Chapter 4: Non- Verbal Communication Flashcards
The process of signaling meaning through behavior other than words
Nonverbal communication
Words and actions don’t match, and nonverbal behaviors are more likely to be believed than verbal ones
Channel discrepancy
Mirroring the verbal message
Repeating
Reinforcing the verbal message
Complementing
Emphasizing a part of the verbal message
Accenting
Replacing words
Substituting
Conveying the opposite of your verbal message
Contradicting
Feeling of closeness
Immediacy
When you attempt to use nonverbal behaviors to convince others of something that is false
Deception
The weight gestures and body movements in various messages
Kinesics
Movements with direct verbal translation a specific group or culture
Emblems
Visually reinforcing behaviors
Illustrators
Interaction management cues
Regulators
Unconscious release of barley tension
Adapters
Indications of a motion
Affect displays
Facial management technique whereby we were placed an expression of true feeling with one appropriate for a given interaction
Masking
The study of the use of the eyes and communication setting
Oculesics
How we pause, the speed and volume of our speech, in the inflections we use our vocalized nonverbal messages
Paralanguage
Local variation that gives prominence to certain words or syllables
Pitch
Local modulation that expresses feelings of moods
Town
How loud or soft words are spoken
Volume
Paralanguage stick to use that give information about the speakers emotional or physical state, such as laughing, crying, or sign
Vocalizations
Vocalizations that signal vocally but nonverbally that you do or don’t want to talk
Back – channel cues
The way we use and communicate with space
Proximics
Excess Ariz used for decoration and identification
Artifacts
The cleaning of an area, with or without legal basis, by regular occupation of the area
Territoriality
The perception of and use of time and nonverbal communication
Chronemics
The use of touch to send messages
Haptics
This type of cultures are more likely to communicate through touch
Contact cultures
These type of cultures may tend to avoid touch
Noncontact cultures
The physical space that affects our nonverbal communication
Public – private dimension
This dimension is more physiological
Informal – formal dimension
