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Interpersonal Communication Vocab
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1. Verbal and nonverbal ways in which we act to maintain our own presenting image and image of others.

2. Any interaction between more than two people.

3. Provides another way to interact by electronics - E.g. email - texting - IM - social networking - and blogging

4. Physical traits - personality characteristics - attitudes - aptitudes; image you want to present to the world

5. Messages that we perceive as challenging the image we want to project

6. Evaluating ourselves in terms of how we compare with others.

7. Part of self-concept that involves evaluations of self-worth.

8. Speaking before you think - blurting out loud - tendency to transmit messages without considering their consequences.

9. Process of attaching meaning to behavior.

10. Reciprocal pattern of climate patterns. Can be positive or negative.

11. Describes the way a message is spoken; vocal rate - pronunciation - pitch - tone - volume and emphasis.

12. The tendency to form an overall positive impression a person on the basis of the positive characteristics.

13. When we judge ourselves in the most generous terms possible.

14. Making comments totally unrelated to what the other person was just saying.

15. A way to offer thoughts - feelings - and wants without judging the listener.

16. Deliberate attempt to hide or misrepresent the truth.

17. Distinguishes the study of touching.

18. A group of ambiguous gestures; fidgeting - movements in which one part of the body grooms - messages - rubs - hold - pinches - picks or otherwise manipulates another part.

19. Public image; the way we want to appear to others.

20. Plays a role in virtually every interpersonal act.

21. Messages expressed by nonlinguistic means.

22. First step to perception; where data we will attend to.

23. First type of defense-arousing message; judges other person usually in a negative way

24. Occurs when one person begins to speak before the other is through making a point.

25. Popular approach for offering constructive criticism. To sandwich your issue of concern between two positive comments.

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