How We View the World
The webs of interconnected ideas and knowledge that you learn from experiencing the world (lecture example: Black and Chinese superheroes)
What is schemata?
The part of your self-concept that is derived from your group memberships
What is social identity?
Things that represent aspects of a culture such as music, art, food, and social institutions such as schools or governments.
What is cultural elements?
The belief that our perceptions, beliefs, and methods are correct and superior to those of others.
What is egocentrism?
Beliefs about a person based solely on the fact that they belong to a certain group.
What is stereotype?
A learned system of knowledge, behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, values, and norms that are shared by a group of people
What is culture?
Interactions in which communication are driven by each person’s membership in a group, not much affected by personal relationships (ex. students in same class, fans of your favorite sports team)
What is intergroup interactions?
The fundamental features that keep a cultural group cohesive.
What is cultural values?
Acknowledging or understanding what someone may be feeling—also known as perspective-taking (I’m so sorry…That’s too bad…etc.)
What is sympathy?
Your instructor's broader discipline of study (ex. not interpersonal communication)
What is Communication Studies?
A common way of understanding reality that is agree upon in society, so much so that it's unquestioned
What is a paradigm?
Interactions between two people that are mainly driven by personal relationships and individual characteristics
What is interpersonal interactons?
Viewing other cultures only from our own cultural frame of reference.
What is ethnocentrism?
When you experience concern for the well-being of another person because you feel a sense of emotional connection or ethical responsibility (Are you okay? What can I do? I know how you feel, etc.)
What is empathy?
Your professor's (Dr. J) favorite Marvel character (always "breaking the fourth wall")
What is Deadpool?
What occurs when a previously unquestioned truth is challenged, causing society to undergo a fundamental change
What is a paradigm shift?
When we accommodate to be similar to the verbal and nonverbal style of the person with whom we are interacting in order to emphasize our similarities
What is convergence?
The process through which an individual acquires new approaches, beliefs and values by coming into contact with other cultures not related to your own.
What is acculturation?
The cognitive process in which you take into account another person’s thoughts, feelings, and values, not viewing them through the lens of your own thoughts, feelings, and values
What is decentering?
Your instructor's favorite flavor of yerba mate
What is mint?
The study of human nature and being human (lecture example: humans are superior to animals vs. humans and animals should have equal rights)
What is ontology?
When you differentiate yourself verbally and nonverbally from the person with whom you are interacting
What is divergence?
The process of communicating a group’s culture from one generation to the next; the process of learning your native culture.
What is enculturation?
This causes us to narrow down and perceive outgroup members as “being cut from the same cloth” and more alike to each other than they really are (stereotyping)
What is outgroup homogeneity?
The communication style used by your instructor when he established the "Cam Tax" with his old roommates who never threw away their beers ( he'd take a beer for every can they didn't throw away)?
What is aggressive?