Interpersonal Communication

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Cognitive Conservatism

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The tendancy to seek and attend to information that conforms to an exsisting self-concept.

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Self-Talk

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The non-vocal process of thinking. Occurs as a person interprets anothers behavior.

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Mixed emotions

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Complex emotions that are combinations of primary emotions.

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High-Context Cultures

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Cultures that avoid direct use of language, relying on the context of a message to convey meaning

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Transactional Model

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A characterization of communication as the simultaneous sending and recieving of messages in an ongoing, irreversible process

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Linear Model

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A characterization of communication as a one-way event in which a message flows from sender to reciever

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Environments

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The field of experiences that lead a person to make sense of anothers behavior. Consist of physical characteristics, personal experience, relational history, and cultural background

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Communication

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A continuous, transactional process involving participants who occupy different but overlapping environments and create relationships through the exchange of messages, many of which are affected by external, physiological and psychological noice.

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Impersonal Communication

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Treating people like objects rather than individuals

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Metacommunication

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messages that refer to other messages: communicating about communication

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Affinity

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The degree to which persons like or appreciate one another

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Respect

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The social need to be held in esteem by others.

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Control

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The degree to which the parties in a relationship have the power to influence one another

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Communication Competence

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The ability to accomding ones personal goals in a manner that maintains a relationship on terms that are acceptable to all parties.

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Cognitive Complexity

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The ability to construct a variaty of frameworks for viewing an issue

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Sender

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The creator of a message

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Significant Others

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

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Reflected Appraisal

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The theory that a persons self concept matches the way the person believes others regaurd him or her.

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Identity Management

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The communication strategies people use to influence how others view them.

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Parallel Conflict Style

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A relational conflict style in which the approach of the partners varie from one situation to another.

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Fallacy of Causation

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The irrational belief that emotions are caused by others and nothing my the person who has them.

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Emotional Contagion

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The process by which emotions are transferred from one person to another.

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Presenting Self

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The image you present to others it may be identical or different from the percieved and ideal selves.

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Social Comparison

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Evaluation of oneself in terms of or by comparison to others.

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Channel

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The medium through which a message passes from sender to reciever

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Receiver

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One who notices and attends to a message

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Convergence

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The process of adapting ones speech style to match that of others with whom the communicator wants to identify.

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Fallacy of Shoulds

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The irrational belief that people should behave in the most desirable way.

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Fallacy of Catastropic Expectations

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The irrational belief that the worst possible outcome will occur

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Debilitative Emotions

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Emotions that prevent a person from functioning effectively

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Attribution

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The process of attaching meaning to behavior

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Syntatic Rules

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Rules that goven the ways symbols can be arranged as opposed to the meaning of those words

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Fallacy of Approval

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The irrational belief that it is vital to win the approval of virtually everyone a communicator deals with.

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Encodes

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The process of putting thoughts into symbols, most commonly words.

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Noise

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External, Physiological, and Psychological distractions that interfere with the accurate transmission and reception of a message.

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Fallacy of Perfection

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The irrational belief that a worthwhile communicatior should be able to handle every situation with complete confidence and skill

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Complimentary Conflict Style

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A relational conflict style in which partners use different but mutually reinforcing behavoirs

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Perceived Self

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The person we beleive ourself to be in moments of candor. It may be identical with or different from presenting self.

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Decodes

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The process in which a reciever attactes meaning to a message

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Symmetrical Conflict Style

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A relational conflict style in which both partners use the same tactic.

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Facilitative Emotions

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Emotions that contribute to effective functioning

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Equivocal Language

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Ambiguous language that has two or more equally plausible meanings

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Self-Monitoring

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The process of attending to ones behavior and using these observations to shape the way one behaves

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Relative Words

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Words that gain their meaning by comparison

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Primary Emotions

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Simple (basic) emotions

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Semantic Rules

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Rules that govern the meaning of language opposed to its structure.

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Divergence

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Speaking mannerisms that emphasize a communicators differences from others.

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Emotive Language

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Language that conveys the senders attitude rather than simply offers an objective description.

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Message

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Information send from a sender to a reciever.

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Self-Serving Bias

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The tendancy to interpret and explain information in a way that cast the perceier in the most favorable manner

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Perception Checking

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A three part method for varifying the accuracy of interpretation, including a description of sense data, two possible interpretations, and a request for confirmation of the interpretations.

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Self-Concept

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The relativly stable set of perceptions each individual hold of himself or herself.

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Low-Context Cultures

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Cultures that use language primarily to express thoughts, feelings, and ideas as clearly and logically as possible

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Self-Serving Prophecy

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A prediction or expectation of an event that makes the outcome more likely to occur than otherwise have been the case

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Linguistic Determinism

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The theory that a culture's world view is unavoidably shaped and reflected by the language its members speak.

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Linguistic Relativism

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A more moderate form of linguistic determinism that argues that language exerts a strong influence on the perceptions of the people who speak it.