Small Group Communication Chapter 4

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Artists Circle

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A relatively small group of peers who work together for an extended period of time, exchanging ideas for commentary and critique and developing a shared conception of what their professions methods and goals should be; more generally, a collaborative circle.

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Personality

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The configuration of distinctive but enduring dispositional characteristics, including traits, temperament, and values, that characterize an individual's responses across situations.

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Five Factor Model

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A conceptual model of the primary dimensions that structure individual differences in personality. They are extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience.

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Extraversion

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In personality trait theories, the degree to which an individual tends to seek out social contacts, including such related qualities as outgoing, enthusiastic, energetic, and assertive.

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Agreeableness

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The degree to which an individual tends to respond positively across situations, including such related qualities as trusting, straight-forward, warm, cooperative, modest, and sympathetic.

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Relationality

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The degree to which one's values, attitudes, and outlooks emphasize and facilitate establishing and maintaining connections to others.

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Need for affiliation

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A motivating state of tension that can be relieved by joining with other people, which frequently includes concerns about winning the approval of other people.

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Need for intimacy

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A motivating state of tension that can be relieved by seeking out warm, positive relationships with others.

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Experience sampling

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A research method asking participants to record their thoughts, emotions, or behavior at the time they are experiencing them rather than at a later time or date.

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Need for power

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A motivating state of tension that can be relieved by gaining control over other people and ones environment.

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Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation (FIRO)

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A theory of group formation and development that emphasizes compatability among three basic social motives: inclusion, control, and affection.

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Social anxiety disorder

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A persistent and pervasive pattern of overwhelming anxiety and self-consciousness experienced when anticipating or actually interacting with other people.

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Attachment theory

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Individuals joining a good group, and are agreeing to be part of a set of intertwined relationships with one or more individuals.

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Social movement

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A deliberate, sustained, and organized group of individuals seeking change or resisting a change in a social system. Movements are sustained by individuals who may share a common outlook on issues or by members of identifiable social groups or categories, but not by businesses, political organizations or governments.

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Affiliation

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The gathering together of individuals in one location; also, a formalized relationship, as when an individual is said to be affiliated with a group or organization.