Models and Principles of Interpersonal Communication
Communication about communication.
What is metacommunication?
Specific important people who help shape our sense of self and identity.
Who are particular others?
Sequences of activities that are expected of us and others in particular situations (e.g. a job interview, running into an acquaintance on campus, etc.).
What are scripts?
Language that accepts personal responsibility instead of blaming others.
What is I-language?
Focusing only on particular parts of communication.
What is selective listening?
The literal meaning of communication (as opposed to the relationship-level meaning).
What is content-level meaning?
Communication that tells us explicitly how others see us (e.g. "You're smart" or "You're funny").
What is direct definition?
The three steps in the process of perception.
What are 1) selection, 2) organization, 3) interpretation?
Shared understandings of what communication means and what kinds of communication are appropriate in particular situations.
What are communication rules?
Being fully present in the moment.
What is mindfulness?
This model understands communication as a dynamic process and considers all participants to be communicators (instead of identifying a singular sender or receiver).
Our perception of another's view of us.
Overestimating the internal causes of others' behavior and underestimating the external causes.
In nonverbal communication, a term that refers to body position and body motions, including those of the face.
What is kinesics?
Continuously focusing communication on ourselves instead of listening to the person who is talking.
What is monopolizing?
Anything that distorts communication such that it is harder for people to understand each other (can be physical, psychological, semantic, etc.).
What is noise?
An attachment style that can be developed when a child's caregiver provides inconsistent care.
What is anxious/ambivalent (preoccupied) attachment?
The clearest or most representative example of some category (e.g. the person who exemplifies "friend" to you).
What is a prototype?
In nonverbal communication, a term that refers to space and how we use it.
What is proxemics?
What is ambushing?
The middle level of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
Self-Actualization Needs
Self-Esteem Needs
__________________
Safety and Protection Needs
Physical Needs for Survival
What are belonging needs?
An attachment style that can be developed when a child's caregiver acts disinterested in, rejecting of, or unavailable to them.
What is dismissive (avoidant) attachment?
A "mental yardstick" we use to measure a person or situation along a bipolar dimension of judgment (e.g. intelligent–unintelligent, kind–unkind, etc.).
What is a personal construct?
Personal objects we use to announce our identities and heritage and to personalize our environments (e.g. hairstyles, clothing, profession-specific attire, home decor, etc.).
What are artifacts?
Listening only for content and ignoring the relationship level of meaning.
What is literal listening?