Chapter 1-3 Flashcards
Communication
The process where by humans collectively create and regulate social reality.
Communicative Competence
ability to communicate in a personally effective and socially appropriate manner.
Process Competence
the cognitive activity and knowledge that allows individuals to generate preformative competence; everything we know in order to communicate competently.
Implicit Knowledge
knowledge we don’t stop to think about, that we use unconsciously to guide our behavior.
Interpretive Competence
the ability to label, organize, and interpret the conditions surrounding an interaction.
Role Competence
The ability to take on social roles and know what is appropriate behavior given these roles.
Message Competence
Ability to make message choices that others can comprehend as well as to attend to and understand the message choice of others.
Verbal Competence
Using language effectively
Nonverbal competence
Using nonverbal codes effectively
Listening competence
Processing messages effectively
Culture
The set of values, beliefs, customs, and codes that bind people together.
approximeeting
Tendency to avoid scheduling specific appointments.
Sexting
Using cell phones to send suggetive photos of oneself to others.
process perspective
becoming aware of what’s going on when you communicate, and beginning to recognize how the underlying processes involved in communication manifest themselves in everyday preformance.
Situational Approach
belief that interpersonal communication occurs whenever two people are in face to face interactions regardless of the intimacy of that interaction.
Developmental Approach
Belief that interpersonal communication occurs only when two people get to know each other deeply, by exchanging information at the psychological level
Interpersonal Communication
Communication between two people, generally face-to-face interaction.
Ex: asking a profesor what will be on test.
Dyadic Communication
two person communication; another name for interpersonal communication.
-spontaneous, informal, flexible roles, maximum feedback.
Small-group Communication
Communication among three or more individuals in which each member knows every other member and can interact freely with all others.
Ex: group projects
Organizational Communication
Communication in large businesses or industries and government institutions.
ex: communication in army
Face-to-face Public Communication
When a speaker adresses a large group simultaneously.
ex: presidental canidate adressing a national convention.
Mediated Public(or mass) Communication
Audience is large but transmission is indirect.
Ex:nightly news broadcast.
Relationships as Constellations of Behaviors
A relationship is equivant to the interdependent actions of two people; the way two people behave toward each other is their relationship.
Relationships as Cognitive Constructs
A relationship is the way we think about out behaviors.
ex: interacting with another person, forming mental image and compare to prototype
Relationships as Mini-Cultures
People in relationships create unique understandings and values that constitue their relational culture.
Relationships as Collections of Contradictory Forces
Relationships can be defined by the ways in which partners view and resolve dialectical tensions.
What are the characteristics of relationships?
- Interpersonal relationships begin with awareness.
- looking up and seeing someone staring at you. - Interpersonal relationships develop through coordinated interaction.
- welcome interaction to lead to development of deeper relationship - As relationships unfold, we begin to analyze and evaluate them.
- mental representations - Our relationships are influenced by outside forces
- cultural norms&media models, approval of family&friends, when surroundings are stressful relationship suffers. - Our relationships can control us as much as we control them.
- Relationships are constructed and maintained through communication.
- we recreate and refine everytime we communicate.
Memory Organization Packets(MOPS)
Memories of what has happend in the relationship; helps us stabilize and define the relationship. ex:breakups
Relational Prototype
A mental guide that specifies what a certain kind of relationship should look like.
Natural Language Label
Words or word we use to describe a relationship. ex: friend
Criteral Attributes
Characteristics a relationship must have to be classifed by a given language label ex: trust shown by keeping secrets.
Private Relationships
Close, personal relationships; makes difference who partner is. Rules of behavior are individualistic, Rewards intrinsic.
Public Relationship
Relationships that are formal and distant; members substitutable and autonomous, rules are normative, rewards are extrinsic