I.C.
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- Interpersonal Communication
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Can be defined as the exchange of symbols used in joint of pursuit with interpersonal goals
- Interpersonal Goal
- something one person wants to achieve that is linked to another persons thoughts or feelings
- Transactive Goal
- A goal that can be modified during the conversation or interaction
- Self-Presentation Goal
- Working to communicate an image of who we are and how we want to be perceived
- Relational Goal
- working to develop, maintain, or neglect personal relationships
- instrumental goal
- try to get others to do us a favor or provide some kind of resource
- semantic code
- the meaning of words and how we remember htem
- syntactic code
- the order of how a sentence should be structured with meaning
- pragmatic code
- Context "I love you" at a wedding VS. at a bar, surroundings
- confirming messages
- recognition of your partners existance, recognition of your partner as a un
- disconfirming message
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negative evaluation of your partner and the relationship
- denotative meaning
- the actual meaning of the word
- connotative meaning
- implied meaning (leave your baggage at the door)
- nonverbal communication
- communication without words, with use of cues
- facial expression and gaze
- duration and direction of gaze and a persons facial expressions
- kinesics
- body movement during communication
- haptics
- special category of kinesics involving TOUCH
- paralanguage
- its not what you say, its how you say it
- proxemics
- use of space with our communication
- physical appearance
- how we want to appear to others, hair color, body type, etc
- chronemics
- use of time (e.g., how late to arrive,) rhythims (e.g., body cycles such as menstraul) and how many activities we perform at one time
- enviroment
- the amount of noise, the physical structure, the temperature, and even the color of the space
- artifacts
- objects
- social cognition
- refers to the mental processes and structures used to make sense of, remember, and think about people and interactions
- schemata
- knowledge structures that people develop over their lives
- self-schemtata
- how someone views themselves (who am i?)
- event schemata
- how a person expects an event to go, order of events (e.g. first day of school)
- role schemata
- the role that we or someone else plays based on their racial background, sex, occupation) STEREOTYPES
- person schemata
- prototypes, reflect on people they know (my son cameron) or types of people (happy people should generally be happy)
- relational schemata
- is to make sense of love, friendship, family, and work bonds. help people predict, interpret, expect and remember things for such relationships
- interpersonal expectancies
- focus particularly on how we think people will or ought to communicate with us
- attributions
- why a person did what they did
- fundamental attribution error
- assuming someone did it because of internal purposes vs. external
- person perception
- our attempt to determine what others are like and whether we like them
- stereotypes
- categories about people and are based on membership in a group
- self presentation
- how we present an image of ourselves to the public and their reactions
- impression management
- a conscious effort to control selected behaviors in order to make a desired impression on a particular audience
- indicators of attainment
- verbal and nonverbal messages that tell us whether our identity is acceptable to others
- ingratiation
- those who practice this want to appear likable and try to do so by describing themselves in ways that target audience values, being friendly, doing favors, giving compliments
- self promotion
- being seen as competent in a certain skill or activity
- exemplification
- the attempt to project an image of integrity and moral worthiness. wish to be viewed as dedicated, committed, and self-sacrificing
- identification
- a person may make a certain activity their identity by dressing a certain way or affiliating with others in a certain way
- association with others
- some people rely indirectly on associations with others to bolster their self image or public image
- hyperpersonal perspective
- a computer meditated communication. ability to edit what we are going to say. we may grow to know people off of their internet profile
- self-disclosure
- being broadly defined, refers to any information you offer about yourself
- evaluative intimacy
- disclosure that presents ones attitude
- descriptive intimacy
-
disclosure that conveys an objective observation (willing to tell)
- norm of reciprocity
- means offering communicative response that matches a partners previous communication
- social penetration theory
- REWARDS AND COSTS
- account
- your side of the story
- apology (account)
- accepts responsibility while asking to be pardoned
- excuse (account)
- a statement used to deny or reduce ones perceived level of responsibility
- justifications (account)
- a person accepts responsibility for the behavior but denies that it was harmful or tries to claim that it had positive consequences
- refusals (account)
- a person denies the questionable act
- positive face needs
- refers to the desire to be liked and respected by others
- negative face needs
- deal with our desire to be free from constraints and obligations
- face-theatening acts
- can be any speech act that may potentially threaten the face of anyone present