Vocabulary
A systematic process in which people interact with and through symbols to create and interpret meaning
What is communication?
What is self fulfilling prophecy?
Linear, Interactive, Transactional
These represent ...
What are the three models of communication?
An active, complex process that includes being mindful, physically receiving message, selecting and organizing information, interpreting communication, responding, and remembering
What is listening?
Something that is far from the concrete reality
What is an abstraction?
Representation of persons, events or other phenomena
What is a symbol?
Communication that explicitly tells us who we are by labeling us and our behavior
What are direct definitions?
This process goes through verbal, physical and virtual systems. The content and relational level can affect this process
What is the communication process?
The active process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting people, objects, events, situations, and activities
What is Perception?
The concept that we are more likely to favorably interpret ourselves and people like us than those who are not like us
What is self-serving bias?
Communication with words constituted by regulative rules and constitutive rules
What is verbal communication?
Knowing what the communicator is saying vs knowing what the communicator actually means
What is content and relational level of meaning?
Selection, Organize, Interpretation
These represent...
What are the steps of the perception process?
All aspects of communication other than words themselves
What is nonverbal communication?
People who help you figure out who you are to your family, peers, and other significant figures in society
What are particular others?
Telling oneself we are no good, we'll never learn something, there is no point in trying; one of the most crippling kinds of self-talk we can engage in
What is self-sabotage?
What are the three A's?
Helps to show how a person lived life and how that has impacted the way they communicate with other people
What are attachment styles?
Involves comparing ourselves to gauge our talents, attractiveness, abilities, skills, and so forth.
What is Social Comparison?
Factors that otherwise help form a person's self-image
What are generalized others?
Claims that a culture includes a number of social communities that have different degrees of social status or privilege
What is Standpoint Theory?
Makes the speaker vulnerable and makes it more probably for the other party to actually listen to what is being said
What is I-Language?
Allows you to see a person from not just your perspective, but understand and try to see where they are coming from.
What is duel-perspective?
Reflects cognitive complexity because it entails abstract thinking and a broad range of schemata. The ability to perceive another as a unique and distinct individual
What is Person-Centered Perception?
Targets the other party and brings out a defensive side