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42 Cards in this Set
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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.
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