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






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






3. Degrees of self-dsclosure.






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






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






6. 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.






7. Study of how the eyes can communicate.






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






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






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






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






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






13. Anything that interferes with the transmission and reception of a message.






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






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






16. When people treat one another as unique individuals - regardless of the context in which the interaction occurs or the number of people involved.






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






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






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






20. Deliberate attempt to hide or misrepresent the truth.






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






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






23. Process of attaching meaning to behavior.






24. Plays a role in virtually every interpersonal act.






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






26. Expresses how you feel about the other person.






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






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






29. People we use to evaluate our own characteristics.






30. Two-person interacting






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






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






33. Any interaction between more than two people.






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






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






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






37. Stories we use to describe our personal worlds.






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






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






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






41. Messages expressed by nonlinguistic means.






42. Process of protecting our presenting self - our face






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






44. Exaggerated beliefs associated with a categorizing system.






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






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






47. Study of how people communicate through bodily movements.






48. 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






49. Person whose evaluations are especially influential.






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