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terms - ch. 1,2,3,4

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The verbal utterances and nonverbal behaviors to which meaning is attributed during communication   Messages  
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The thoughts in one person’s mind as well as interpretations one makes of another’s messages   meanings  
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Are words, sounds, and actions that seek to represent specific ideas and feelings   symbols  
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The process of putting our thoughts and feelings into words and nonverbal cues.   encoding  
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The process of interpreting another’s message   decoding  
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The setting in which communication occurs including what precedes and follows what is said   context  
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The location, the environmental conditions, the distance between the communicators, seating arrangement and time of day   physical context  
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The nature of the relationship that already exists between participants   social context  
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The background provided by previous communication episodes between participants   historical context  
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The moods and feelings that each brings to the interpersonal encounter   psychological context  
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The values, attitudes, beliefs, orientations and underlying assumptions prevalent among people in society   cultural context  
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Both the route traveled by the message an the means of transportation   channels  
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Any stimulus that interferes with the process of sharing meaning   noise  
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Includes sights, sounds, and other stimuli that might draw away attention   physical noise  
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Internal distractions based on thoughts, feelings, or emotional reactions to symbols   psychological noise  
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Refers to the thoughts and feelings that compete for attention   internal noise  
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Refers to the distractions aroused by certain symbols that take our attention away from the main message. The “girl’ in the office might actually refer to a 40 year old woman.   semantic noise  
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The reactions and response to messages that indicate to the sender how the message was heard, seen and interpreted   feedback  
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Informal interaction among a small number of people who have relationships with each other   interpersonal communication setting  
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Characterized by participants who come together for the specific purpose of solving a problem or arriving at a decision   problem solving group settings  
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Participants deliver a prepared message to a group or audience   public speaking settings  
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Characterized by participants who do not share a physical context but communicate through the use of technology   electronically mediated communication settings  
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Involves communication by way of an electronic network but does not involve real time   e-mail  
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Online communication that allows two or more participants to communicate in real time   instant messaging  
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Sending messages by way of mobile phone   text messaging  
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Electronic mailing lists   listservs  
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Web based forums designed for interactive message exchange between two or more people logged into the same room   chat rooms  
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Are online journals housed on a website   weblogs or blogs  
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Web based sites where a group of people can interact in real time by playing games   online games  
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Spoken without much conscious thought   spontaneous expressions  
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Phrasings that we have learned from past communication encounters and deem appropriate for the current situation   scripted communication  
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Messages put together with careful thought   constructed messages  
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Is the degree of liking or attractiveness in a relationship   immediacy  
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The degree to which one participant is perceived to be more dominant or powerful   control  
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Systems of knowledge shared by a relatively large group of people   culture  
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A set of moral principles that may be held by a society, a group or an individual   ethics  
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Refraining from deception of any kind   truthfulness and honesty  
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A choice involving unsatisfactory alternatives   moral dilemma  
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Maintaining a consistency of belief and action (keeping promises)   integrity  
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Achieving the right balance of interests without regard to one’s feelings and being free from bias   fairness  
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Showing regard or consideration for others and their ideas   respect  
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Being accountable for one’s actions and what one says   responsibility  
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The impression that communicative behavior is both appropriate and effective in any given situation   communication competence  
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Goal oriented actions that we can master and repeat in appropriate situations   skills  
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The perception of the speaker’s knowledge, trustworthiness and warmth   credibility  
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Communication without anxiety or nervousness   social ease  
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The process of selectively attending to information and assigning meaning to it   perception  
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A set of characteristics used to differentiate some things from others   pattern  
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Assigning meaning to information   interpret  
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Your self identity   self concept  
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Your over all evaluation of your competence and personal worthiness   self esteem  
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A pattern of learned behaviors that people use to meet the perceived demands of a particular context   role  
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The internal process of observing and regulating your own behaviors based on your analysis of the situation and others’ responses to you   self monitoring  
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The gap between our inaccurate self-perceptions and reality   incongruence  
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Events that happen as the result of being foretold, expected or talked about   self-fulfilling prophecies  
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The internal conversations we have with ourselves   self talk  
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The process of monitoring the social environment to learn more about self and others   uncertainty reduction  
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Assumptions people have developed about which physical characteristics and personality traits or behaviors are associated with another   implicit personality theories  
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To generalize and perceive that a person has a whole set of characteristics when you have actually observed only one characteristic, trait, or behavior   halo effect  
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Attributions that cover up individual differences and ascribe certain characteristics to an entire group of people   stereotypes  
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A rigid attitude that is based on group membership and predisposes an individual to feel, think or act in a negative way toward another person or group.   prejudice  
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A negative action toward a social group or its members on account of group membership   discrimination  
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Reasons we give for others’ behaviors   attributions  
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A message that reflects your understanding of the meaning of another person’s nonverbal behavior   perception check  
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A body of symbols and the systems for their use in messages that are common to the people of the same speech community   language  
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A group of people who speak the same language   speech community  
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Symbols used by a speech community to represent objects, ideas and feelings   words  
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A theory claiming that language influences perception   sapir-whorf hypothesis  
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The direct, explicit meaning a speech community formally gives a word.   denotation  
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The feelings or evaluations we associate with a word   connotation  
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The position of a word in a sentence and the words around it   syntactic context  
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Cultures in which messages are direct, specific and detailed   low context culture  
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Cultures in which messages are indirect, general and ambiguous   high context culture  
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Use words of empathy and support, emphasize concrete and personal language, and show politeness and tentativeness in speaking   feminine styles of language  
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Use words of status and problem solving, emphasize abstract and general language, and show assertiveness and control in speaking   masculine styles of language  
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Words that clarify meaning by narrowing what is understood from a general category to a particular item or group within that category   specific words  
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Words that appeal to the senses and help us see, hear, smell, taste or touch   concrete words  
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Words that narrow a larger category   precise words  
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Wording that is full of life, vigorous, bright and intense   vivid wording  
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A direct comparison of dissimilar things   simile  
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A comparison that establishes a figurative identity between objects being compared   metaphor  
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The weight or importance given to certain words or ideas   emphasis  
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Specifying the time or time period that a fact was true or known to be true   dating information  
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The mental and verbal practice of acknowledging the presence of individual differences when voicing generalizations   indexing generalizations  
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Choosing language and symbols that are adapted to the needs, interests, knowledge, and attitudes of the listeners and avoiding language that alienates   speaking appropriately  
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Technical terms understood only by select groups   jargon  
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Informal vocabulary used by particular groups in society   slang  
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Using words that may apply to only one sex, race or other group as though they represent everyone   generic language  
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Terms are changed because of the sex, race or other characteristic of the individual   nonparallel language  
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The addition of sex, race, age, or other designations to a description   marking  
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Bodily actions and vocal qualities that typically accompany a verbal message   nonverbal behaviors  
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The interpretation of body motions used in communication   kinesics  
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Movements of our hands, arms, and fingers that we use to describe or emphasize   gestures  
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Gestures that augment a verbal message   illustrators  
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Gestures that substitute for words   emblems  
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Gestures that respond to a physical need   adaptors  
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How and how much we look at people with whom we are communicating   eye contact or gaze  
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The arrangement of facial muscles to communicate emotional states or reactions to messages   facial expressions  
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Typed symbols that convey emotional aspects of an online message   emoticons  
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The position and movement of the body   posture  
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Posture in relation to another person   body orientation  
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The interpretation of touch   haptics  
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The interpretation of the message based on the paralinguistic features   vocalics  
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The voiced but not verbal part of a spoken message   paralanguage  
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The highness or lowness of the vocal tone   pitch  
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The loudness or softness of the tone   volume  
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The speed at which a person speaks   rate  
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The sound of a person’s voice   quality  
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The variety, melody or inflection in one’s voice   intonation  
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Extraneous sounds or words that interrupt the fluent speech   vocalized pauses  
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The interpretation of a person’s use of space   proxemics  
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The distance you try to maintain when you interact with other people   personal space  
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The physical environment over which you exert control   physical space  
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Objects and possessions we use to decorate the physical space we control   artifacts  
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Round and heavy body type   endomorph  
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Muscular and athletic body type   mesomorph  
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Lean and little muscle development   ectomorph  
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The interpretation of a person’s use of time   chronemics  
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A time orientation that emphasizes doing one thing at a time   monochronic time orientation  
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A time orientation that emphasizes doing multiple things at once   polychronic time orientation  
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