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Interpersonal Communication Chs. 1-4
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1A [blank_start]message[blank_end] is a performance that uses words and/or nonverbal behaviors to convey the thoughts, feelings, and intentions of the speaker.
- Amessage
2Through [blank_start]encoding[blank_end] we create messages that convey our meanings and goals by selecting words and behaviors that we believe represent our ideas and feelings.
- Aencoding
3Through [blank_start]decoding[blank_end], we interpret both words and nonverbal behaviors in order to make sense of the messages we receive from others.
- Adecoding
4The [blank_start]goals plans action[blank_end] theory of message production proposes that goals motivate us to communicate, but planning determines what we actually say.
- Agoals plans action
5A [blank_start]canned plan[blank_end] is a learned communication strategy for a specific type of situation.
- Acanned plan
6A [blank_start]script[blank_end] is a sequence of communication behaviors or messages designed to carry out a plan.
- Ascript
7[blank_start]Interaction coordination[blank_end] are the activities participants in a conversation perform to adjust their behaviors to those of their partners.
- AInteraction coordination
8[blank_start]Message interpretation[blank_end] is the process of understanding a message you have received.
- AMessage interpretation
9[blank_start]Semantic noise[blank_end] are the words in a message that distort or interfere with the interpretation of the meaning of a message.
- ASemantic noise
10[blank_start]Internal noise[blank_end] - the thoughts and feelings that interfere with producing or interpreting meaning.
- AInternal noise
11[blank_start]External[blank_end] noise - physical sights, sounds, and other stimuli that draw peoples attention away from intended meaning.
- AExternal
12[blank_start]Noise[blank_end] - any stimulus that interferes with shared meaning.
- ANoise
13The characteristics of interpersonal communication: its [blank_start]transactional[blank_end], [blank_start]irreversible[blank_end], [blank_start]situated[blank_end], it reveals [blank_start]relationship qualities[blank_end], and its [blank_start]continuous[blank_end].
- Atransactional
- Birreversible
- Csituated
- Drelationship qualities
- Econtinuous
14[blank_start]Automatic[blank_end] social cognition - arriving at conclusions about others, ourselves, or a situation without much consciousness, intention, or awareness of their future impact.
- AAutomatic
15[blank_start]Controlled[blank_end] social cognition - consciously and intentionally stopping to think about something because you realize that how you think will affect what happens.
- AControlled
16[blank_start]attention[blank_end] - the process of focusing more closely on some of the stimuli in your environment.
- Aattention
17[blank_start]salient[blank_end] - directing attention at people or things because they stand out in the social context, differ from our expectations, or are related to our goals. They're noticeable.
- Asalient
18[blank_start]Memories[blank_end] - recollection of specific people and events that happened in the past.
- AMemories
19[blank_start]Schema[blank_end] - memory structure that connects something or someone to its related qualities.
- ASchema
20[blank_start]Implicit personality[blank_end] theory - connects a set of personality traits or behaviors.
- AImplicit personality
21[blank_start]Judgment[blank_end] - evaluation of people and their behaviors.
- AJudgment
22[blank_start]Stereotype[blank_end] - a schema in which the central concept is a category or group of people.
- AStereotype
23[blank_start]Attributions[blank_end] are explanations we think of for why a particular person is behaving a certain way.
- AAttributions
24[blank_start]Situational[blank_end] attribution - an explanation that puts the cause of the behavior outside the control of a person.
- ASituational
25[blank_start]Dispositional[blank_end] attribution - an explanation that puts the cause of a behavior within the control of a person.
- ADispositional
26[blank_start]Blatant[blank_end] stereotyping - when people who have extremely negative views of out-groups express and promote those views, and readily apply their stereotypes to members of the out-groups.
- ABlatant
27[blank_start]Subtle[blank_end] stereotyping - when people who are minimally aware that they are basing their interaction on stereotypes nonetheless act toward someone on the basis of that stereotype.
- ASubtle
28[blank_start]Discrimination[blank_end] - acting differently toward a stereotyped group or individual.
- ADiscrimination
29[blank_start]Self-concept[blank_end] - large schema in memory that is the collection of all of the ideas you have about yourself, including your abilities, personality traits, and roles.
- ASelf-concept
30[blank_start]Self-schema[blank_end] - the qualities of yourself that you see as most central in defining or understanding who you really are.
- ASelf-schema
31[blank_start]Culture shock[blank_end] - the psychological discomfort you experience when you must interact in a new culture.
- ACulture shock
32[blank_start]Culture[blank_end] - the system of shared values, beliefs, attitudes, and orientations learned through communication that guides what is considered to be appropriate thought and behavior in a particular segment of the population.
- ACulture
33[blank_start]Intercultural[blank_end] communication - interactions that occur between people whose cultures are so different that the communication between them is altered.
- AIntercultural
34[blank_start]Dominant culture[blank_end] - the learned system of values, beliefs, attitudes, and orientations held by the majority.
- ADominant culture
35[blank_start]Co-culture[blank_end] - cultures that exist side by side with the dominant culture and comprise smaller numbers of people with common values, beliefs, attitudes, or orientations.
- ACo-culture
36[blank_start]Chronemics[blank_end] - the study of how perception of time differs between individuals and cultures.
- AChronemics
37[blank_start]Low-context[blank_end] culture - a culture in which message meanings are usually encoded in the verbal part of the message.
- ALow-context
38[blank_start]High-context[blank_end] culture - much of the real meaning of a message is indirect and can only be accurately decoded by referring to unwritten cultural rules and subtle nonverbal behavior.
- AHigh-context
39Barriers to effective intercultural communication: [blank_start]anxiety[blank_end], assumed [blank_start]similarity or difference[blank_end], [blank_start]ethnocentrism[blank_end], [blank_start]stereotyping[blank_end], incompatible [blank_start]communication[blank_end] codes, incompatible [blank_start]norms and values[blank_end].
- Aanxiety
- Bsimilarity or difference
- Cethnocentrism
- Dstereotyping
- Ecommunication
- Fnorms and values
40[blank_start]Language[blank_end] is a symbolic system used by people to communicate verbal or written messages.
- ALanguage
41[blank_start]Lexicon[blank_end] - the collection of words and expressions in a language.
- ALexicon
42[blank_start]Syntax[blank_end] and [blank_start]grammar[blank_end] - the rules for combining words into larger units of expression.
- ASyntax
- Bgrammar
43Characteristics of a Language: It is [blank_start]arbitrary[blank_end], [blank_start]ambiguous[blank_end], [blank_start]abstract[blank_end], self reflexive, it [blank_start]changes[blank_end], and it [blank_start]reveals[blank_end].
- Aarbitrary
- Bambiguous
- Cabstract
- Dchanges
- Ereveals
44[blank_start]Denotation[blank_end] - the direct, explicit meaning of a word found in a written dictionary of the language community.
- ADenotation
45[blank_start]Connotation[blank_end] - the feelings or evaluations we personally associate with a word.
- AConnotation
46[blank_start]Jargon[blank_end] - the technical terminology whose meaning is understood by only a select group of people in a specialized speech community based on shared interests.
- AJargon
47[blank_start]Slang[blank_end] - the informal vocabulary developed and used by particular co-cultural groups in a society.
- ASlang
48[blank_start]Conversational[blank_end] maxims - specific rules that cooperating partners count on others to follow.
- AConversational
49Maxim of [blank_start]quality[blank_end] - the assumption that others will tell the truth.
- Aquality
50[blank_start]Face[blank_end] - our public self image.
- AFace
51[blank_start]Politeness[blank_end] - language strategies that show concern for face.
- APoliteness
52[blank_start]Idioms[blank_end] - expressions used by members of a language or speech community whose meaning differs from the usual meanings associated with that combination of words.
- AIdioms
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- Psychology Quiz on Interpersonal Communication Chs. 1-4, created by Cristal Yttesen on 13/02/2020.
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