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Interpersonal Communication Vocab
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Interpersonal Communication Vocab
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1. Speaking before you think - blurting out loud - tendency to transmit messages without considering their consequences.

2. Process of attaching meaning to behavior.

3. Masculine and feminine traits.

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

5. Used to describe the medium through which messages are exchanged - E.g. face to face - phones - email - instant messages

6. Contains a message with more than one meaning. The words are highly abstract or have meanings private to the speaker alone.

7. Provides a better way to check and to share your interpretations. Has three parts.

8. Fields of experience that help them make sense of others behavior.

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

10. Culturally understood substitutes for verbal expressons - E.g. Nodding head up and down for yes/no

11. Person whose evaluations are especially influential.

12. 1. Has the self as subject 2. is intentional 3. is directed at another person 4. is honest 5. is revealing 6. contains information generally available from other sources 7. gains intimate nature from context in which expressed

13. The relatively stable set of perceptions you hold of yourself.

14. Used with people who are emotionally close to us - and then mostly in private situation. Letting someone this close is a sign of trust. 18 inches.

15. Taking a positive approach to the term; presenting and defending positions on issues while attacking positions taken by others.

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

17. Distinguishes the study of touching.

18. Tendency to seek information that conforms to an existing self-concept.

19. Messages expressed by nonlinguistic means.

20. Describes the study of how humans use and structure time.

21. Expresses how you feel about the other person.

22. Distance between communicators can have a powerful effect on how we regard and respond to others. 4 feet to 12 feet.

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

24. Involve our attaching meaning to first-order things or situations.

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