Interpersonal Communication Test 1 Notecards

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The tendency to attribute others behaviors to internal causes rather then the social or environmental forces affecting them.

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Fundamental Attribution Error

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In cases where our actions result in noteworthy success, either professional or personal, we typically take the credit for the success by making an internal attribution.

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Self-Serving Bias

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Our primary compulsion during initial interactions is reducing uncertainty about our conversational partners by gathering enough information about them that their communication is rendered predictable and explainable.

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Uncertainty Reduction Theory

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The information we have about different types of personalities and the ways in which traits cluster together.

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Implicit Personality Theories

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A general and global impression of a person that's wither positive or negative.

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Gestalt

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A tendency to place extra emphasis on the first information we take in about the person.

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Primacy Effect

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The tendency to positively interpret nearly anything someone says or does because we have a positive Gestalt of them.

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Halo Effect

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The tendency to negatively interpret nearly anything someone says or does because we have a negative Gestalt of them.

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Horn Effect

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Perceptually categorize people into a social group and then evaluate them based on information we have in our mental schemata.

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Stereotyping

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When we feel into others thoughts and emotions making an attempt to identify with them.

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Empathy

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Social Science

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The scientific study of the mental, behavioral, and relational actions of human beings.

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Linear Communication Model

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Communication is an activity that only flows one direction

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Interactive Communication Model

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Communication as a one way process, but is also influenced by feed back and fields of experience

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Transactional Communication Model

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Communication is not linear but multidirectional

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Interpersonal Communication

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Dynamic form of communication between two or more people

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I-thou

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View someone as another person

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I-It

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View other person as an object

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Impersonal Communication

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exchanges that have a negligible perceived impact on our thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and relationships

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Self-presentation goals

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Goals you have to present yourself in certain ways so that others perceive you as being a particular type of person.

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Instrumental Goals

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Practical Goals you want to achieve through a particular interpersonal encounter

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Relationship goals

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Building, Maintaining, or terminating bonds with others

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Meta-communication

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Communication about Communication

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Communication Skills

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Repeatable behaviors that allow you to improve the quality of your interpersonal encounters

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Interpersonal Relationships

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Emotional, Mental, Physical involvements that you form with others through communication

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Self

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A combo of Self-awareness, Self-concept, and self-esteem.

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Self-Awareness

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Ability to step outside yourself

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Social comparison

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Observing and assigning meaning to others behavior and comparing it to yours

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Self-Concept

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Overall Perception of who you are

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Looking Glass Self

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Self-impact labeling has on our self concept

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Self-Esteem

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Overall value that we assign to ourselfs

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Self-discrepancy Theory

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Self-Esteemed determined by how you compare to two mental standards, Ideal Self and Ought Self

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Ought Self

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Person others expect you to be

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Secure Attachment Style

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Perception that love is dependable, desirable, and predictable

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Anxious Attachment Style

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Received only limited attention. Desire to be loved and an inability to trust love.

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Avoident Attachment Style

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Love only causes pain and unhappiness

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Individualistic Culture

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Focus on themselves and family. Highest good is individual success

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Collectivistic Culture

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Goals of group over individual

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Social Penetration Theory

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Self as "onion-skin structure" consisting of layers

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Relational Dialectics

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Comparing impulses between ourselves and our feelings towards others

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Perception

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Selecting, Organizing, and interpreting information from our senses

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Selection

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First step of perception. Focusing attention on certain sights or smells in our environment

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Salience

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Degree to which particular people or aspects of their communication attract our attention

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Organization

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Second step of perception. Structure information you have taken in into a coherent pattern

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Punctuation

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Organize in Chronological Order

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Interpretation

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Assigning meaning to the in formation we have selected

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Schemata

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mental structures containing information defining concepts characteristics as well as those characteristics interrelationships

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Attributions

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Explanations for others comments or behaviors

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Actor observer effect

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tendency for people to make external attributions regarding their own behavior

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ingroupers

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people fundamentally similar to us

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outgroupers

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people not fundamentally similar to us

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personality

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an individuals way of thinking, feeling, and acting based on traits they posses.

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Interpersonal Impressions

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Mental pictures of who people are and how we feel about them

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Positivity bias

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Gestalts are more likely to be positive then negative

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Negativity Affect

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Place emphasis on the negative information we receive about others

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Algebraic Impressions

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Carefully evaluating each new thing we learn about a person

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Emotion

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An intense reaction to an event that involves interpreting the meaning of the event

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emotion-sharing

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talk about emotional experiences with our relationship partners

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emotional contagion

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When an emotion spreads from one person to the next

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Primary Emotions

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Emotions that involve unique and consistent behavioral displays

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Blended emotions

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When an event triggers two or more primary emotions

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feelings

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Short term emotional reactions to events that generate only limited arousal

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Moods

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low-intensity states

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Display Rules

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Rules about emotions that a culture has agreed on

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Emotional Intelligence

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The ability to interpret your own and others emotions accurately

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Emotion Management

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Attempts to influence which emotions you have, when you have them, and your experience and expressions of them

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Suppression

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Inhibiting thoughts, arousal, and outward behavioral displays of emotion

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Venting

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Allowing emotions to dominate or thoughts and explosively expressing them

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Counter Avoidance

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Avoiding people, places, or events that would provoke unwanted emotions

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counter Structuring

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Intentionally avoiding certain topics to avoid experiencing unwanted emotions

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Attention Focus

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devoting attention only to aspects of an event that you know will not provoke any unwanted emotions

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Deactivation

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desensitizing yourself to emotional experiences

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Reappraisal

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Changing how you think about the meaning of emotion-eliciting situations

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Passion

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Blend of Surprise and Joy

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Chronic Hostility

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Suppressing anger all the time leaving yourself in a constant state of arousal and negative thinking

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Catharsis

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Openly expressing your emotions enables you to purge them

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Jefferson Strategy

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Count slowly to 10 when your angry before you say something

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Supportive Communication

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Sharing messages that express emotional support and offer personal assistance