IPC Chapter 1
This definition defines what key term: It is a distinctive, transactional form of human communication involving mutual influence for the purpose of managing relationships.
What is Interpersonal communication
Define Rules (interpersonal definition)
A followable prescription that indicates behavior expectations in a relationship.
Name and define the four Facework concepts we covered in Chapter 2.
What are:
Positive Face
Preventative Facework
Corrective Facework
Face-threatening Acts
Taron loves dance and enrolled in a CMU Hip-Hop class. Taron feels happy after each class thinks it is from being surrounded by people with the same positive attitude. Which concept explains how Taron's emotions are impacted by attending the class?
Emotional Contagion
What process is involved when we focus our attention on specific elements of our environment and ignore others?
Selective Attention
This is defined as the process of acting on information.
What is Communication
Your answer would be? (See chapter 1 and your assignments).
Define Self
What is the sum total of who a person is; a person’s central inner force
This is defined as a collection of perceptions about others that you maintain and use to interpret their behaviors
What are impressions
Question: Which two stages of the Interpersonal Perception Process best describes the following scenario?
Scenario: You are waiting for a first date to arrive at the cafe. You haven't met each other before. You study the faces of people as they enter and no on looks like they are looking for someone else.
Then a solo diner you didn't notice before catches your eye and smiles - like they were looking for someone as well. You think "probably, that's them (your date)."
Question: Which two stages of the Interpersonal Perception Process best describes the above scenario?
What is organization and closure
Reagan was having a day and decided dinner out would be a treat. The server was having a day - a first day. Instead of reacting angrily when the server tipped the entire jar of salad oil onto Reagan's lap, Reagan laughed and said - "It's okay - really - we've all had a first day somewhere."
This scenario is best defined by Buber as an:
I-Thou interaction.
Now - someone tell your classmates why.
Which actions best describe encoding (transactional communication)
What is translating ideas, feelings, and thoughts into a code (ie: language, sign-language, non-verbal language).
See chapter 1
Which is the most difficult to change:
Attitudes, Beliefs, or Values?
What are Values
This is an error that arises from attributing another person’s behavior to internal, controllable causes rather than to external, uncontrollable causes
What is Fundamental Attribution Error
Define Thin-slicing
A song by The Weeknd is playing on a car radio near you. You call a friend in another state and hear the same song on their radio. This is a form of which style of communication?
What is mass communication
Cody and Raul agreed to not discuss their relationship in public or with friends. With this, they are working with this key term
What is Metacommunication (communicating about communication)
What are the five ways your self-concept develops?
What are interactions with individuals, groups associations, roles you assume (willingly or not willingly), self labels, and your personality.
William James stated:
(1) We have this number of selves; (2) the selves are called, (3) and this one self of yours cares the most about you:
What are:
1. We have this number of selves = 4
2. The selves are called: Material, Social, Spiritual, and self-Ego
3. This one self of yours cares the most about you = Ego
In order, what are the stages of perception and what are the steps within each?
What are select, organize, and interpret.
Steps in Selecting are?
Steps in Organizing are?
One cannot not communicate is best defined as this process.
What is transactional communication
Define Communibiological Approach and tell us how it could connect with Attachment Styles.
Communibiological Approach: Perspective that suggests genetic and biological influences play a major role in influencing communication behaviour.
Attachment Styles look at our communication comfort levels, which are a happenstance of how those who raised you communicated as well as demonstrated touch.
Define Attachment Style
What is a style of relating to others that develops early in life and is based on the emotional bond formed with parent(s) or primary caregiver.
Name the barriers of accurate Interpersonal Communication.
What are:
Stereotyping, ignoring information, imposing consistency, focusing on the negative, and fundamental attribution errors.
This is the tendency to attend to the first pieces of information observed about a person in order to form an impression
What is the Primacy Effect