Comm41 Midterm Review 2
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- noise
- anything literal or psychological that interferes with accurate reception of the communication of the message
- feedback
- response to a message
- context
- physical and psychological envrionment for communication
- episode
- sequence of interaction between individuals, during which the message of one person influences the message of another
- mediated interpersonal communication
- communication with others established or maintained through media (email, phones) rather than face-to-face
- social information-processing theory
- theory that explains how people use information they receive from others via email and other electronic media to develop relationships with others
- symbol
- word, sound, or visual image that represents a thought, concept, or object
- rule
- a followable perscription that indicates what behavior is obligated, preferred, or prohibited in certain communication situations or contexts
- content
- new information, ideas, or suggested actions that a speaker wishes to share
- relationship dimension
- the implied aspect of a communication message, which conveys information about emotions, attitudes, power, and control
- communibiological approach
- theoretical perspective suggests people's communication behavior can be predicted based on personal traits and characteristics that result from their genetic or biological background
- social learning theory
- theory of human behavior that suggests we can learn how to adapt and adjust our behavior toward others; how we behave is not solely dependent on our genetic or biological makeup
- ethics
- the beliefs, values, and moral principles by which people determin what is right or wrong
- other-oriented communicator
- one who considers the thoughts, feelings, and perspectives of communication partners while maintaing his or her own integrity
- egocentric communicator
- a person who creates messages without giving much thought to the person who is listening; a person who is self-focused and self-absorbed
- self
- sum total of who a person is; a person's central inner force
- self-concept
- a person's subjective description of who he or she is
- attitude
- learned predisposition to respond to a person, object, or idea in a favorable or unfavorable way
- belief
- way in which you structure your understanding of reality- what is true and what is false
- value
- enduring concept of good and bad, right and wrong
- material self
- your concept of self as reflected in a total of all the tangible things you own. Also: body image, keeping up with the Joneses
- social self
- your concept of self as reflectedin your social interactions with others
- spiritual self
- your concept of self based on your thoughts and introspections about your values, moral standards, and beliefs
- looking-glass self
- concept that suggests you learn who you are based on your interactions with others, who reflect your self back to you
- symbolic interaction theory
- the theory that people make sense of the world on the basis of their interactions with other people
- androgynous role
- gender that includes both masculine and feminie qualties
- self-reflexiveness
- human ability to think about what you are doing while you are doing it
- psychology
- study of how thinking influences behavior
- personality
- set of enduring internal predispositions and behavioral characteristics that describe how people react to their envrionment
- communication apprehension
- fear or anxiety associated with either real or anticipated communication with other people
- self-worth (self-esteem)
- your evaluation of your worth or value based on your perception of such things as your skills, abilities, talents,and appearance
- social comparison
- process of comparing yourself to others who are similar to you to measure your worth and value
- life position
- your feelings of regard for yourself and others, as reflected in your sense of worth and self-esteem
- face
- a person's positive perception of himself or herself in interactions with others
- facework
- using communication to maintain your own positive self-perception (self-face) or to support, reinforce, or challange someone else's self-perception (other-face)
- visualization
- technique of imagining that you are preforming a particular task in a certain way. Positive visualization can enhanse your self-esteem
- reframing
- process of redefining events and experiences from a different point of view
- social decentering
- cognitive process in which you take into account another person's thoughts, feelings, values, background, and perspective
- specific-other perspective
- a perspective that uses information that one can observe or imagine about another person to predict that person's behavior
- generalized-other perspective
- a perspective that uses observed or imagined information about many people, or people in general, to predict a person's behavior
- self-fulfilling prophecy
- a prediction about your future actions that is likely to come true because you believe it will come true
- self-exposure
- principle that suggest people tend to place themselves in situations that are consistent with their self-concept and self-esteem
- need for inclusion
- interpersonal need to be included and to include others in social activities
- need for control
- interpersonal need for some degree of domination in our relationships, as well as the need to be controlled
- need for affection
- interpersonal need to give love, personal support, warmth, and intimacy
- communication style
- identifiable or habitual way in which you communicate to other people
- assertiveness
- tendency to make requests, ask for information, and generally pursue your own rights and best interests
- responsiveness
- tendency to be sensitive to the needs of others, including being sympathetic to others' feelings and placing the feelings of others above your own feelings
- self-disclosure
- purposefully providing information to others that they would not learn if you did not tell them
- social penetration model
- model of self-disclosure and relational development that reflects both depth and breadth of shared information
- self-awareness
- a person's conscious understanding of who he or she is
- Johari window model
- model of self-disclosure that reflects the movement of information about yourself from blind and unknown quadrants to hidden and open ones
- dyadic effect
- the reciprocal nature of self-disclosure
- perception
- experiencing your world and making sense out of what you experience
- interpersonal perception
- selecting, organizing, and interpreting your observations of other people
- selective percpetion
- directing your attention to specific stimuli and consequently ignoring other stimuli
- punctuation
- making sense out of stimuli by grouping, dividing, organizing, seperating, and categorizing information
- superimpose
- to place a familiar structure on information you select
- closure
- the filling in of missing information
- passive perception
- preception that occurs because your senses are in operation