Interpersonal

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a representation of what something is and how it works

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model

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anything that causes a loss of information as the information flows from source to destination

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noise

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a model that represents communication as a one way process that flows in one direction, from sender to receiver. They do not capture the dynamism of communication or the active participation of all communicators

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linear model

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a model that represents communication as a feedback process, in which listeners and speakers both simultaneously send and receive messages

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interactive model

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responses to messages, may be verbal nonverbal or both, may be intentional or unintentional

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feedback

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a model of communication as a dynamic process that changes over time and in which particpants assume multiple roles

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transactional role

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impersonal communication in which people are treated as objects or as instrumental to our purposes

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I-it communication

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Fully interpersonal communication in which people acknowledge and deal with each other as unique individuals who meet fully in dialoge

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I-Thou communication

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Communication midway between impersonal and interpersonal communication, in which the other is acknowledged as a human being but not fully engaged as a unique individual

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I-You communication

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a selective, systemic, ongoing process in which unique individuals interact to reflect and build personal knowledge and to create meanings

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interpersonal communication

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taking place within multiple systems that influence what is communicated and what meanings are communicated

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systemic

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an ongoing, continuous, dynamic flow that has no clear-cut beginning or ending and is always evolving and changing

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process

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the content of or denotative information in communication, meanings are literal

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content meaning

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what communication expresses about the relationship between communicators

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relationship meaning

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the branch of philosophy that deals with moral principles and codes of conduct

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ethics

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an abstract, arbitrary, and ambigious representation of a phenomenon

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symbol

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communication about communication

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metacommunication

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communication that is interpresonally effective and appropriate

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interpersonal communication competence

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the ability to perceive people as unique and to differentiate them from social roles and generalazations based on their membership in social groups

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person centeredness

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the ability to understand both your own and another's perspective, beliefs, thoughts and feelings

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dual perspective

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observing and regulating your own behavior

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monitoring

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a multidimensional process that involves forming and acting from social perspectives that arise and evolve in communication with others and ourselves

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self

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one source of social perspectives that people use to define themselves and guide how they think, act, and feel

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particular others

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communication that explicitly tells us who we are by specifically labeling us and reacting to our behaviors

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direct definition

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the process of seeing and thinking about ourselves in terms of the appraisals of us that others reflect

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reflected appraisal

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a person who communicates positively about us and reflects a positive approisal of our self-worth

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uppers

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a person who communicates negatively about us and reflects a negative appraisal of our self worth

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downers

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an extreme form of downer who not only communicates a negative image of us but actually attacks our self concept

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vultures

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a guide to action based on rules for living and identity

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identity scripts

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a pattern of relating instilled by the way a caregiver teaches the child who he or she is, who others are, and how to approach relationships

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attachment style

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a mode of relating that involves confidence in oneself and in relationships. Is instilled by a caregiver who responds in a consistently attentive loving way to a child

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secure attachment style

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a mode of relating instilled by a caregiver in the first bond who communicates to the child in consistently negative, rejecting or even abusive ways

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fearful attachment style

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a mode of relating instilled by a disinterested, rejecting, or abusive caregiver, in which the individual dismisses others as unworthy and thus does not seek close relationships

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dismissive attachment style

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a mode of relating characterized by preoccupation with relationships and inconsistent behavior toward the partner. develops through inconsistent behavior of caregiver

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anxious/ambivalent attachment style

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one source of social perspectives that people use to define themselves and guide how they think, act, and feel

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generalized other

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comparing ourselves with others to form judgements of our own talents, abilities, qualities, and so forth

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social comparison

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an individuals perception of where he or she stops and the rest of the world begins

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ego boundaries

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the act of revealing personal information about ourselves that others are unlikely to discover in other ways

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self-disclosure

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a model of the different sorts of knowledge that affect self-development

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johari window

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self talk that communicates that we are no good, that we can't do something, that we can't change, and so forth

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self sabatage

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the active process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting people, objects, events, situations, and activities

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perception

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knowledge structures that define the clearest or most representative examples of some category

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prototypes

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bipolar mental yardsticks by which we measure people and situations along specific dimensions of judgements

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personal construct

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predictive generalizations about people and situations

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stereotype

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a definition of expected or appropriate sequences of action in a particular settings

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script

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the subjective process of evaluating and explaining perceptions

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interpretation

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an internal account of why something happens or why someone acted a certain way

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attribution

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the tendency to attribute our positive actions and successes to stable, global, internal attribute our negative actions and failures to unstable, specific, external influences beyond our control

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self-serving bias

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overestimating, the internal causes of others behavior and underestimating the external causes

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fundamental attribution error

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beliefs, understandings, practices, and ways to interpret experience that are shared by a group of people

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culture

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the knowledge and perspective shaped by the material, symbolic, and social conditions common to members of a social group

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standpoint

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in our interpretation of experience, the number of constructs used, how abstract they are, and how elaborately they interact to create perceptions

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cognitive complexity

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the ability to feel with another person, to feel what she or he feels

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empathy

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our often unconscious assumptions about what qualities fit together in human personalities

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implicit personality theory

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assuming that we understood what another person thinks or how another person perceives something

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mind reading