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Intro to communication Final

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The process by which we use signs, symbols and behaviors to exchange information and create meaning.   Communication  
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One way process   action model  
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encode   to put your idea in the form of language or a gesture that someone can understand.  
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message   consists of the verbal and/or nonverbal elements of communication to which people give meaning.  
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a type of pathway for conveying messages   channel  
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to interpret   decode  
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receiver   the person who will decode the message  
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noise   anything that interferes with a reciver's ability to attend to your message.  
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various verbal and nonverbal responses to your message   feedback  
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the environment that you're in   context  
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channel-rich contexts   environments that incorporate multiple communication channels at once.  
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channel-lean contexts   environments that use relatively fewer channels.  
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a representation of an idea   symbol  
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communication about communication   meta-communication  
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explicit rules   someone has clearly articulated them  
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implicit rules   rules that almost everyone in a certain social group knows and follows, even though no one has formally articulated them.  
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communication you have with yourself   intrapersonalcommunication  
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communication that occurs between two people in the context of their ongoing relationship.   interpersonal Communication  
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small group communication   communication in groups of 3-20 people  
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public communication   occurs when we speak or write to an audience that is larger than a small group  
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communicating in ways that are effective and appropriate in a given situation.   communication competence  
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the ability to understand other people's thoughts and feelings   empathy  
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Culture   the totality of learned shared symbols, language, values and norms that distinguish one group of people from another  
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Societies   groups of people who share common symbols, language, value and norms.  
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In-group   groups of people with which a person identifies.  
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Out-groups   groups of people with which a person does not identify  
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Ethnicity   our perception of our ancestry or heritage.  
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Nationality   our status as a citizen of a particular country.  
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Enculturation   the process of acquiring a culture.  
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Co-cultures   groups of people who share values, customs, and norms related to mutual intrests or characteristics besides their national citizenship.  
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Values   the standards it uses to judge how good, desirable, or beautiful something is.  
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Norms   rules or expectations that guide people’s behavior in a culture.  
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Jargon   terminology that is understood only by others in the same co-culture.  
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Individualistic culture   people believe that their primary responsibility is to themselves.  
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Collectivistic culture   people are taught that their primary responsibility is to their families, their communities, and their employers.  
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Low-context culture   people are expected to be direct, to say what they mean, and to not “beat around the bush”.  
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High-context culture   taught to speak in a much less direct way than individuals in a low-context culture.  
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Low-power distance culture   the belief that all men and women are created equal and that no one person or group should have excessive power.  
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High-power distance culture   power is distributed less evenly; certain groups, such as the royal family or the members of the ruling political party, have great power, and the average citizen has much less.  
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Masculine culture   values ambition, achievement, and the acquisition of material goods.  
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Feminine culture   values nurturance, quality of life, and service to others.  
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Monochromic   time as a commodity  
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Polychromic   time as more holistic and fluid and less structured.  
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Uncertainty avoidance   the extent to which people try to avoid situations that are unstructured, unclear, or unpredictable.  
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Mindful   aware of how their behaviors and ways of thinking are likely to differ from our own.  
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Similarity assumption   we presume that most people think the same way we do, without asking ourselves whether that’s true.  
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Ethnocentrism   the tendency to judge other cultures’ practices as inferior to one’s own.  
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Communication codes   verbal and nonverbal behaviors whose meanings are often understood only by people from the same culture  
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Idiom   a phrase whose meaning is purely figurative  
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Gestures   movements, usually of the hand or arm, that express ideas.  
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Ambiguity   lack of certainty  
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Adapt   to change your behavior to accommodate what others are doing.  
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Perception   the process of making meaning from what we experience in the world around us.  
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Selection   the process by which your mind and body help you isolate certain stimuli to pay attention to.  
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Organization   the classification of information in some way.  
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Perceptual schema   a mental framework for organizing information into categories.  
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Interpretation   to figure out its meaning for you  
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Stereotype   a generalization about a group or category of people that can have a powerful influence on how we perceive other people and their communication behavior.  
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Primacy effect   first impressions are critical because they set the tone for all future interactions.  
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Recency effect   the most recent impression we have of a person’s communication is more powerful than our earlier impressions.  
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Perceptual set   a person’s predisposition to perceive only what he or she wants or expects to perceive.  
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Attribution   an explanation  
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Self-serving bias   relates primarily to how we explain our own behaviors, refers to our tendency to attribute our successes to stable, internal causes while attributing our failures to unstable, external causes.  
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Fundamental attribution error   we attribute other people’s behaviors to internal rather than external causes.  
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Self-concept   composed of those stable ideas about who you are  
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Identity   you understanding of who you are.  
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Self-fulfilling prophecy   a situation in which an expectation prompts you to act and communicate in ways that make that expectation come true.  
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Facework   the behaviors we use to project that image to others  
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Face   our desired public image  
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Face needs   important components of our desired public image  
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Language   a structured system of symbols used for communicating meaning.  
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Denotative meaning   the literal meaning  
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Connotative meaning   the ideas or concepts that the word suggests in addition to its literal meaning  
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Norm of reciprocity   when someone gives you some type of gift or resource, you are expected to return the favor.  
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Social validation principle   people will comply with requests if they believe that others are also complying.  
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Euphemism   a vague, mild expression that symbolizes and substitutes for something that is blunter or harsher.  
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Nonverbal communication   behaviors and characteristics that convey meaning without the use of words.  
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Nonverbal channels   the various behavioral forms that nonverbal communication takes  
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Oculesics   the study of eye behavior, as a separate nonverbal channel  
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Kinesics   the study of movement  
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Gesticulation   the use of arm and hand movements to communicate  
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Emblems   any gesture that have a direct verbal translation  
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Illustrators   gestures that go along with a verbal message to clarify it.  
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Affect display   gestures that communicate emotion  
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Regulators   gestures that control the flow of conversation  
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Adaptors   gestures you use to satisfy some personal need  
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Haptics   the study of how we use touch to communicate  
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Vocalics   speaking with a particular tone of voice to suggest that you are irritated, amused or bored  
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Olfactics   study of the sense of smell  
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Proxemics   the study of the use of space  
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Intimate distance   the zone of space willingly occupied only with intimate friends, family members, and romantic partners.  
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Personal distance   the zone of space occupied with close friends and relatives.  
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Social distance   the zone of space occupied with casual acquaintances  
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Public distance   the zone of space maintained during a public presentation.  
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Halo effect a predisposition to attribute positive qualities to physically attractive people.    
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Chronemics   the use of time  
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Artifacts   objects and visual features that reflect a person’s identity and preferences  
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Listening   the active process of making meaning out of another person’s spoken message.  
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Hearing   the sensory process of receiving and perceiving sounds  
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Attending   paying attention to someone’s words well enough to understand what that person is trying to communicate.  
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HURIER model   a model describing the stages of effective listening as hearing, understanding, remembering, interpreting, evaluating, and responding.  
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Informational listening   listening to learn  
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Critical listening   listening to evaluate or to analyze  
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Empathetic listening   listening to experience what the speaker thinks or feels.  
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Pseudolistening   pretending to listen.  
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Selective attention   listening only to what one wants to hear and ignoring the rest  
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Information overload   the state of being overwhelmed by the enormous amount of information encountered each day.  
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Glazing over   daydreaming or allowing the mind to wander while another person is speaking.  
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Rebuttal tendency   the propensity to debate a speaker’s point and formulate a reply while that person is still speaking  
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Closed-mindedness   the tendency not to listen to anything with which one disagrees.  
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Competitive interrupting   the practice of using interruptions to take control of the conversation  
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Confirmation bias   the tendency to pay attention only to information that supports one’s values and beliefs, while discounting or ignoring information that does not.  
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Vividness effect   the tendency of dramatic, shocking events to distort one’s perceptions of reality.  
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Skepticism   an attitude that involves raising questions or having doubts.  
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Need to belong theory   a psychological theory proposing a fundamental human inclination to bond with others  
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Attraction theory   a theory that explains why individuals are drawn to others.  
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Interpersonal attraction   the force that draws people together.  
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Physical attraction   attraction to someone’s appearance  
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Social attraction   attraction to someone’s personality  
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Task attraction   attraction to someone’s abilities or dependability.  
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Proximity   closeness, as in how closely together people live or work.  
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Complementarity   the beneficial provision by another person of a quality that one lacks  
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Uncertainty reduction theory   theory suggesting that people find uncertainty to be unpleasant, so they are motivated to reduce their uncertainty by getting to know others.  
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Social exchange theory   theory suggesting that people seek to maintain relationships in which their benefits outweigh their cost.  
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Self-disclosure   act of intentionally giving others information about oneself that believes is true but thinks others don’t already have  
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Social penetration theory   indicates that the depth and breadth of self-disclosure helps us learn about a person we’re getting to know.  
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Breadth   the range of topics one discusses with various people  
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Interdependence   the state in which what happens tone person affects everyone else in the relationship  
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Dialectical tensions   conflicts between two important but opposing relational needs or desires.  
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Polygamy   the state of having two or more romantic partners at once  
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Monogamy   the state of being in only one romantic relationship at a time and avoiding romantic or sexual involvement with others outside that relationship  
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Initiating stage   the stage of relationship development at which people meet and interact for the first time  
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Experimenting stage   the stage of relationship development at which people converse to learn more about each other.  
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Intensifying stage   the stage of relationship development at which people move from being acquaintance to being close friends.  
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Integrating stage   the stage of relationship development at which a deep commitment has formed and the partners share a strong sense that the relationship has its own identity  
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Bonding stage   the stage of relationship development at which partners make a public announcement of their commitment to each other.  
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Communication privacy management theory   a theory explaining how people in relationships negotiate the tension between disclosing information and keeping it private  
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Differentiating stage   the stage of relationship dissolution at which partners begin to view their differences as undesirable or annoying.  
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Circumscribing stage   partners begin to decrease the quality and quantity of their communication with each other  
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Stagnating stage   the relationship stops growing and the partners feel as if they are just “going through the motions.”  
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Avoiding stage   partners create physical and emotional distance from each other.  
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Terminating stage   the relationship is officially deemed to be over  
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Family of origin   the family in which one grows up, usually consisting of parents and siblings.  
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Family of procreation   the family one starts as an adult, usually consisting of a spouse or romantic partner and children.  
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Family rituals   repetitive activities that have special meaning to the family.  
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Confirming messages   behaviors that convey how much another person is valued  
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Disconfirming messages   behaviors that imply a lack of respect or value of others.  
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Stonewalling   withdrawing from a conversation  
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Cohesion   the force by which the members of a group work together in the service of a common goal.  
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Resources   entitles that enable a group to be productive.  
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Synergy   a collaboration that produces more than the sum of its parts.  
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Social loafing   the tendency of some members of a group to contribute less to the group than the average member does, particularly as the group grows in size.  
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Brainstorming   an idea-generating process in which group members offer whatever ideas they wish before any are debated.  
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Nominal group technique   an idea-generating process in which group members generate their initial ideas silently and independently and then combine tem and consider them as a group.  
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Ideawritng   each member adds three or four ideas to a pile and then offers comments on others’ ideas. Afterward, members respond to comments made about their ideas and generate a master list of ideas worth of consideration.  
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Unanimous consensus   uncontested support for a decision sometimes the only option in a group’s decision-making process.  
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Stalemate   an outcome where members’ opinions are so sharply divided that consensus is impossible to achieve.  
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False consensus   an outcome where some members of a group say they support the unanimous decision even though they do not.  
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Majority rule   a decision- making process that follows the will of the majority.  
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Minority rule   a small number of members makes a decision on behalf of the group.  
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Expert opinion   recommendations of individuals who have expertise in a particular area that are sometimes the basis of a group’s decision-making process.  
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Authority rule   the leader of the group makes the decisions.  
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Traits   defining characteristics of a person that are often relatively enduring and not easily changeable.  
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Extroversion   people who are friendly, assertive, and outgoing with others.  
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Introversion   people who are shy, reserved, and aloof  
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Communication apprehension   anxiety or fear about communicating with others  
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Democratic style   every member of a group has the right to participate in decision making.  
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Autocratic style   leader see themselves as having both the authority and responsibility to take action on the group’s behalf  
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Reward power   based on the leader’s ability to reward another for doing what the leaders says  
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Laissez-faire style   leaders offer minimal supervision  
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Coercive power   a form of power that comes from the ability to punish  
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Referent power   a form of power that derives from attraction to the leader  
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Legitimate power   a form of power in which leaders’ status or position gives them the right to make requests with which others must comply  
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Expert power   a form of power that stems from having expertise in particular area.  
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Informational power   a form of power that stems from the ability to control access to information.  
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Groupthink   a situation in which group members seek unanimous agreement despite their individual doubts.  
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