Advanced Communication Theory
In high-stakes situations, such as police interrogations or competitive negotiations, this type of nonverbal communication can serve as a crucial indicator of deceit or concealed emotions
Nonverbal Leakage
What is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person called?
Empathy
This type of nonverbal communication involves the use of physical space to convey messages.
Proxemics
What type of language explicitly identifies the speaker as the source of a message and takes ownership?
"I" Language
What term refers to using language that classifies one racial group as superior to another?
Racist Language
This theory emphasizes how marginalized groups can have a more complete understanding of social hierarchies and power dynamics due to their dual perspectives on society.
Standpoint Theory
Which dimension of empathy focuses on adopting the viewpoint of another person?
Perspective Taking
Facial expressions and body movements fall under this category of nonverbal communication.
Kinesics
These statements attempt to distance the speaker from the content of the message, often appearing tentative or indirect.
"It" Statements
This type of language can perpetuate biases by unnecessarily differentiating between genders or trivializing one gender.
Sexist Language
In Fundamental Attribution Error, individuals might blame another person's faults on this, but understand their own faults as this.
Internal or Personal Characteristics; External Factors beyond their control
This term is often confused with empathy but actually involves feeling for someone rather than with them.
Sympathy
This form of nonverbal communication includes variations in speech, such as tone, loudness, and pitch.
Paralanguage
What kind of statements cancel the thought that precedes them and can be confusing or seem like backtracking?
"But" Statements
This concept involves language that gains meaning by comparison, such as terms like "fast" and "slow," which are defined through their relation to other terms.
Relative Language
This effect explains why people hang on to their 1st impressions, people have a tendency to pay more attention to and recall things that happen first
Primacy Effect
Name a skill that can help build empathy by allowing communicators to clarify and share their perceptions effectively.
Perception Checking
The use of physical touch to communicate messages
Haptics
This form of communication expresses a judgment of another person and is likely to provoke defensiveness.
"You" Language
What term refers to adapting one's speech style to match that of others, often to signal affiliation or solidarity to create bonding language?
Convergence
According to Hall's Zones of Distance, the distance one might stand from another person during a casual conversation in North America typically falls into this specific zone.
Personal Distance
The affective dimension of empathy where we experience the same feelings that others have. We know their fear, joy, sadness, etc
Emotional Contagion
This type of nonverbal communication involves maintaining, avoiding, or giving eye contact.
Oculesics
What language implies a collective action or opinion, suggesting that both the speaker and listener are involved, creating verbal immediacy?
"We" Language
The term for using speech that sets yourself apart from others, emphasizing the difference between groups, such as when teens adopt new slang different from other age groups
Divergence