ISU Psych 110
Terms
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- What is nonverbal behavior
- behaviors that aren't words
- importance of nonverbal behavior
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non verbal behavior is far more important than verbal
especially when verbal and nv don't match - Ekman & Frisen categories of nv behavior
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illustrator
adaptor
emblems
regulators - illustrator
- helps indicate verbal and do not mean much on their own
- adaptor
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manipulations
(itch, cigarette) - emblems
- gesture (has its own meaning)
- regulators
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regulates in conversation
(eyebrows, i.e. tells the other when to talk) -
interpersonal space
Arab males vs. US males - need to ask professor
- gestures
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vague on review sheet
just study gestures in general...? - social schema
- patterns of thought that organize social experiences
- internal vs. external attributions
- is the cause of an event because of something we did (internal) or something that had nothing to do with you (external)
- Fundamental Attribution Error
- we place the blame of bad things on external factors and the cause of good things on internal factors
- Stanley Milgram's research
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- cross cultural differences in ingroup and outgroup relationships
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individualist groups - more ingroups with lower attachment levels, less distinction between groups
collectivist groups are the opposite. - conformity
- not given in notes
- components of communication
- signals, messages, channels, encoder, decoder
- differences between intercultural and intraculutal communication
- intracultural usually goes much smoother.
- high context cultures vs. low context
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high context - info tied to previous knowledge, relationships, etc. (can be vague)
low context - spell out everything (very specific) -
Intercultural sensitivity
(bennett's 6 stages) -
(ethnocentric)
1denial
2defense
3minimization
(ethnorelative)
4acceptance
5adaptation
6integration - encoding vs. decoding
- vague on review sheet
- cultural influences / impact on encoding and decoding
- the encoder uses their own cultural rules to make the message and then the decoder uses their own different cultural rules to decode it which can lead to confusion
- what is accultration
- being influenced by a second culture
- group accultration vs. individual accultration
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my attempt at a chart...
maintain cultural identity
yes no
contact &
particip. yes integration assimilatio w others? no separation marginilizati - differences in accultrating groups
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mobility
voluntariness
permanence - how traits of new society impact accultration
- looking for an answer
- understanding that each member of a culture adheres to that culture to different extent
- word for word from review
- understanding possible cultural nature of conflicts
- again, word for word from review