Ch 1: Your Guide to Interpersonal Communication
This type of communication involves two people but does not necessarily involve a relationship.
What is dyadic interaction?
This refers to the image and beliefs you have about yourself.
What is self-concept?
This type of attraction is non-romantic and far more prevalent in everyday life.
What is platonic attraction?
This is the “weeding out” stage where most relationships end.
What is experimenting?
This positive strategy involves showing commitment and investment in the relationship.
What are assurances?
This type of communication is talking to yourself or engaging in inner dialogue.
What is intrapersonal communication?
These are the three major components shaping self-esteem.
What are performance, social, and physical?
This factor suggests we’re attracted to people we see frequently.
What is proximity?
This stage is marked by increased self-disclosure and direct expressions of commitment.
What is intensifying?
This negative strategy includes monitoring a partner beyond normal interaction.
What is spying?
According to your notes, interpersonal communication requires this — not just two people present.
What is the presence of a relationship?
This cognitive bias causes low-expertise individuals to overestimate their abilities.
What is the Dunning-Kruger Effect?
This theory proposes love consists of intimacy, passion, and commitment.
What is the Triangular Theory of Love?
This coming-apart stage involves limiting conversations to “safe” topics.
What is circumscribing?
This type of relational message refers to attempts to exert control.
What is dominance?
In the SMCR model, this disrupts message transmission and reception.
What is noise?
This theory suggests we develop our self-concept based on how we think others see us.
What is the looking-glass self?
These two elements signal romantic interest through body language.
What are closeness and mirroring (agreement)?
This stage occurs when partners publicly announce commitment (engagement/marriage).
What is bonding?
These three strategies help maintain nonvoluntary relationships.
What are avoidance, disengagement, and cognitive dissociation?
This model describes communication as continuous, without clear turn-taking.
What is the Transaction Model?
In the Johari Window, this pane contains information others know about you that you don’t.
What is the blind spot?
This Greek term refers to obsessive, jealous love.
What is mania?
This is the final stage of relational dissolution.
What is terminating?
In high-context cultures, communication is more ____ and often relies on ____ cues.
What is implicit and nonverbal?