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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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1. Study of how people communicate through bodily movements.






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






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






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






5. Contrasts with Neutrality. Helps rid communication of the quality of indifference.






6. Expresses how you feel about the other person.






7. Exaggerated beliefs associated with a categorizing system.






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






9. First type of defense-arousing message; judges other person usually in a negative way






10. Personal invisible bubble; our own area. People's personal space vary.






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






12. Closer phase is the distance at which most couples stand in public. Keeping someone at 'arms-length' 18 inches to 4 feet.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. Two-person interacting






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. Study of how the eyes can communicate.






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






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






37. Someone who is positive they're right.






38. Speaking before you think - blurting out loud - tendency to transmit messages without considering their consequences.






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






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






41. Has two or more equally plausible meanings






42. Stories we use to describe our personal worlds.






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






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






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






47. Not being malicious; is seen as helpful






48. Messages that we perceive as challenging the image we want to project






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






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