Comn. 103 Ch. 3 - Interpersonal Communication & The Self

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Benevolent Lie

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a lie that is not considered malicious by the person who tells it

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Equivocation

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a statement that is not false but cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth

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Face

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the image an individual wants to project to the world

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Facework

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actions people take to preserve their own and others' presenting images

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Impression Management

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the communication strategies people use to influence how others view them

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Johari Window

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a model that described the relationship between self-disclosure and self-awareness

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Lie

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a deliberate act of deception

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Perceived Self

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the person we believe ourselves to be in moments of candor; it may be identical with or different from the presenting and desired selves

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Presenting Self

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the image a person presents to others; may be identical to or different from the perceived and desired selves

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Privacy Management

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the choices people make to reveal or conceal information about themselves

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Reference Groups

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groups against which we compare ourselves, thereby influencing our self-concept and self-esteem

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Reflected Appraisal

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the theory that a person's self-concept matches the way the person believes others regard him or her (will.i.am Sesame Street song)

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Self-Concept

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the relatively stable set of perceptions each individual holds of himself or herself

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Self-Disclosure

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the process of deliberately revealing information about oneself that is significant and that would not normally be known to others

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Self-Esteem

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the part of the self-concept that involves evaluations of self-worth

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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

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the causal relationship that occurs when a person's expectations of an event and her or his subsequent behavior based on those expectations make the outcome more likely to occur than would otherwise have been true

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Significant Other

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a person whose opinion is important enough to affect one's self-concept strongly

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Social Comparison

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evaluating oneself in terms of or by comparison to others

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Social Penetration Model

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a model that describes relationships in terms of their breadth and depth

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Perceived Self

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the you behind the curtain, the relative idea of who you are

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Self-Esteem

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the judgement of who you are as a person (high or low)

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You feel uncomfortable as a 6th grader starting middle school, but really good as a senior who is graduating, then back to feeling uncomfortable as a college freshman

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the perceived and presenting selves are dynamic, not stable... give an example of this

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Explicit Communication

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the self-theory that explains why "you" statements often play an impactful role in people's self-concept and self-esteem

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Implicit Communication

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the self-theory that involves verbal and nonverbal messages; often times our interpretations of other's messages may influence our self-concept and self-esteem

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My perception of your perceptions of me may influence my perception of me

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What are the three layers of perception?

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Significant Others

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the people whose perceptions you use to make your own perceptions of yourself

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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

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our own experiences of us will influence our behaviors

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Pygmalion Effect

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other's expectations of us influence our behaviors (positive)

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Golem Effect

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negative expectations = negative results

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Reference Groups

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the people we most frequently compare ourselves to: friends, family, parents, colleagues, classmates, celebrities, athletes

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Manner

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Communicatively Constructing Identities: Goffman - verbal and nonverbal steps that we take towards presenting ourselves

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Appearance

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Communicatively Constructing Identities: Goffman - body endowment and body adornment

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Setting

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Communicatively Constructing Identities: Goffman - Another term for "artifacts": contextual details, car you drive, posters on your wall, laptop you use, etc

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-Reference

-Hyphenation

-Nonverbal Cues

-Naming Practices

-Marked and Unmarked Terms

-Narratives

-Rituals

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other ways to express Communicatively Constructing Identities: Goffman

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when you place a term in front of another term when there is something abnormal or potentially problematic with the term (ex. nurse vs male nurse)

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What is a Marked Term?

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1. Climate

2. Input (how much content is given)

3. Response Opportunity

4. Feedback

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What are the 4 Impactful Factors in the creation of the self?

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Reflected Appraisal

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your self-concept can be seen as a reflection of the messages you've received throughout your life

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Cognitive Conservatism

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the tendency to seek information that conforms to an existing self-concept (people with high self-esteem seek out partners who view them favorably and vice-versa)