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Kinn's Chapter 5
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Adage | Saying, often in metaphoric form, that embodies a common observation. |
| Aggressive | Forceful or intended to dominate, hostile, injurious or destructive, especially when referring to a behavior caused by frustration. |
| Ambiguous | Capable of being understood in two or more possible senses of ways; unclear |
| Animate | To fill with life; to give spirit and support to expressions |
| Battery | Offensive touching or use of force on a person without his or her consent |
| Caustic | Marked by sarcasm |
| Channels | Means of communication of expression |
| Comfort zone | Place in the mind where an individual feels safe and confident. |
| Congruent | Beings in agreement, harmony, or correspondence |
| Decodes | Concerts, as in a message, into intelligible for; recognizes and interprets |
| Defense mechanism | Psychological methods of dealing with stressful situations that are encountered in day to day living |
| Encodes | Converts from one system of communication to another |
| Encroachment | Actions that advance beyond the unusual or proper limits |
| Enunciate | Utter articulate sounds; act of being very distinct in speech |
| External noise | Sounds or factors outside the brain that interfere with the communication process |
| Externalizations | Attribution of an event or occurrence to cause outside self |
| Feedback | Transmission of evaluative or corrective information to the original or controlling source about an action, event or process |
| Grief | Reaction to an unfortunate outcome; a deep distress caused by bereavement, a loss, or a perceived loss |
| Internal noise | Factors inside the brain that interfere with the communication process |
| Language barrier | Type of interference that inhibits the communication process and is related to languages spoken by the people attempting to communicate |
| Litigious | Prone to engage in lawsuits |
| Malediction | Speaking evil or the calling of a curse |
| Media | Term applied to agencies of mass communications such as newspapers, magazines and telecommunications |
| Paraphrasing | Express an idea in a different wording in an effort to enhance communications |
| Perception | Capacity for comprehension |
| Physiologic noise | Physiologic interferences with the communication process |
| Pitch | Highness or lowness of s sound |
| Proxemics | Study of nature, degree and effect of the spatial superstitions individuals naturally maintain |
| Sarcasm | Sharp often satirical response or ironic utterance designed to cut or inflict pain |
| Stereotype | Something conforming to a fixed or general pattern |
| Stressors | Stimuli that causes stress |
| Subtle | Difficult to understand or perceive |
| Thanatology | Study of phenomena of death and a psychological methods of coping with death |
| Vehemently | In a manner marked by forceful energy |
| Volatile | Easily aroused; tending to erupt in violence |
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