Feeling of anxiety that some people experience at the prospect of communication in an unfamiliar or difficult context.
What communication apprehension?
100
Expressing messages without considering the consequences of doing so.
What is inhibition?
200
Medium through which messages are exchanged.
What is channel?
200
Causal relationship that occurs when a person's expectations of an event and his or her subsequent behavior based on those expectations make the outcome more likely to occur than would otherwise have been true.
What is self-fulling prophecy?
200
Both the physical setting in which communications occurs and the personal perspective of the people involved.
What is environment?
200
An acceleration of the discussion of personal topics and relational development.
What is hyper personal communication?
300
Model that describes the relationship between self-disclosure and self-awareness.
What is Johari window?
300
Groups against which we compare ourselves, thereby influencing our self-concept and self-esteem.
What is reference groups?
300
Ability to construct a variety of frameworks for viewing an issue.
What is cognitive complexity?
300
The part of the self-concept that involves evaluations of self-worth.
What is self-esteem?
400
Model that describes relationships in terms of the breadth and depth.
What is Social penetration?
400
Image a person presents to others.
What is presenting self?
400
Process of deliberately revealing information about oneself that is significant and that would not normally be known by others.
What is self disclosure?
400
Evaluating oneself in terms of or by comparison to others.
What is social comparison?
500
Process of attending to one's behavior and using these observations to shape the way one behaves.
What is self monitoring?
500
The dynamic process in which communicators create meaning together through interaction.
What is transitional?
500
Theory that a person's self-concept matches the way the person believes others regard him or her.
What is reflected appraisal?
500
Communication strategies people use to influence how others view them.