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Two things that determine the effectiveness of your listening and responding skills
1. Your intentions and attitudes
2. The phrasing of your response- reflect acceptance, respect, interest, liking and desire
Common responses to asking "why?"
Defensive
Responses obtained by asking open-ended vs closed-ended questions
Get more information/details
Rogers’ study: evaluative, supporting, probing, and understanding statements
comprise 80% of statements, 20% are of no real importance
Definition of paraphrasing
restatement of a text or passages, using other words.
5 most common types of responses and situations they are most appropriate
Evaluative- judgment, used when asked to make a value judgment or to disclose personal values
Interpretive- leads to insight, can be used as form of confrontation
Supportive- conveys acceptance
Probing- helps to provide a clear definition of a problem
Understanding- conveys interest and accurate understanding, encourages the sender to elaborate
In a conflict of interest, what determines behavior
Personal wants and needs determine our goals
Our interests are the potential benefits to be gained by achieving our goals
5 basic strategies for managing conflict
(withdrawing)
(forcing)
(smoothing)
(compromising)
(problem solving/negotiating)
When to use each of the 5 basic strategies for managing conflict
When goal is of little importance:
Withdraw
Smooth

When goal is of high importance:
Force
Compromise
Problem solve
Pathos
* Qualities of a fictional non-fictional work that evoke sorrow or pity. Over-emotionalism can be the result of an excess of pathos.
* Excess can result in overemotionalism
"You don't understand!!! They killed my dog!!!"
What is need
necessity of survival
definition of conflict of interest
when the actions taken by person A to achieve his/her goals prevent, block, or interfere with the actions taken by person B to achieve his/her goals
What is the most common type of response?
Evaluating
Major components of anger
-Usually a defense against something
-Occurs when we don’t get something we want; we become frustrated, thwarted, or attacked
-Contains a sense of righteousness and belief that one’s personal rights have been violated; believe we are right and the other is irrational
-Narrowing of perceptual focus and priorities; all attention focused on the person and behavior we are angry with
-It is demanding; insists that we get our way
-Physiological arousal that demands physical action; fight or flight
8 Major Functions of Anger
-Provides energy and increases strength
-Disrupts ongoing behavior by making us agitated and impulsive; interferes with our ability to process information and pay attention
-Easy to express negative feelings and give negative feedback
-Defense against being vulnerable
-Makes us aggressive and antagonistic
-Signal that an event has provoked us or that something frustrating is taking place
-Maintain a sense of virtue and righteousness
-Intimidate others; source of interpersonal power and influence
Rules for Managing Anger Constructively
1.Recognize and acknowledge that you are angry
2.Clarify the other’s intent
3.Decide what to do with your anger
4.Express your anger directly when appropriate
5.Analyze and reflect on your management of anger
steps before deciding what to do with your anger
1.Recognize and acknowledge that you are angry
2.Clarify the other’s intent
Difference between assertive and aggressive behaviors
aggressive is aimed at hurting someone
Constructive Anger
-Feel more energy, motivation, challenge, excitement

-Other person feels friendship, gratitude, goodwill, and concern
Destructive Anger
-When you express anger in a way that creates dislike, hatred, frustration, and a desire for revenge

-When you repress anger that creates irritability, depression, insomnia, physiological problems
catharsis
release of pent up emotion
difference between fear and anxiety
Fear exists when a person is afraid and knows what he/she is afraid of

Anxiety exists when a person is afraid but does not know what he/she is afraid of
definition of shyness
Shyness is excessive caution in interpersonal relationships
steps to managing/combating shyness
1.Understanding Your Shyness
-Pinpoint which people and situations cause shyness

2.Building Your Self-Esteem
-Primarily lies with evaluation of self-worth

3.Improving Your Social Skills
-Utilize skills in book, active and attentive listener
difference between stereotype and prejudice
Stereotypes: are beliefs that associate a whole group of people with certain traits

Prejudice - unjustified negative attitude toward a person based solely on that individual’s membership in a group other than one’s own (to prejudge)

Stereotyping can lead to prejudice
Fundamental attribution error
attribution of negative behavior on the part of a member of a group to dispositional (personal) factors and attribution of positive behavior to situational factors

Example: When a member of a minority group acts a certain way, someone might think, “that’s the way those people are.”
Out-group homogeneity effect
a common assumption that the members of out-groups are quite similar while realizing that members of in-groups are quite diverse

Example: For a white person to think that all Hispanic people are alike
Ethnocentrism
the tendency to regard your own ethnic group, culture, or nation as better or more “correct” than others
Confirmation bias
is a tendency for people to favor information that confirms their preconceptions or hypotheses regardless of whether the information is true.
2 ways to combat shyness
1. understanding shyness
2. improving social skills