CAS470 Final
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- Barriers
- People arrange things around outer edges of their personal space to signal ownership.
- Interactional time
- How senses of time are coordinated.
- Boundary management theory
- Involves who is inside our personal boundary; level of privacy regulated by social, situational,and personal factors.
- Assortment model
- Preferences are homogeneous; based on evolutionary advantages
- Response latency
- Amount of time it takes to respond to other person.
- Recency effects
- Influence of recent behavior that may contradict first impressions.
- Distancing
- Flight response; avoid, withdraw, or delay intrusion of others.
- Self fulfilling prophecy
- If you expect someone to act a certain way, your treatment of them may cause them to act that way.
- Status
- Position in society
- Matching hypothesis
- People prefer those who are similar to them; preferences vary on different aspects.
- Kinesics
- Type and meaning of body cues.
- Equilibrium theory
- If we get too close to a non-intimate person, we seek equilibrium by stepping away or averting gaze.
- Social space zone
- 4 to 12 feet; where we conduct most of daily business.
- Dominance
- Power reletive to others
- Rejecting
- Flight response; more aggressive, environmental strategies more polite.
- Relational familiarity
- Deals with how well people know each other.
- Functional approach
- Stresses the effects of behavior instead of just describing what happens.
- Packages
- Nonverbal messages work together to fulfill various functions.
- Thin slice behaviors and perception
- Impressions are often based on small segments of nonverbal behaviors.
- Behavioral familiarity
- Knowledge about the sender's or receiver's normal patters of behavior.
- Vocalics
- Interpretation of voice and speech.
- Minimax principal of dating
- Maximize attraction while minimizing chances of rejection.
- Halo effect
- What is beautiful is assumed to be good.
- Propinquity
- Relative distance from center of power; closer to leader = more power.
- Personal space zone
- 2 to 4 feet; reserved for close friends or introductions.
- Monochronic time
- People do one thing at a time, concentrate on job, take time commitments seriously, low context and need information,emphasis on compartmentalization of functions and people, Western cultures.
- Display rules
- Rules learned in childhood to help manage and modify emotional expressions based on the situation.
- Even spacing
- People arrange themselves so they can have the most personal space possible.
- Informational familiarity
- Deals with background information and knowledge gathered from past interactions with a particular sender or receiver.
- Power
- Ability to influence others
- Metaperceptions
- Individual's perception of another's perception of him/her.
- Stimulus overload
- People ensure that no one can easily invade their field of vision, even if physical space is being violated.
- Masking
- Flight response; privacy seeker hinders access of others to self.
- Chronemics
- How people use and perceive time.
- Dividing space
- Tendency to defend an area of space as our exclusive territory.
- Intimate space zone
- 18 inches to 2 feet; reserved only for those very close to us.
- Self identity
- Constituted by looking both at self and other's perceptions of you, and evaluating.
- Primary effects
- Impressions we initially have of someone.
- Polychronic time
- People do many things at once, are highly distractable and subject ti interruptions, committed to people and relationships, Eastern Europe, Latin America.
- Public space zone
- Beyond 12 feet; strangers or public speech
- Ekman's neuro-cultural theory
- Innate neural links between emotional states and specific facial muscles
- Agreed value model
- Those with valued traits show preferences for those who are similarly high on valued traits.