy. Being honest with others rather than manipulating them.
Argumentativeness
Spontaneity
Tangential Response
Haptics
28. Even though the group may have greater talent in certain areas - they see other human beings as having just as much worth as themselves.
Richness (of communication media)
Empathy
Equality
Facework
29. People we use to evaluate our own characteristics.
Problem Orientation
Reflected Appraisal
Facework
Reference Groups
30. Two-person interacting
Personal Distance
Sandwich Method
Communication Competence
Dyad
31. Part of self-concept that involves evaluations of self-worth.
Certainty
Disconfirming Communication
First-order Realities
Self-esteem
32. Describes the abundance of nonverbal cues that add clarity to a verbal message.
Richness (of communication media)
Argumentativeness
Standpoint Theory
Self-concept
33. Any interaction between more than two people.
Androgynous
Personal Distance
Quantitive Interpersonal Communication
Haptics
34. Reciprocal pattern of climate patterns. Can be positive or negative.
Provisionalism
Spiral
Territory
Confirming Communication
35. Fields of experience that help them make sense of others behavior.
Disfluencies
Negotiation
Identity Management
Environment (Contexts)
36. Culturally understood substitutes for verbal expressons - E.g. Nodding head up and down for yes/no
Intimate Distance
Self- monitoring
Impersonal Response
Emblems
37. Stories we use to describe our personal worlds.
Personal Distance
Self-Disclosure
Spiral
Narrative
38. A mirroring of the judgements of those around him or her.
Ambiguous Response
Manipulators
Reflected Appraisal
Social Comparison
39. Both effective and appropriate; trying to balance the two when communicating.
Interpretation
Nonverbal Communication
Communication Competence
Halo Effect
40. The relatively stable set of perceptions you hold of yourself.
Certainty
Self-concept
Selection
Quantitive Interpersonal Communication
41. Messages expressed by nonlinguistic means.
Disfluencies
Spiral
Richness (of communication media)
Nonverbal Communication
42. Process of protecting our presenting self - our face
Feedback
Spiral
Defensiveness
Disfluencies
43. The tendency to form an overall positive impression a person on the basis of the positive characteristics.
Controlling Communication
Self-esteem
Halo Effect
Irrelevant Response
44. Exaggerated beliefs associated with a categorizing system.
Sandwich Method
Perception Checking
Stereotyping
Ambiguous Response
45. Making comments totally unrelated to what the other person was just saying.
Self-fulfilling Prophecy
Disagreeing Message
Ambiguous Response
Irrelevant Response
46. First type of defense-arousing message; judges other person usually in a negative way
Paralanguage
Evaluation
Strategy
Stereotyping
47. Study of how people communicate through bodily movements.
Relational Dimension (of a message)
Kinesics
Qualitative Interpersonal Communication
Cognitive Conservatism
48. 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
Self-concept
Lie
Self-Disclosure
Paralanguage
49. Person whose evaluations are especially influential.
Significant Other
Incongruous Response
Irrelevant Response
Punctuation
50. Communicators focus on finding a solution that satisfies both their own needs and those of the others involved.
Superiority
Problem Orientation
Manipulators
Cognitive Competence