Terms For Com 110 Class

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Channel

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Medium through which the message passes

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Cognitive complexity

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

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Dyad

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

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Mediated 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 the accurate transmission and reception of a message

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Self-concept

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The relatively stable set of perceptions that each individual holds of himself or herself. It's like the idea or mental image that you have of yourself.

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Self-esteem

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The part of self-concept that involves an individual's evaluation of his or her self-worth. It's also like the confidence tha one has in one's worth or abilities.

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Self-disclosure

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The act of deliberatly revealing personal information that is signifacnt d would not normally be known by others.

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Self-fulfilling prophecy

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An expectation of an event, followed by behaviors ased on that expectation, that makes the outcome more likely to occur han would have been the case otherwise

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Saving face

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To oid disgrace, humiliation, embarassement

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Stereotyping

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

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Ethnocentrism

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The attitude that one's culture is superior to others.

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Empathy

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The ability to be able to understand he feelings about someone else

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Emotional contagion

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The proceess of which emotions are transferred om one person to another

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Reappraisal

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

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Rumination

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Dwelling persistently on negative thoughts that, in turn, intensifies 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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The rules that govern he meaning of the language as opposed to it's 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 notion 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 ne's speech style to match others

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Nonverbal communication

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Messages expressed by nonlinguistic terms(volume, rate, pitch, sigh, snort)

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Emblems

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Deliberate nonverbal behaviors th precise meaning that is known virtually by all the members of the 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 means of vocal expression: rate, tone, pitch, vocalized pause, and so on.

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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
Monochronic

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P- An approach to the use of time that emphasizes flexibility and pursuing multiple tasks.
M- Behavior that emphasizes punctuality, shedules, completing one task at a time.