The medium through which the messages pass in the linear communication model.
What is a channel?
100
Positive or negative predictions of our behavior, improsed by others and/or ourselves.
What are self-fulfilling prophecies?
100
The process of determining the causal order of events.
What is punctuation?
100
The state of being "crazy" in love that shows up at the beginning of relationships and typically fades within six months.
What is limerence?
100
The model of communication that uses the word "communicator" instead of "sender" and "receiver" to describe individuals involved in the process of communicating.
What is the transactional model of communication?
200
Two Northwest U students are on a first date at Starbucks. This is the communication term for the two people who are interacting.
What is a dyad?
200
A person whose opinions we especially value.
Who is a significant other?
200
The attitude that one's culture is superior to others.
What is ethnocentrism?
200
A Roman myth says that roses grew when Cupid was carrying this liquid to the gods on Mt. Olympus. Cupid spilled this liquid and from that spot roses grew.
What is nectar?
200
The forces within a communicator that interfere with the ability to express or understand a message accurately.
What is psychological noise?
300
The act of paying attention to our behavior in relationships.
What is self-monitoring?
300
The person we believe ourselves to be in moments of candor. May be identical with or different from the presenting self and ideal self.
What is the perceived self?
300
Groups against which a person compares him/herself.
What are reference groups?
300
1 billion.
What is the number of Valentine's Day greeting cards sent each year via USPS?
300
The process of judging ourselves by how we think others evaluate or judge us.
What is reflected appraisal?
400
The needs we have to define who we are.
What are identity needs?
400
The part of the self-concept that involves an individual's evaluations of his or her self-worth.
What is self-esteem?
400
Someone who helps enhance your self-esteem by acting in ways that make you feel accepted, important, and loved.
Who is an ego-booster?
400
The ability to re-create another person's perspective.
What is empathy?
500
The needs we have to get others to behave in ways we want.
What are instrumental goals?
500
The theory that a person's self-concept mirrors the way the person believes others regard him or her.
What is reflected appraisal?
500
The tendency to seek and attend to information that conforms to an existing self-concept.
What is cognitive conservatism?
500
It comes from the Latin word valor, meaning worthy.
What is Valentine?
500
A method for understanding an issue from several perspectives rather than with an egocentric "I'm right and you're wrong" attitude.