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Interpersonal Communication Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Stories we use to describe our personal worlds.
Interrupting Response
Narrative
Dyad
Disfluencies
2. Fields of experience that help them make sense of others behavior.
Confirming Communication
Environment (Contexts)
Spontaneity
Confirmation Bias
3. Even though the group may have greater talent in certain areas - they see other human beings as having just as much worth as themselves.
Superiority
Strategy
Equality
Presenting Self
4. A mirroring of the judgements of those around him or her.
Equivocal Language
Self- monitoring
Reflected Appraisal
Environment (Contexts)
5. Expresses how you feel about the other person.
Negotiation
Relational Dimension (of a message)
Impervious Response
Reference Groups
6. It says 'you're wrong'. Includes recognition and acknowledgment. Can devastate another person.
Equality
Disagreeing Message
Reference Groups
Chronemics
7. The tendency to form an overall positive impression a person on the basis of the positive characteristics.
Communication Climate
Halo Effect
Lie
Reference Groups
8. Degrees of self-dsclosure.
Communication Climate
Social Penetration Model
Cognitive Competence
Chronemics
9. Occurs when one person begins to speak before the other is through making a point.
Interrupting Response
Territory
Self-serving Bias
Description
10. Not being malicious; is seen as helpful
Negotiation
Empathy
Disagreeing Message
Benevolent Lie
11. Communication strategies people use to influence how others view them.
Self-serving Bias
Territory
Incongruous Response
Identity Management
12. Two-person interacting
Equality
Dyad
Impervious Response
Significant Other
13. Describes the way a message is spoken; vocal rate - pronunciation - pitch - tone - volume and emphasis.
Haptics
Complaining
Oculesics
Paralanguage
14. Describes the abundance of nonverbal cues that add clarity to a verbal message.
Disagreeing Message
Richness (of communication media)
Computer-mediated Communication (CMC)
Lie
15. Has two or more equally plausible meanings
Equivocal Language
Significant Other
Chronemics
Controlling Communication
16. Both effective and appropriate; trying to balance the two when communicating.
Communication Competence
Communication Climate
Regulators
Problem Orientation
17. Verbal and nonverbal ways in which we act to maintain our own presenting image and image of others.
Incongruous Response
First-order Realities
Facework
Androgynous
18. Process by which communicators influence each other's perceptions through communication.
Emblems
Richness (of communication media)
Evaluation
Negotiation
19. Speaking before you think - blurting out loud - tendency to transmit messages without considering their consequences.
Impersonal Response
Regulators
Interrupting Response
Disinhibition
20. When people treat one another as unique individuals - regardless of the context in which the interaction occurs or the number of people involved.
Qualitative Interpersonal Communication
Negotiation
Provisionalism
Disagreeing Message
21. First type of defense-arousing message; judges other person usually in a negative way
Complaining
Self-serving Bias
Evaluation
Spiral
22. Physical traits - personality characteristics - attitudes - aptitudes; image you want to present to the world
Certainty
Significant Other
Presenting Self
Aggressiveness
23. Anything that interferes with the transmission and reception of a message.
Empathy
Noise
Disfluencies
Transaction Communication Model
24. When we judge ourselves in the most generous terms possible.
Nonverbal Communication
Self-serving Bias
Perceived Self
Incongruous Response
25. When a sender seems to be imposing a solution on the receiver with little regard for the receiver's needs or interests.
Paralanguage
Cognitive Conservatism
Controlling Communication
Certainty
26. Contains a message with more than one meaning. The words are highly abstract or have meanings private to the speaker alone.
Ambiguous Response
Cognitive Competence
Empathy
Identity Management
27. Closer range public distance. Beyond 25 feet two-way communication is almost impossible.
Public Distance
Complaining
Self-serving Bias
Channel
28. Process of attaching meaning to behavior.
Attribution
Social Penetration Model
Selection
Confirmation Bias
29. Messages that convey valuing - E.g. 'you exist' 'you're important'
Proxemics
Equality
Standpoint Theory
Confirming Communication
30. Involves the information being explicitly discussed - E.g. 'Please pass the milk'
Narrative
Content Dimension
Stereotyping
Nonverbal Communication
31. Ability to re-create another person's perspective - to experience the world from his/her point of view -
Dyad
Personal Space
Androgynous
Empathy
32. Study of how the eyes can communicate.
Content Dimension
Oculesics
Haptics
Social Penetration Model
33. Any interaction between more than two people.
Narrative
Paralanguage
Quantitive Interpersonal Communication
Noise
34. Masculine and feminine traits.
Androgynous
Emblems
Kinesics
Noise
35. Attempt to depict all the factors that affect human interaction.
Tangential Response
Stereotyping
Transaction Communication Model
Self-Disclosure
36. Image you want to present to the world
Face
Significant Other
Manipulators
Emblems
37. Fourth behavior that arouses defensiveness. 'Indifference' - E.g. 911 telephone dispatchers
Impersonal Response
Neutrality
Evaluation
Identity Management
38. Distinguishes the study of touching.
Reflected Appraisal
Kinesics
Equivocal Language
Haptics
39. Person whose evaluations are especially influential.
Empathy
Significant Other
Spontaneity
Dyad
40. Exaggerated beliefs associated with a categorizing system.
Stereotyping
Provisionalism
Nonverbal Communication
Quantitive Interpersonal Communication
41. 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.
Defensiveness
Stereotyping
Intimate Distance
Kinesics
42. Popular approach for offering constructive criticism. To sandwich your issue of concern between two positive comments.
Chronemics
Social Comparison
Sandwich Method
Significant Other
43. Tendency to seek information that conforms to an existing self-concept.
First-order Realities
Nonverbal Communication
Self- monitoring
Cognitive Conservatism
44. Used to describe the medium through which messages are exchanged - E.g. face to face - phones - email - instant messages
Manipulators
Equality
Channel
Spiral
45. Speaker conducts a monologue filled with impersonal - intellectualized and generalized statements. Speaker never really interacts with the other on a personal level.
Punctuation
Sandwich Method
Reflected Appraisal
Impersonal Response
46. Definse-arousing messages in which speakers hide their ulterior motives.
Presenting Self
Public Distance
Perceived Self
Strategy
47. How a person's position in a society shapes their view of society in general and of specific individuals.
Standpoint Theory
Self- monitoring
Confirmation Bias
Presenting Self
48. Describes the study of how humans use and structure time.
Attribution
Chronemics
Tangential Response
Ambiguous Response
49. Deliberate attempt to hide or misrepresent the truth.
Interpretation
Disconfirming Communication
Facework
Lie
50. 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.
Regulators
Self-fulfilling Prophecy
Computer-mediated Communication (CMC)
Perceived Self