Modifying your language to fit into different social groups
What is Code Switching?
100
The degree of prominence given to a syllable within a word or words within a phrase or sentence
What is word stress?
100
Making a judgement about someone before you truly know them is referred to as...
What is prejudice?
100
The ability to restate what people say in a way that indicates you understand them.
What is paraphrasing?
100
Powerful, wealthy groups at the top of a society determine who will communicate and be listened to.
What is Muted Group Theory?
200
Substituting a vague word or phrase for one considered to be hurtful or offensive
What is euphemism ?
200
The degree to which you seem approachable and likeable
What is immediacy?
200
Name one of the five barriers to understanding others.
What is ethnocentrism, stereotyping, prejudice, discrimination, or racism?
200
The name of the model that represents six interrelated listening processes
What is the HURIER model?
200
A hypothesis that claims that language influences how we see, experience, and interpret the world around us.
What is the Whorf Hypothesis?
300
Something that stands for or represents something specific and often looks like the thing it represents
What is a sign?
300
People that are perceived as more kind, interesting or sexy
What are attractive people?
300
The mistaken belief that your culture is a superior culture with special rights and privileges that are or should be denied to others.
What is Ethnocentrism?
300
The speed (words per minute) at which most people can think compared with the speed at which they can speak.
What is Thought Speed?
300
By understanding your preferred listening style or styles, you can explore other styles and learn how to adapt your behavior accordingly to maximize communication.
What is Personal Listening Styles Controversy?
400
An arbitrary collection of sounds that in a certain combination stands for concepts
What are symbols?
400
Used with a verbal message that would lack meaning without the words
What are the characteristics of the gesture illustrator?
400
Our self- concept as derived from the social categories which we see ourselves belonging
What is Social Identity?
400
A statement that identifies your belief or position on a particular issue or topic
What is a Claim?
400
A theory that describes the process of relationship bonding in which individuals move from superficial communication to deeper, more intimate communication.
What is Social Penetration Theory?
500
A slang term used to describe an action where you are showing off
What is "flossing" ?
500
Managing the flow of a conversation
What is Regulating non verbal behaviors?
500
An aspect of a culture that can be measured relative to other cultures
What is intercultural dimension?
500
Name one of the six common Fallacies.
What is attacking the person, appeal to authority, appeal to popularity, appeal to tradition, faulty cause, or hasty generalization?
500
A theory that explains how your expectations about nonverbal behavior significantly affect how you interact with others and how you interpret the meaning of verbal messages.