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Test your basic knowledge |

Interpersonal Communication Vocab

Subject : soft-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

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






2. The tendency to form an overall positive impression a person on the basis of the positive characteristics.






3. People we use to evaluate our own characteristics.






4. Masculine and feminine traits.






5. Popular approach for offering constructive criticism. To sandwich your issue of concern between two positive comments.






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






7. Ability to construct a variety of different frameworks for viewing an issue.






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






9. People may have strong opinions but are willing to acknowledge that they don't have a corner on the truth and will change their stand if they are wrong.






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






11. Communicators focus on finding a solution that satisfies both their own needs and those of the others involved.






12. Stammering and the use of 'uh' - 'um' and 'er'






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






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






15. Process of attaching meaning to behavior.






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






17. Study of how people communicate through bodily movements.






18. Deliberate attempt to hide or misrepresent the truth.






19. Determination of causes and effects in a series of interactions.






20. Process by which communicators influence each other's perceptions through communication.






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






22. 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.






23. A way to offer thoughts - feelings - and wants without judging the listener.






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






25. Both effective and appropriate; trying to balance the two when communicating.






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






27. Has two or more equally plausible meanings






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. Stories we use to describe our personal worlds.






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






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






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






38. Used to describe the medium through which messages are exchanged - E.g. face to face - phones - email - instant messages






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






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






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






42. 5th behavior creating a defensive climate. A message that suggests 'I'm better than you.'






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






44. 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.






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






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






47. Fourth behavior that arouses defensiveness. 'Indifference' - E.g. 911 telephone dispatchers






48. Even though the group may have greater talent in certain areas - they see other human beings as having just as much worth as themselves.






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






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






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