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Venting
Allowing emotions to dominate thoughts and explosively expressing them
Suppression
Inhibiting thoughts. arousal and outward behaviors
Reappraisal
Actively changing how you think about the meaning of emotion eliciting situations, so that their emotional impact is changed
Passion
Blended Emotion
Consists of surprise and joy
Coupled with feelings of excitement, amazement, and sexual attraction
Passion Facts
Early Stages
Different from love
Longer in relationship = less passion towards partner
Warm afterglow
Anger
Occurs when you are blocked from attaining an important goal from an improper action of an external agent
Anger Facts
Negative Primary emotion
Most intense and destructive emotion
Common
Causes perceptual errors
Primal- I want to hurt you bad
Managing anger
Most frequent strategy = suppression
Outcome of Consistent Suppression
Mount Vesuvius blow up
Chronic Hostility
Chronic Hostility
A near constant state of arousal and negative thoughts
Exists on a low-high contunuum
Bubbling under the surface
High Hostility People
Waking hours in state of thinly veiled anger
Thoughts dominated by negative
Negative belief about human nature
Self involved and ungenerous
Grief
Intense sadness following a substantial loss of something or someone important to you.
Job/ pet/ talent/ physical capabilities
Grief Facts
Enormously taxing
Repeatedly triggered by experiences linked to loss
Never completely OVER it
Emotion Sharing
Most effective strategy for coping with grief
Largest Misconception with Jealousy
Not related to self esteem
Etymology/ Word Origin
Jealous is derived from the same greek root word as zealous
Zealous= Fervent devotion to a person or object
Definition of Jealousy
Protective reaction to perceived threat to a valued relationship
Combination of negative emotions-
Hurt Anger Fear
Envy (Invidere)
To look upon with malice
Comes from wanting something you don't have
Cognitive Jealousy
Thoughts, worries
Suspicions about an "ex"
Behavioral Jealousy
Actions
Checking email account or constant facebook checking
Disruptive to your life is abnormal
Emotional Jealousy
Emotional physiological reaction
Occurs independent of conscious appraisal threat
2 Factors Necessary for Jealousy to Occur
Whether or not issue is self defining ( Good athlete, attractive, etc)
Whether or not there is a discrepancy between self and "ideal" self
Self Reliance (Jealousy)
Continue current activities and stay cool
Most Effective
Self Bolstering
Happy Thoughts
von Trap family song
Least Effecive/ Worst
Selective Ignoring
Minimize or re-evaluate importance
Sequential Influence Techniques
Setting people up with COM moves
Low Balling
Most Effective
No Limiting Conditions/Robust
People are induced to make a decision to purchase an item agreeing at a good deal price, then are informed that low price is no longer available
Comply at higher rate than simply offer higher price
Foot in the Door (FITD)
Person gets target to agree to a small request.
Then asks someone for larger request
Effects kind of person who helps someone out
Door in the Face (DITF)
Opposite of FITD
Person tries to get a target to comply with a huge request then attempts to get the target to comply with a significantly smaller request
Facts about FITD/DITF
Both have demonstrated higher compliance rates than one-step techniques
Limiting Influence Technique Conditions
Size
FITD- Initial request must be large enough to induce commit
Foot has to be big enough to keep door open

DITF- Initial request must be large enough to ensure rejection but not absurd
Time
Defining Emotion (Book)
Intense reaction to an event that involves interpreting the meaning of the event, becoming physiologically aroused, labeling the experience as emotional, attempting to mange our reaction, and communicating this reaction in the form of emo displays
Five Features of Emotion
Reactive- Triggered by perception of outside events
Physiological Arousal
Arousal of Emotion
Constrained by norms
Reflected by verbal/non-verbal displays
Emotion Contagion
Experience of the same emotion spreads from one person to others
EX. Telling family about job and positivity spreads
Feelings
Short term emotional reactions to events that generate only limited arousal
Small Emotion
No management of feelings
Moods
Low intensity states
Not caused by specific events
Last longer than feelings/emotions
good mood = positive impressions of others
Six Emotions and High Intensity Counterpart
Surprise- Amazement
Joy- Ecstasy
Disgust- Loathing
Anger- Rage
Fear- Terror
Sadness- Grief
Blended Emotions
An event may trigger two or more primary emotions simultaneously
Conflicting Emotions
Teaching son karate move, who perfects it on his younger brother.
Joy because his son is improving in karate
Anger because the brother shouldn't be hitting each other
Forces Shaping Emotion
Culture- Display rules (China v Mexico
Gender- Across cultures women report more sadness fear shame and guilt then men
Men= anger and hostility
Personality- High Extroversion vs. High neuroticism
Rational Emotive Behavior Theory
Recall when you were upset
Identify irrational beliefs about self
Consider change in (-) outcomes
Critically challenge beliefs
Identify more accurate beliefs about self and others
Emotional Intelligence
The broader ability to interpret your own and others' emotions accurately and to use this information to manage emotions, communicate them, and solve problems
Emotion Management
Involves attempts to influence which emotions you have, when you have them, and how you experience and express them
Most important for effective IPC
Encounter Avoidance
Involves staying away from people places or activities that will provoke emotions that you don't want to experience
Encounter Structuring
Intentionally avoiding specific topics that you know will provoke unwanted emotion during encounters with others
Attention Focus
Intentionally devoting your attention only to aspects of an event or encounter that you know will not provoke an undesired emotion
Deactivation
Systematically desensitizing yourself to emotional experience
Can lead to depression
Reappraisal
Actively changing how you think about the meaning of emotion-eliciting situations so that their emotional impact is changed
Asychronicity
We don't interact in real time but instead exchange messages that can be read at any time
Invisibility
Without wharing a physical context with the people whom we're communicating
Feel distant from the consequences of our messages
Catharsis
Openly expressing your emotions enables you to purge them
Venting can boost anger
Jefferson Strategy
Counting to 10 or 100 before speaking or acting when already angered
Interpersonal Competence
Consistently communicating in ways that meet three criteria:
Appropriateness- Follow norms
Effectiveness-Achieve goals
Ethics-Treats people fairly
Communication Skills
Repeatable goal-directed behaviors and behavioral patterns that you routinely practice in your interpersonal encounters and relationships
Appropriateness
The degree to which your communication matches situational relational and cultural expectations regarding how people should communicate
High Self Monitors
People who are highly sensitive to appropriateness and adapt their communication accordingly
Low Self Monitors
Not sensitive to appropriateness. Believe that people should communicate the same way regardless of the situation.
Effectiveness
Ability to use communication to accomplish interpersonal goals:
Self Presentation
Instrumental
Relational
Ethics
Communication decisions driven by a set of standards regarding moral behavior.
Able to be Appropriate and Effective but not Ethical
Three Kinds of Messages
Expressive
Conventional
Rhetorical
Expressive
One purpose: to convey what you think and feel so that other know exactly what you think and feel.
"How's it going"
Conventional
Emphasize the achievement of instrumental goals in a situation.
"Everyone is expecting me as group leader to get this project done"
Rhetorical
Signal attempt to answer the question "how can I best talk about this situation so that the problems we're facing are solved."
Blend all three ingredients of COM Competence
Four Characteristics of Rhetorical Messages
Address Situation in neutral and non-judgemental ways
Express empathy
Offer specific workable solutions
Open doors to negotiation
Online Disinhibition
People sharing personal information more openly and directly during online interactions
Invisible to others online
Flaming
Inappropriate aggressive messages that people typically wouldn't convey face to face
Incompetent Communication
Intercultural Competence
The ability to communicate appropriately, effectively, and ethically with people from diverse backgrounds
World Mindedness
Demonstrate acceptance and respect toward other cultures' beliefs, values, and customs
Ethnocentrism
Belief that one's own cultural beliefs, attitudes, values and practices are superior to those of others
Attributional Complexity
Other people's behaviors have multiple and complicated causes
Communication Apprehension
Fear or anxiety associated with real or anticipated communication with another person or persons
Communication Plan
Mental maps that describe exactly how communication encounters will unfold
Plan Actions
The moves you think you'll perform in an encounter that causes you anxiety
Plan Contingencies
The messages you think your communication partner or partners will say during the encounter and how you will respond
Shyness
Tendency to be timid and reserved and to talk less when in the presence of others
Loneliness
Feelings of social isolation and lack of companionship
Defensive Communication
Incompetent messages delivered in response to suggestions, criticism or perceived slights
Dogmatic Messages
A person dismisses suggestions for improvements or Constructive Crit. refuses to consider views and continues to believe that his or her behaviors are acceptable
Superiority Messages
The speaker suggests that he or she possesses special knowledge ability or status far beyond that of the other IND.
Indifference Messages
A person implies that the suggestion or criticism being offered is irrelevant or unimportant
Control Messages
A person seeks to squelch criticism by controlling the other individual or the encounter
Verbal Aggression
The tendency to attack others' self-concepts rather than their positions on topics of conversation
Denigrate others' character abilities or physical appearance rather than constructively discussing different points of view.