A ________ is the sensory dimension along which communicators transmit information.
What is Channel
100
__________ is the ability to view yourself as a unique person distinct from your surrounding environment and to reflect on your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
What is Self-awareness
100
________ is the process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting information from our senses.
What is Perception
100
_________ are short-term emotional reactions to events that generate only limited arousal; they do not typically trigger attempts to manage their experience or expression.
What is Feelings
100
________ is your overall perception of who you are. (Chapter 2)
What is Self-concept
200
Because relationship information influences how people interpret content information, it can be considered a specific form of ____________ —communication about communication
What is Meta-Communication
200
Arguably the most profound outside force shaping our sense of self is our _______—the composite of social, psychological, and cultural attributes that characterize us as male or female
What is Gender
200
When you grow up valuing certain cultural beliefs, attitudes, and values as your own, you naturally perceive those who share these with you as fundamentally similar to yourself—people you consider _____.
What is Ingroupers
200
_________ is an intense reaction to an event that involves interpreting event meaning, becoming physiologically aroused, labeling the experience as emotional, managing reactions, and communicating through emotional displays and disclosures.
What is Emotion
200
In cases in which our actions result in noteworthy success, either personal or professional, we typically take credit for the success by making an internal attribution, a tendency known as the _____________. (Chapter 3)
What is Self-Serving Bias
300
We judge how appropriate our communication is through ___________: the process of observing our own communication and the norms of the situation in order to make appropriate communication choices.
What is Self-Monitoring
300
Revealing private information about ourselves is known as _____________.
What is Self-disclosure
300
According to ____________, our primary compulsion during initial interactions is to reduce uncertainty about our communication partners by gathering enough information about them that their communication becomes predictable and explainable.
What is Uncertainty Reduction Theory
300
Always suppressing anger can cause physical and mental problems: you put yourself in a near-constant state of arousal and negative thinking known as ___________.
What is Chronic Hostility
300
Much of our interpersonal interaction is ____________: connecting with others by means of new media, including social networking sites, e-mail, text- or instant-messaging. (Chapter 1)
What is Online Communication
400
The _________ communication model also views communication as a process involving senders and receivers
What is Interactive
400
The _______ is an evolving composite of self-awareness, self-concept, and self-esteem.
What is Self
400
When we experience _______, we “feel into” others’ thoughts and emotions, making an attempt to both understand their perspectives and be aware of their feelings in order to identify with them.
What is Empathy
400
An event may trigger two or more primary emotions simultaneously, resulting in an experience known as _________.
What is Blended Emotions
400
___________ is an individual’s characteristic way of thinking, feeling, and acting, based on the traits—enduring motives and impulses—that he or she possesses. (Chapter 3)
What is Personality
500
The first characteristic of competent interpersonal communication is _______ —the degree to which your communication matches situational, relational, and cultural expectations regarding how people should communicate.
What is Appropriateness
500
As we’re watching and evaluating our own actions, we also engage in ___________: observing and assigning meaning to others’ behavior and then comparing it with ours.
What is Social Comparison
500
When we use perception to size up other people, we form _____________ —mental pictures of who people are and how we feel about them.
What is Interpersonal Impressions
500
Managing your emotions is part of __________: the ability to interpret emotions accurately and to use this information to manage emotions, communicate them competently, and solve relationship problems
What is Emotional Intelligence
500
One way in which emotion is communicative is by talking about our emotional experiences with others, a form of communication known as ___________.