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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. Contains a message with more than one meaning. The words are highly abstract or have meanings private to the speaker alone.






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






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






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






5. Messages expressed by nonlinguistic means.






6. Closer range public distance. Beyond 25 feet two-way communication is almost impossible.






7. Exaggerated beliefs associated with a categorizing system.






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






9. Distance between communicators can have a powerful effect on how we regard and respond to others. 4 feet to 12 feet.






10. Contrasts with strategy. Being honest with others rather than manipulating them.






11. Has two or more equally plausible meanings






12. First step to perception; where data we will attend to.






13. Distinguishes the study of touching.






14. Evaluating ourselves in terms of how we compare with others.






15. How a person's position in a society shapes their view of society in general and of specific individuals.






16. Attempt to depict all the factors that affect human interaction.






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






18. Person whose evaluations are especially influential.






19. Part of self-concept that involves evaluations of self-worth.






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






21. Two-person interacting






22. Provides another way to interact by electronics - E.g. email - texting - IM - social networking - and blogging






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






24. Most destructive way to disagree with another person. Tendency to 'attack the self-concepts of other people in order to inflict psychological pain.' Demeans the worth of others - E.g. Name calling - put downs - sarcasm






25. Verbal and nonverbal ways in which we act to maintain our own presenting image and image of others.






26. Public image; the way we want to appear to others.






27. Process of protecting our presenting self - our face






28. Physical traits - personality characteristics - attitudes - aptitudes; image you want to present to the world






29. Signals a lack of regard - E.g. 'I don't like you' 'I Don't care about you'






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






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






32. Stories we use to describe our personal worlds.






33. Study of how the eyes can communicate.






34. Ability to re-create another person's perspective - to experience the world from his/her point of view -






35. Physically observable qualities of a thing or situation.






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






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






38. Tendency to seek information that conforms to an existing self-concept.






39. 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






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






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






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






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






44. 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.






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






46. Describes the way a message is spoken; vocal rate - pronunciation - pitch - tone - volume and emphasis.






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






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






49. Image you want to present to the world






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.