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Ch 4 Nonverbal
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Paralanguage | Which is the vocalized but not verbal part of spoken message |
| Nonverbal communication | a process of generating meaning is behavior other than words part of spoke message, such as speaking rate, volume, and pinch |
| Verbal communication | Vocal (spoken words) - Nonvocal (writing, sign language) |
| Mixed messages | Messages in which verbal and nonverbal contradict each other |
| Tie Signs | Nonverbal cues that communicate intimacy and signal the communication between two people. (Ex. Wedding rings or tattoos) |
| Immediacy behaviors | Verbal and nonverbal behaviors that lesson trail to perceived physical and psychological distance between communicators and include things like smiling, nodding making eye contact, and occasionally engaging in social, polite, or professorial touch |
| Artifacts | Aside from our physical body, artifacts, which are the objects and possessions that surround uis, also communicate our identities. |
| Kineseics | Refers to movement |
| Gestures | Adaptors, Emblems, Illisrator . |
| Adaptors | Adaptors are touching behavior is and movements that indicate internal states typically related tp arousal or anxiety. |
| Emblems | Emblems are gestures that have a specific agreed-on meaning |
| Illustrators | Illustrators are the most common ty[pes of gesture and are used to illustrate the verbal message they accompany. |
| Oculesics | Refers to eye contact, which determines if an audience is engaged, confused, or bored. |
| Haptics | Which refers to the study of communication by touch. |
| Vocalics | the study of paralanguage, which includes the vocal qualities that go along with verbal messages, such as volume, rate,vocal quality, and verbal fillers |
| Proxemics | refers to the study of how space and distance influence communication. (public space >12ft) (social 4-12ft) (Personal space 1.5 -4 ft) (intimate <1. ft) |
| Territoriality | an innate drive to take up and defend spaces |
| Chronemics | refers to the study of how time affects communication. |
| Personal presentation | involves two components: our physical characteristics and the artifacts with which we adorn and surround ourselves |
| Nonverbal congruence | refers to consistency among differential nonverbal expressions within a cluster |
| Mirroring | refers to the often subconscious practice of using nonverbal cues in a way that match those around us, example copying someone's actions |
| Civil inattention | refers to a social norm that leads us to avoid making eye contact with people in situations that deviate from expected social norms, such as witnessing someone fall or being in close proximity to a strangers expressing negative emotions. |
| Formal time | applies to professional situations in which we are expected to be on time or even a few minutes early |
| informal time | applies to casual and interpersonal situations in which there is much more variation in terms of expectations for promptness |
| Truth bias | leads us to believe that a person is telling the truth, especially if we know and like that person. |
| nonverbal leakage | refers to nonverbal behaviors that occur as we try to control the cognitive and physical changes that happen during stages of cognitive and physical arousal |
| non-contact culture | refers to cultural groups in which people stand further apart while talking, making less eye contact, and touch less during regular interactions. |
| Monochronic | orientation to time meaning time is seen as a commodity that can budgeted, saved, spent and wasted. |
| Contact cultures | cultural groups in which people stand closer together, engage in more eye contact, touch more frequently, and speak more loudly. |
| Polychronic | orientation to time, appointments may be scheduled at overlapping times |