Real List Of Terms

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Channel

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Medium through which message passes

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Cognitive complexity

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

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Cognitive conservatism

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The tendency to see and attend to information that conforms to an existing self-concept

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Decode

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The process in which a receiver attaches meaning to a message

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Dyad

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Two individuals communicating. The interaction may or may not be interpersonal

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Encode

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The process of putting thoughts into symbols, mostly common words

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Ediated communication

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Communication between individuals via technological channel.

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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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Self-monitoring

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

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Self-concept

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The relatively stable set of perceptions that an individual holds of himself or herself. Its like the idea or mental image that you have of yourself.

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Self-esteem

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The paprt of self-concept that involves an individual's evaluation of his or her self-worth. Its like the confidence that you have in your own worth or abilities

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Self-disclosure

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The act of deliberately revealing information about one self that is significant and would not be known normally by others.

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Cliche Communication

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Ordinary communication. Its the first level of self-disclosure. Ex:Weather- Man its hot outside

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Peak communication

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Highest level of communication that you will only reach with extremely close people. Ex: Spouse, long term bestfriend

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Johari Window

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A model that describes the relationship of self-disclosure

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Identity management

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

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Self-fulfilling prophecy

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An expectation of the event, followed by behaviors based on the expectation, that makes the outcome more likely to happen than would have been the case otherwise

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Introverts

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Value alone time. Dislike being in social situations surrounded by a lot of people.

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Extroverts

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Dislike being alone. They crave social situations where they will be surrounded by people. Dont like to do things on their own.

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Saving face

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To avoid disgrace, humiliation, and embarrassment

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Stereotyping

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Categorizing individuals according to a set of characteristics assumed to belong to all members of a group

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Punctuation

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The process of determining the casual order of events

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Ethnocentrism

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The attitude that one's culture is superior to others

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Attribution

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The process of attaching meaning to behavior

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Empathy

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The ability to understand someone else's feelings

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Emotional contagion

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The process of which emotions are being transferred from one person to another

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Reappraisal

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Rethinking the meaning of emotionally charged events in ways that will alter their emotional impact

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Rumination

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Dwelling persistently on negative thoughts that, in turn, can intensify the negative feeling

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Self-talk

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The nonvocal process of thinking; sometimes referred to as intrapersonal communication

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Semantic rules

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

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Equivocal language

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Statements that have more than one meaning

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Linguistic relativism

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The notiong that the worldview of a culture is shaped and reflected by the language its memebers speak

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Abstraction

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Language that is vague and general rather than specific and concrete

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Affiliation

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Speech that can build up and demonstrate solidarity with others

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Convergence

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The process of adapting one's speechstyle to math others

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Nonverbal communnication

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Messages expressed by nonlinguistic terms(such as volume, rate, pitch, snort, sigh, body language, facial expressions and so on)

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Emblems

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Deliberate nonverbal behaviors with precise meaning that are known virtually by all the memebrs of a cultural group

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Microexpressions

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Expressions that happen quickly and are difficult to detect

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Paralanguage

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Nonlinguistic mean of vocal expression: rate, tone, pitch, vocalized pause

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Proxemics

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The study of how people and animals use interpersonal space and distance

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Polychronic

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An approach to the use of time that emphasizes flexibility and pursuing multiple tasks.

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Monochronic

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Behavior emphasizing punctuality, shedules, and one task at a time.