Mid Term Study Guide

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Active Perception

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Perception that occurs because you seek out specific information through intentional observation and questioning.

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"people watching"

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Passive Perception

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Perception that occurs without conscious effort, simply in response to one's surroundings

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See, hear, smell, taste and feel things

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Aggressive

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Expressing one's interests while denying the rights of others by blaming, judging, and evaluating other people.

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Selfish; blaming, judging

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Androgynous

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Having a combo of both feminine and male traits

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Gender

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Socially learned and reinforced characteristics that include one's biological sex and psychological characteristics

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Asynchronous

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A message that is not read, heard, or seen exactly when it is sent; there is a time delay between the sending of the message and its receipt.

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Email, voicemail... etc

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Bypassing

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Confusion caused by the fact that the same word can mean different things to different people.

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That's so Gay

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Malapropism

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Confusion of one word or phrase for another that sounds similar to it

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subscription vs. prescription

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Gender Communication

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Men often communicate to establish report; women communicate to establish rapport

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Communication Channels

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Concrete

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see a word's referent or touch it, or smell it, taste it, or hear it

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Connotative meaning

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Personal and subjective meaning of a word

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creates feelings

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Context

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Physical and psychological environment for communication

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decode

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to interpret ideas, feelings, and thoughts that have been translated into a code

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opposite of encoding

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encoding

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to translate ideas, feelings, and thoughts into code

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noise

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anything literal or psychological that interferes with accurate reception of a message

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Culture Shock

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feelings of stress and anxiety a person experiences when encountering a culture different from his or her own.

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Direct perception checking

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asking for confirmation from observed the person of an interpretation or a perception about him or her

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emotional contagion

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mimic the emotions of others

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Empathy

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Emotional reaction that is similar to the one being experienced by another person

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Enculturation

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The process of transmitting a group's culture from one generation to the next

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Ethics

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The beliefs, values, and moral principals by which a person determines what is right or wrong

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Ethnicity

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Social classification based on nationality, religion, language, and ancestral heritage, shared by a group of people who also share a common geographical origin.

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External noise

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distractions that take your focus away from the message

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Halo effect

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Attributing a variety of positive qualities to those you like

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Information Triage

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process of evaluating and sorting out information

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Interpersonal communication

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distinctive, transnational, form of human communication involving mutual influence, usually for the purpose of managing relationships.

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Listening

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process of selecting, attending to, creating meaning from, remembering, and responding to verbal and nonverbal messages.

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55% of college student time spent listening

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Message

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written, spoken, and unspoken elements of communication to which people assign meaning

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Meta- communication

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Verbal or nonverbal communication about communication

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Motivation

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Internal state of readiness to respond to something

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perception

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process of experiencing the world and making sense out of what you experience

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personality

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set of enduring behavioral characteristics and internal predispositions for reacting to your environment

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Polarization

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description and evaluation of what you observe in terms of extremes such as good or bad, old or new, beautiful or ugly

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Remembering

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process of recalling information

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Sapir- Whorf hypothesis

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suggests that language shapes our culture and culture shapes our language

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Selecting

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Process of choosing one sound while sorting through various

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selective exposure

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tendency to put ourselves in situations that reinforce our attitudes, beliefs, values, or behaviors

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Selective recall

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process that occurs when we remember things we want to remember and forget or repress things that are unpleasant, uncomfortable, or unimportant

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Self- awareness

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a person's conscious understanding of who he or she is.

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Self- fulfilling prophecy

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

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Self- serving bias

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Tendency to perceive our own behavior as more positive than others' behavior

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Self- talk

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telling yourself you can do something.. or giving yourself a pep talk

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Self- worth

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

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Selective Perception

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occurs when we see, hear, or make sense of the world around us based on a host of factors such as our personality, beliefs, attitudes, likes, dislikes, hopes, fears and cultures.

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Shyness

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behavioral tendency not to talk or interact with others

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Social information processing theory

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theory that suggests people can communicate relational and emotional messages via the internet, although such messages take longer to express without nonverbal cues

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stereotyping

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to place a person or group of persons into an inflexible, all- encompassing category

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third culture

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common ground established when people from separate cultures create a third, "new," more comprehensive and inclusive culture.

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Value

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enduring concept of good and bad, right and wrong.