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Professional Communication Skills Vocab
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1. Our public selves that make up who we want to be seen as
attitudes
face
asynchronous communication
encoding and decoding
2. A person who is a compulsive communicator. He or she seemingly cannot 'shut-up'
provinsialism
talkaholic
relationship
nominal group technique
3. The general predisposition to avoid situations that require communication
situational anxiety
consequentialism
cybervetting
communication apprehension
4. A therapeutic technique the help anxious people reduce their fears by associating communication with relaxation
cognitive therapy
intercultural communication
demographics
systematic desensitization
5. The source's act of transforming an idea into a message to transmit to a receiver
small power distance
encoding
contextual barriers to listening
attitudes
6. Reward for engaging in some activity. Example: when an audience applauds you during a presentation
source
positive reinforcement
disclosure
disclose
7. Having more information - stimulating creativity - a system of checks - better decision-making process - division of labor - motivation
large-power distance
advantages of working in teams
audience analysis
cognitive reconstructing
8. The result of an act of encoding
incremental plagiarism
paraphrasing
individualism
message
9. The anxiety a person experiences when speaking in public
asynchronous
stage fright
groupthink
disclosure
10. A therapeutic technique that helps people who are anxious reduce their fears by changing unrealistic beliefs to more realistic ones
qualities that define communication
cognitive reconstructing
incremental plagiarism
listen
11. This type of leader emphasizes accomplishing goals and managing time above all else
mindful communication
permanence of records
demographics
task leader
12. If in an argument with a friend you may say something you regret but can't take it back
beliefs
communication is irreversible
understand
consequentialism
13. Recasting your interpretation of an event from a different perspective
demographic profile
demographics
permanence of records
reframing
14. Modifying or changing the structure - design and/or delivery of your speech to your listeners to enhance message clarity - as well as making your examples and illustrations specifically applicable to your audience to help achieve and maintain audienc
backchanneling cues
audience adaptation
social loafing
visualization
15. Many digital communication technologies - particularly text-based technologies - lack much of the information we have face-to-face interactions
least group size
culture
low cues
conspicuousness
16. A learned system of meanings which help us make sense in our everyday surroundings
rhetorical sensitivity
psychographic profile
culture
communication apprehension
17. Those upon whom the ideas - feelings - information - e.g. the message - are presented
audience adaptation
demographics
audience
situational anxiety
18. An audience-centered approach to communication in which other perspectives are taken into account
attitudes
rhetorical sensitivity
flexible intercultural communication
small power distance
19. Cultures that work together to achieve a democratic and egalitarian decision-making process and power structure
evaluate
hearing
small power distance
learned helplessness
20. Revealing personal or intimate information to an online audience
hearing
positive reinforcement
disclose
democratic leadership
21. 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
understand
consensus
communication apprehension
conflict of interest
22. The process in which you are engaging when you share personal or intimate information with an online audience
jargon
paraphrasing
two-pizza team
disclosure
23. Proactively and systematically gathering and reviewing information about those whom you will be presenting your message in an effort to increase presentation effectiveness
ethical dilemma
audience analysis
demographic profile
decoding
24. The general and systematic study of what ought to be the grounds and principles for right and wrong human behavior
affordances
ethics
dialectic
collectivism
25. Lack of reward for engaging in a particular activity. In this case - specifically - children seldom encouraged to - or actively discouraged from - practicing communication skills
logos
inadequate positive reinforcement
multiplexity
writer's block
26. A culture in which the emphasis in on how intention or meaning can best be conveyed through the context and nonverbal channels
demographics
high-context culture
demographics
situational anxiety
27. Motivating team members by connecting them to a greater ideal
cognitive reconstructing
Editorial columns (opinions pieces)
transformational leadership
decoding
28. Motivating team members using a system of rewards and punishments
deontology
virtue ethics
transactional leadership
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
29. The process whereby one person stimulates meaning in the mind of another through verbal and/or nonverbal means
audience analysis
situational anxiety
psychographic profile
communication
30. Audience members' likes and dislikes
attitudes
communication
beliefs
plagiarism
31. Communication that is not occurring in real-time
individualism
transformational leadership
relationship
asynchronous
32. A situation that forces one to choose between two or more competing ethical principles - or between options that could compromise your ethical principles but protect one's self-interests
beliefs
ethical dilemma
groupthink
climate
33. The substantive aspect of a message
systematic desensitization
content
two-pizza team
encoding and decoding
34. Communication that is not occurring in real time
interpret
asynchronous communication
intercultural communication
laissez-faire leadership
35. Areas of the citations- like author - title - journal title - abstract or full text- that are found in various journals
content
writer's block
jargon
fields
36. A statement used in your presentation that demonstrates why the source you are referring to is credible
values
domain
small power distance
qualifier
37. A method that allows a public speaker to integrate research into the body of their text
values
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
factors that can increase stage fright
parenthetical citations
38. This refers to a tendency for team members to sit back and allow other members to shoulder a disproportional amount of work
noise
global plagiarism
social loafing
mindful communication
39. To say something in return: make an answer; to react in response
communication is irreversible
respond
advantages of working in teams
multiplexity
40. What an audience members judge to be right or wrong
virtue ethics
rhetorical sensitivity
values
paraphrasing
41. The extent to which the message after transmission is similar to the message originally transmitted
plagiarism
social loafing
situational anxiety
fidelity
42. The medium through which a message passes on its way from source to receiver
situational anxiety
high-context culture
paraphrasing
channel
43. Any condition that affects the fidelity of the message being sent (internal or external)
audience analysis
communication
noise
backchanneling cues
44. Service provider used for sending digital communication; usually associated with emails
synchronous
situational anxiety
situational anxiety
domain
45. 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
labeling
high-context culture
least group size
patchwork plagiarism
46. The way in which people segment a sequence of words or behaviors
attitudes
communication
visualization
punctuation
47. To bring to mind or think of again; to keep in mind for attention or consideration
audience analysis
kickoff meeting
remember
fields
48. The perspective that the ethical quality of an action is determined by the intentions and virtue of the actor
intercultural communication
virtue ethics
incremental plagiarism
task leader
49. Describes the physical process of sound waves bouncing off of an eardrum
channel
advantages of working in teams
hearing
climate
50. Listening that is peculiar to a certain individual; the listening skills are modified or affected by personal views - experience - or background - i.e. - a subjective account of the incident
dispositional communication anxiety
reframing
subjective listening
shyness
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