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COMM 101
UNIT 2
Term | Definition |
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primary identity vs secondary identity | Prim. ident. ex: teacher Sec. Ident. ex: angry teacher |
identity | exists individually and socially |
fixed identity | identity that does not change |
dynamic identity | identity that changes rapidly |
symbolic interactionism | meaning is found through interaction with others |
)reflected appraisals | the idea that people's self images arise primarily from the ways that others view them and from the many messages they have recieved from others about who they are your self image results from the image others reflect back at you |
social comparison | evaluating our identity with the identities of others in our society |
looking glass self | the idea that self image results from the images others reflect back to an individual |
self-fulfilling prophecy | when an individual expects something to occur, the expectation increases the likelihood that it will |
self-concept/self-esteem/self-respect | respecting one's own identity |
dimensions of self | race, gender, ethnicity, age , nationaltiy, religion, sexual identity, social class |
perception process: selection | What do I see? |
perception process: Organization | How does it all fit together? |
perception process: Interpretation | What does it mean? |
individual perception factors: physical | difference in senses and physical charecteristics |
individual perception factors: cognitive | interests, inteligence, and experiances |
individual perception factors: Interpretation | Emotions, and knowledge |
prototype | an idealized schema |
attributional bias (self-serving bias) | the tendency to give one's self more credit that is due when good things happen and to accept too little responsibility for those things that go wrong |
attributional bias (fundamental attribution error) | the tendency to attribute others' negative behavior to internal causes and their positive behaviors to external causes |
constructs | catogories people develop to help them organize information |
cognitive complexity | the degree to which a person's constructs are detailed, involved, or numerous |
ethnocentrism | the tendency to view one's own group as the standard against which all other groups are judged |
importance of intercultural communication | increased opportunities, business effectiveness, politics, intergroup relations, enhanced self awareness |
intercultural communication | communication that occurs in interactions betwee people who are culturally different |
culture | learned patterns of perceptions, values, and behaviours, shared by a group of people |
heterogenous | diverse |
border dwellers | people who live between cultures and often experience contradictory cultural patterns |
voluntary short-term travelers | people who are border dwellers by choice and for a limited time |
voluntary longterm travelers | people who are border dwellers by choice and for an extended time |
voluntary short term travelers | people who are border dwellers by choice for a limited time |
involuntary long term travelers | people who are border dweller permanently but not by choice, such as those who relocate to escape war |
culture shock | a feeling of disorientation and discomfortdue to the lack of familiar enviromental cues |
reverse culture shock | culture shock experianced by travelers upon returning to their home country |
encapsulated marginal people | people who feel disintegrated by having to shift cultures |
constructive marginal people | people who thrive in a border dweller life, while recognizing its tremendous challenges |
cultural values | beliefs that are so central to a cultural group that they are never questioned |