Social Cognition
The social cognition process involves three steps: Attention, Memory, and this.
What is judgement?
The variation of voice in verbal messaging is a form of nonverbal communication called this.
What is paralanguage?
This is a system of symbols used to communicate orally or in writing.
What is a language?
This type of power is rooted in the ability to provide something of value to another party.
What is reward power?
The Quality Maxim assumes this of our conversation partners.
What is truthfulness?
When you value your own characteristics highly, you will have this social trait.
What is high self esteem?
Emblems are a specific type of this nonverbal communication, which uses hand and arm movements to augment messaging.
What is a gesture?
This is a collection of words and expressions.
What is a lexicon?
This term refers to the personal characteristics of a language that an individual uses; their active vocabularies, pronunciations, and grammar/syntax.
What is an idiolect?
This principle argues that conversation partners are able to understand our meanings because they assume we will collaborate in order to share meaning.
What is the cooperative principle?
This type of attribution places the cause of behaviors outside of the control of a person.
What is a situational attribution?
Many cultural differences impact the way nonverbal communication is used. For example, in this country, individuals tend to avoid direct eye contact.
What is Japan?
This is a form of a more general language spoken by a specific co-culture or culture.
What is a dialect?
This is a term for the nonverbal use of space in ways that convey meaning.
What is Proxemics?
High-context cultures tend to have this conversational style.
What is indirect style?
These are messages sent to yourself through your own thoughts.
What is self-talk, or intra-personal communication?
This is the space we claim ownership over through nonverbal cues.
What is territory?
This is a term that explains the self-image we perform in public, in a way that we want others to view us.
What is Face?
This is a term for an experience in which there is a gap between self-perception and realty.
This type of conversation sequence involves individuals finishing sentences for others (due to high intimacy and shared knowledge).
What is co-narration?
These are memory structures that connect a concept to related qualities.
What are schemas?
Personal space often dictates the context of an interaction. For example, if a person would be standing 18 inches to 4 feet from their conversation partner, they would be in what distance?
What is Personal Distance?
Speakers with this verbal style will openly state emotions, use straightforward messaging, and probably belong to low-context cultures.
What is a direct verbal style?
This type of attribution error reflects our tendency to assume others' failures result from their choices, whereas ours are explained by outside forces.
What is the Fundamental Attribution Error?
In what type of culture does conversation tend to include qualifiers, ambiguous statements, and meaningful silence?
What are high-context cultures?