The process of making sense out of the world and sharing that sense with others by creating meaning through verbal and nonverbal messages.
What is human communication.
100
A system of symbols structured by rules and patterns common to a community of people.
What is a language?
100
A thing or action that signifies that an area has been claimed.
What is a territorial marker?
100
Checking the accuracy of your understanding by restating your partner's message in your own words.
What is paraphrasing?
100
Communication between people who have different cultural traditions.
What is intercultural communication?
200
The element of the self reflected in all the tangible things you own.
What is the material self
200
The ability to understand and feel what another person is feeling.
What is empathy?
200
Clothing or another element of appearance.
What is an artifact?
200
The step of the listening process where meaning is assigned to the message.
What is understanding?
200
An acknowledgment that someone is feeling a certain emotion.
What is sympathy?
300
Asking someone else whether you interpretations of what you perceive are correct.
What is direct perception checking?
300
The restrictive, or literal, meaning of a word.
What is denotative?
300
The study of how close or far away from people and objects we position ourselves.
What is proxemics?
300
Listeners who prefer to focus on the emotions and feelings.
What is a relational listener?
300
A culture that places a high value on collaboration, teamwork, and group achievement.
What is a collectivistic culture?
400
An enduring concept of good and bad or right and wrong.
What are values?
400
Meaning that refers to something that can be perceived with one of the senses.
What is concrete?
400
The study of human movements, gestures, and posture.
What is kinesics?
400
The fear of misunderstanding or misinterpreting the messages spoken by others.
What is receiver apprehension?
400
A culture in which people derive much information from the words of a message and less information from nonverbal and environmental cues.
What is a low-context culture?
500
The notion that predictions about one's future are likely to come true because one believes they will come true.
What is the self-fulfilling prophecy?
500
A communication problem that arises when the same word means different things to different people.
What is bypassing?
500
A model that suggests that we develop rules for appropriate nonverbal behavior and react when those rules are violated.
What is Judee Burgoon's expectancy violations model.
500
Stepping away from your own thoughts and attempting to experience the thoughts of another.
What is social decentering or decentering?
500
The stage on intercultural communication competence where the person recognizes that there are other cultural perspectives, but suggests that there are no real differences in the way people behave and interact.