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Interpersonal Communication Vocab
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1. Occurs when one person begins to speak before the other is through making a point.
Standpoint Theory
Interrupting Response
Strategy
Self-fulfilling Prophecy
2. 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.
Feedback
Emblems
Confirmation Bias
Stereotyping
3. Personal invisible bubble; our own area. People's personal space vary.
Strategy
Personal Space
Lie
Social Comparison
4. Process of protecting our presenting self - our face
Strategy
Stereotyping
Evaluation
Defensiveness
5. When communicators aren't prepared to argue but still want to register dissatisfaction.
Complaining
Selection
Territory
Kinesics
6. Taking a positive approach to the term; presenting and defending positions on issues while attacking positions taken by others.
Richness (of communication media)
Intimate Distance
Tangential Response
Argumentativeness
7. Used to describe the medium through which messages are exchanged - E.g. face to face - phones - email - instant messages
Presenting Self
Channel
Disfluencies
Richness (of communication media)
8. Anything that interferes with the transmission and reception of a message.
Self- monitoring
Superiority
Social Penetration Model
Noise
9. Reciprocal pattern of climate patterns. Can be positive or negative.
Dyad
Spiral
Second-order Realities
Sandwich Method
10. Tendency to seek information that conforms to an existing self-concept.
Empathy
Complaining
Cognitive Conservatism
Environment (Contexts)
11. Masculine and feminine traits.
Nonverbal Communication
Disagreeing Message
Disfluencies
Androgynous
12. Expresses how you feel about the other person.
Disagreeing Message
Richness (of communication media)
Disinhibition
Relational Dimension (of a message)
13. Any interaction between more than two people.
Quantitive Interpersonal Communication
Disagreeing Message
Tangential Response
Strategy
14. Fields of experience that help them make sense of others behavior.
Impersonal Response
Environment (Contexts)
Irrelevant Response
Ambiguous Response
15. Culturally understood substitutes for verbal expressons - E.g. Nodding head up and down for yes/no
Emblems
Personal Space
Organization
Disagreeing Message
16. Ability to construct a variety of different frameworks for viewing an issue.
Neutrality
Intimate Distance
Presenting Self
Cognitive Competence
17. A mirroring of the judgements of those around him or her.
Strategy
Reflected Appraisal
Haptics
Negotiation
18. Person you believe yourself to be in moments of honest self-examination.
Irrelevant Response
Perceived Self
Self-Disclosure
Confirming Communication
19. 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
Empathy
Tangential Response
Self-concept
Disinhibition
20. 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.
Relational Dimension (of a message)
Strategy
Face-threatening Acts
Intimate Distance
21. Describes the abundance of nonverbal cues that add clarity to a verbal message.
Benevolent Lie
Disagreeing Message
Richness (of communication media)
Feedback
22. 5th behavior creating a defensive climate. A message that suggests 'I'm better than you.'
Quantitive Interpersonal Communication
Organization
Feedback
Superiority
23. Arrange it in some meaningful way in order to make sense of the world.
Qualitative Interpersonal Communication
Richness (of communication media)
Aggressiveness
Organization
24. Fails to acknowledge the other person's communicative attempt - verbally or nonverbally - E.g. Failing to return a phone call
Impervious Response
First-order Realities
Cognitive Conservatism
Description
25. Exaggerated beliefs associated with a categorizing system.
Impersonal Response
Stereotyping
Standpoint Theory
Social Distance
26. The tendency to form an overall positive impression a person on the basis of the positive characteristics.
Confirming Communication
Argumentativeness
Presenting Self
Halo Effect
27. Evaluating ourselves in terms of how we compare with others.
Argumentativeness
Quantitive Interpersonal Communication
Perceived Self
Social Comparison
28. Verbal or nonverbal; Indicates a response to the previous passage/message.
Dyad
Narrative
Feedback
Stereotyping
29. Ability to re-create another person's perspective - to experience the world from his/her point of view -
Empathy
Benevolent Lie
Channel
Personal Space
30. Process of attaching meaning to behavior.
Attribution
Selection
Qualitative Interpersonal Communication
Communication Competence
31. Closer range public distance. Beyond 25 feet two-way communication is almost impossible.
Richness (of communication media)
Spiral
Public Distance
Lie
32. Area that serves as an extension of our physical being.
Territory
Haptics
Social Comparison
Equivocal Language
33. Making comments totally unrelated to what the other person was just saying.
Transaction Communication Model
Quantitive Interpersonal Communication
Spontaneity
Irrelevant Response
34. Messages expressed by nonlinguistic means.
Facework
Impersonal Response
Qualitative Interpersonal Communication
Nonverbal Communication
35. Provides a better way to check and to share your interpretations. Has three parts.
Organization
Perception Checking
Presenting Self
Androgynous
36. How a person's position in a society shapes their view of society in general and of specific individuals.
Selection
Standpoint Theory
Reflected Appraisal
Tangential Response
37. 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.
Description
Defensiveness
Self-fulfilling Prophecy
Transaction Communication Model
38. Two-person interacting
Narrative
Attribution
Impersonal Response
Dyad
39. 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-Disclosure
Problem Orientation
Provisionalism
Cognitive Conservatism
40. Communicators focus on finding a solution that satisfies both their own needs and those of the others involved.
Confirming Communication
Problem Orientation
Communication Competence
Evaluation
41. Degrees of self-dsclosure.
Reference Groups
Social Penetration Model
First-order Realities
Identity Management
42. Both effective and appropriate; trying to balance the two when communicating.
Oculesics
Nonverbal Communication
Communication Competence
Ambiguous Response
43. Cues that help control verbal interaction - E.g. Wide array of turn-taking signals in everyday conversation.
Regulators
Organization
Spiral
Transaction Communication Model
44. Closer phase is the distance at which most couples stand in public. Keeping someone at 'arms-length' 18 inches to 4 feet.
Personal Distance
Self-esteem
Manipulators
Second-order Realities
45. Study of how communication is affected by the use - organization - and perception of space and distance.
Transaction Communication Model
Proxemics
Perceived Self
Significant Other
46. A way to offer thoughts - feelings - and wants without judging the listener.
Chronemics
Social Comparison
Dyad
Description
47. Determination of causes and effects in a series of interactions.
Nonverbal Communication
Disinhibition
Presenting Self
Punctuation
48. 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
Regulators
Qualitative Interpersonal Communication
Impervious Response
49. First step to perception; where data we will attend to.
Social Comparison
Selection
Cognitive Competence
Identity Management
50. Signals a lack of regard - E.g. 'I don't like you' 'I Don't care about you'
Attribution
Standpoint Theory
Kinesics
Disconfirming Communication