Communication Flashcards
What are qualifiers?
Phrases such as I guess, sort of, I mean, you know that expresses uncertainty.
What term describes the extent to which topics introduced to a conversation are related?
Topical cohesion
Phrases such as I guess, sort of, I mean, you know that expresses insecurity are known as?
Qualifiers
What term describes a variety of verbal and nonverbal responses to another’s utterances, such as sentence completion and nodding?
Back-channeling
What do we call the shared system for encoding, storing, and retrieving information?
Transactive memory
The separate culture hypothesis suggest that men’s and women’s communication patterns are what?
That men’s and women’s communication patterns are so different that they resemble distinct cultures.
Describe positive illusion.
Beliefs that are more positive than the reality warrants about your partner.
What term describes the beliefs that are more positive than the reality warrants?
Positive illusion
What term is used to describe the process through which people try to control the impression other people form about them?
Self-presentation
What term describes the process through which people reveal more of themselves to others?
Self-disclosure
Describe the sex differences in communication patterns according to the different- cultures theoretical account.
Men and women live in different emotional cultures.
Men and women have different but equally effective ways of dealing with emotional experience.
Men an women will turn to their own sex for support.
Men and women will feel more supported by members of their own sex.
Describe sex differences in communication patterns according to the skill- specialization account.
Men and women live in the same emotional culture.
Women have more effective ways of dealing with emotional experience than do men.
Men and women will turn to women for support.
Men and women will feel more supported by women.
Name the 4 interpersonal distances:
1) public space
2) social space
3) personal space
4) intimate distance
