Non-verbal Communication
These features of texting can be used to convey non-verbal communication in mediated contexts.
What are emojis (emoticons)?
Going running together is an example of *this* dimension of intimacy in a relationship.
What is shared activities?
This process happens when sounds waves strike the eardrum.
What is hearing?
What is confirming communication?
We might choose a relational partner for *this* reason that means we have things in common.
What is similarity?
What is asynchronous?
This gender role is more likely to express intimacy through self-disclosure.
What is the feminine gender role?
This type of listening is best when we receive important messages.
What is mindful listening?
Sally: "Hey, I'd like to..."
Jane: "OMG you have to see this new phone I bought!"
This type of disconfirming message can leave Sally feeling unheard in her friendship.
What is an interrupting message?
This factor for choosing a relational partner is because we think they are smart or talented in some way.
What is competence?
This is a strategy for considering how your nonverbal behaviors affect how others think about you.
What is impression management?
These two orientations are types of characteristics of friendship relationships.
What is relationship and task oriented?
This type of ineffecitive listening might be happening when one person talks for most of the conversation and interupts the other communicator.
What is stage-hogging?
This term refers to when one person causes harm to the self-concept or self-esteem of the other person through their communication.
What is face-threatening?
At this stage of relationship development, we might move in with a relational partner.
What is integrating?
This term refers to body movements used in non-verbal communication.
What is kinesics?
John walks out of the room every time Sally brings up "defining the relationship" and they end up not talking for hours. John is displaying *this* type of conflict style.
What is avoidant?
This reason for why we might not listen better is a result of receiving a multitude of different communications.
What is message overload?
This type of conflict style might happen when one person goes along to a restaurant everyone else likes even though it is inconvenient to drive so far out of their way compared to everyone else.
What is accomodating?
This term refers to the top section of the "staircase model" and includes integrating, bonding, differentiating, and circumscribing.
What is relational maintenance?
This term refers to the distance we have from others and one researcher measured and defined specific distance ranges.
What is proxemics?
This researcher coined the Triangular Theory of Love.
Who is Robert Sternberg?
This strategy for effective listening involves repeating the message back to the other person in your own words.
What is paraphrasing?
These four factors are important when deciding what conflict styles to use.
What is the relationship, the situation, the other person, and your goals?
What are dialectical tensions?