Comm midterm Flashcards
Semantic interference
When the receiver misunderstands a hand signal from the sender
Pygmalion Effect
Others can influence one’s development (and behavior)
Looking glass self
Evaluating yourself based on how you think others perceive you
Frog pond effect
Purposely compare ourselves to others to gain confidence
Selective attention
Ability to process some of the stimuli and block out others
Symbol
Something that stands for something else
Ritual Language
Someone gives you an automated or conventionalized response
Kinesic slip
When verbal and nonverbal communication contradict each other
Sapir-whorf hypothesis
The world is perceived differently by members of different linguistic communities
Implicit personality theory
A theory that represents behavior and traits that a person thinks go together
Convergence
When computing, telecommunications, and media merge in a digital environment
Denotative
Literal real definition
Connotations
Attaching other meanings in our head/secondary associations
75% of the day is spent ___
verbally communicating
Speech Communication Process
Message->channel->feedback
Interpersonal Communication
Talking to yourself, internal dialogue
CMC
Computer Mediated Communication
Physiological filter
Built into us
Phycological
Expectations/predispositions that affect what we perceive
Perceptual process
Select, organize, and interpret information
Pygmalion effect
One’s development is influenced by others’ expectations
93% of all communication is
Nonverbal
Emblems
Body movements that translates directly into words
A regulator
Controls the back and fourth flow of conversation
Adaptor
Nonverbal ways of adapting to a particular situation
Illustrator
Accent, emphasizes or reinforces words
Haptics
Nonverbal (touch)
Proxemics
The study of personal space
Intimate distance
18 inches
Personal distance
1-4 feet
Chronemics
Arriving late, leaving early, not showing up at all
