Interpersonal Comm Chatp 2

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self

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sum total of whoa perosn is a persons central inner force

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self-concept

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persons subjective description of who he or she is

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attitude

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learned predisposiiton to respond to a person, object, or idea in a favorable or unfavorable way

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belief

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way in which you structure your understanding of reality- what is true and what is false for you

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value

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enduring concept of good and bad, right and wrong

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subjective self-awareness

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ability to differentiate the self form the socail and physical environment

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objective self-awareness

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ability to be the object of ones own thoughts and attention, to be aware of ones state of mind and that one is thinking

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symbolic self-awareness

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uniquely human ability to think about oneself and use language symbols to represent oneself to others

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material self

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concept of self as refelcted in a total of all the tangible things you own.

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social self

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concept of self as reflected in social interactions with others

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spiritual self

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concept of self based on thoughts and intorspections about personal values, moral standards, and beliefs

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looking-glass self

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concept that suggests you learn who you are based on your interactions with others, who refelct your self back to you

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symoblic interaction theory

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theory that people make sens of the world on the basis of their interactions with other people

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androgynous role

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gender role that includes both masculine and feminine qualities

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self-reflexiveness

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ability to think about what you are doing while you are doing it

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psychology

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study of how thinking influences behavior

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personality

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set of ednuring internal predispositions and behavioral characteristics that describe how people react to their environment

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communibiological approach

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perspective that suggests that genetic and biological influences play a major role in influencing communication behavior

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shyness

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behavioral tendency not to talk to interact with other people

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communication apprehension

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fear or anxiety associated with either real or anticipated communication with other people

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willingess to communicate

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general term for the likelihood that an individual will comuicate with others in certain situations

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self worth (self-esteem)

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your evaluation of your worth or value based on your perception of such things as your skills, abilities, talents and apperance

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social comparison

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process of comparing yourself to others who are similar to tyou to measure your worth and value.

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life position

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feeligs of regard for yourself and others as refelcted in your sense of worht and self esteem.

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face

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persons positive perception of himself or herself in interactions with others.

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facework

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using communication to maintain your own posiitve self-perception or to support, reinforce, or challenge someone else's self-perception

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intrapersonal communication

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communicatin within yourself, self-talk

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visuatlization

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technique of imagining that you are performing a particular task in a certain way, poistive visualization can enhance self-esteem

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social support

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expression of empathy and concern for others that is communicated while listening to them and offering positive and encouraging words

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talk therapy

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technique in which a person describes his or her problems and concernts to a skilled listener in order to better understand the emotions and issues that are creating the problems

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strategies for improving your self-esteem

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engage in selftalk, visualize, avoid comparison, reframe appropriately, develop honest relationships, let go of the past, seek support

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social decentering

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cognitive process in which you take into account another persons thoughts, feelings, values, back-ground, and perspective

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specific-other perspective

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perspective that uses information that one can ovserve or imagine about another person to predict that persons behavior.

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generalized-other persepctive

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perspective that uses observed or imagined information about many ppl, or people in general, to predict a persons behavior.

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self-fulfilling prophecy

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prediciotn about future actions that is likely to come true because the person believes that it will come true.

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need for inclusion

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interpersonal need to be included and to include others in social activiites

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need for control

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interpersonal need for some degree of influence in our relationships, as well as the need to be controlled

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need for affection

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interpersonal needs to give receive love support warmth

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communication style

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style that is identifiable by habitual ways in which you communicate with other people

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assertiveness

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tendency to make requests, ask for information and generally pursue your own rights and best interests

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responsiveness

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tendency to be sensitive to the needs of others, including being sympathetic to other's feelings and placing the feelings of others above your own feelings

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self-disclosure

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purposefully provoidng information about yourself to others that they would not learn if you did not tell them

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social penetration model

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model of self-disclosure and relational development that refelcts both depth and breadth of shared information

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self-awareness

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persons conscious understanding of who he or she is

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johari window model

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model of self-disclosure that summarizes how self awareness is influenced by self-disclosure and information about yourself form others

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communication privacy management theory

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theory that suggests that we each manage our own degree of privacy by means of personal boundaries and rules for sharing information

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dyadic effect

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the recirpocal nature of self-disclosure; you disclose to me, and i'll disclose to you.