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Professional Communication Skills 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. A way of better understanding your audience by compiling attitudinal information relative to values - beliefs - and ideology of your audience






2. The general and systematic study of what ought to be the grounds and principles for right and wrong human behavior






3. This refers to a tendency for group members to seek social harmony so much that it negatively impacts their decision-making abilities






4. Cultures like the US - Canada - and Western Europe who value individual identity - individual rights over group rights - and individual needs over group needs






5. When employers use internet searches and social networking sites to find out information or screen potential hires






6. Ideas - feelings - information - and the like presented to an audience through a variety of methods as selected by the presenter - and preferably developed at all times with the audience in mind






7. Therapeutic technique that helps alleviate people's fear through directed conversation






8. Falsely representing any material obtained from another source as your own work






9. A decision-making method that pursues agreement among most team members while thoughtfully resolving and/or alleviating objections along the way






10. Just because you are not talking does not mean you are not sending a message. Name the basic proposition of communication that explains this concept






11. The normal anxiety people experience when they find themselves in a stressful situation






12. The process in which you are engaging when you share personal or intimate information with an online audience






13. A type of book that does not consist of one comprehensive study but instead a number of studies written by various authors






14. The organization style used for referencing citations in your actual presentation






15. A type of newspaper article - written either by editors of the newspapers or approved guest writers - that expresses an opinion rather than delivering neutral reports on the news






16. To bring to mind or think of again; to keep in mind for attention or consideration






17. Two or more people working together to produce a result they could not have produced on their own






18. A sense of 'stuckness' when trying to write

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19. A therapeutic technique that helps anxious people reduce their fears by visualizing positive outcomes of future experiences






20. To say something in return: make an answer; to react in response






21. To determine or fix the value of; to determine the significance - worth - or condition of - usually by careful appraisal and study






22. Location - cultural differences - gender styles






23. Cultures that view conflict as natural and potentially positive






24. Cues to let the speaker know you're listening






25. Communication is a process - the stimulation of meaning - and both verbal and nonverbal






26. The minimum number of people needed to achieve the desired results






27. The process where you rearticulate - in your words - what you learned from consulting the research of an original author






28. Recasting your interpretation of an event from a different perspective






29. Fearing evaluation - feeling - feeling conspicuous - holding yourself to rigid rules - negative self-talk






30. A leadership style in which the leader is hands-off and allows members to make decisions on their own






31. A situation in which person or organization has multiple has multiple interest at stake in a decision - and motivations form one of those interests may corrupt decisions made about another






32. The process whereby one person stimulates meaning in the mind of another through verbal and/or nonverbal means






33. Specialized and complicated terminology used by a particular discipline






34. What audience members hold to be true or false






35. Having multiple types of connections with another person in your group






36. Being adaptive - creative - and experimental in your communication style






37. A type of therapy that helps alleviate people's fears through directed conversation






38. Describes the physical process of sound waves bouncing off of an eardrum






39. A tension between two opposing but valuable preferences






40. Standards for behavior that people don't alter even when the situation warrants






41. A leadership style in which the leader makes decisions by herself






42. Combining information from several different sources to create your work and either failing to properly cite them all or failing to add your own original contribution






43. 'Learning' through experience that you can't change a situation






44. Those upon whom the ideas - feelings - information - e.g. the message - are presented






45. The source's act of transforming an idea into a message to transmit to a receiver






46. The perspective that the best way to determine the ethical course of action is to consider the relationship between the actions of others and one's own choices of actions






47. To mark or perceive the distinguishing or peculiar features of; to distinguish by discerning or exposing differences






48. The consequentialist principle that one should choose the course of action that creates the most god for the greatest number of people






49. The capabilities of the technology used to communicate online






50. The act of interpreting a situation and treating the interoperation as real