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Exam 1 Flashcards

1
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What is the “comprehensive” definition of NVC?

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  1. Any communication, other than spoken or written words.
  2. Is anything that stimulates meaning in the mind of another person
  3. It expresses besides language.
  4. Transcends or goes above language
  5. It may be intentional or unintentional
  6. It channels most of our emotional messages
  7. We learn to make discussions between NV behavior and NVC.
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What is the definition for NVC?

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The process of one person stimulating meaning in the mind of another person by means of nonverbal messages.

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What are the 6 functions of NVC?

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  1. Complementing
  2. Contradicting
  3. Accenting or Emphasizing
  4. Repeating
  5. Regulating
  6. Substituting ot Replacing
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What are the 3 types of attractiveness?

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  1. Physical
  2. Social
  3. Task
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5
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Physical attractiveness becomes less important when?

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When task and social attractiveness increase

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What is Cultural and Time-bound?

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Attractiveness

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7
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Who spends the most money on cosmetic surgery in the world?

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The United States

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8
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What theory could attractiveness be used to describe?

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A Double Ended Sword

 - Women who are too attractive- they are not approachable
 - Women who are attractive - can get away with deception
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What does attractiveness rely on?

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A. Body endowment - Natural and enduring

B. Body Modification - Semi-permanent

C. Body Adornment - Short-lived changes

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10
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What are the 3 types of the body compared to Sheldon’s Research?

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  1. Endomorph- Pearshape/ round
  2. Mesomorph- Muscular/ Triangular
  3. Ectomorph- Painfully thin/ fragile
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What are the 3 Artifacts for NVC?

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  1. Adoring/ Decorating
  2. Serving
  3. Identifying
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What are the 5 Gesture and Movements to NVC?

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  1. Emblems
  2. Illustrators
  3. Regulators
  4. Adaptors
  5. Affect Displays
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Gesture and Movement:

What is Emblem?

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A NVB that has a direct verbal translation, Culture bound.

EX: Middle finger

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Gesture and Movement:

What is Illustrators?

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A company’s verbal message. Refers to what is being said.

EX: “Go East” - points east
“ Look at that!” - Points to “that”

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Gesture and Movement:

What is Regulators?

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A NVB that either controls or maintains the flow of conversation.

EX: A speaker is told to slow down or speed up or stop

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Gesture and Movement:

What is Adaptors?

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  • Almost always unintentional/ we do unintentionally.
  • Indicates nervousness, stress, boredom, or anxiety
  • Are often self- touches

EX: Twirling your hair/ touching your face

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Gesture and Movement:

What is Affect Displays?

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Body and most specifically eye that gives instant into your authentic emotions.

EX: When a finger is about to get crushed into a door our faces will wince with pain because we have the knowledge of pain is about to happen

18
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What is Deception and its factors?

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The particular behavior that is likely to show deception depends on several factors:

  1. Speed Speech
  2. Gestures
  3. Eye Contact
  4. Consequences
  5. Control head and face
  6. “Self-soothing”
19
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What is kinesics?

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The study of the communicative impact of body movement and gesture.

20
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Kinesics:

Structural Approach?

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All behavior is learned socially and has communicative value, the process is rule-based; no distinction between NVC and verbal;
“Systems Approach”

AKA: Work together/ Set Rules

21
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Kinesics:

External Variable Approach?

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Meaning can only be assigned if motion is easily observable meaning is both idiosyncratic and shared; NVC and verbal should be studied independently

AKA: Very little relation/ work separately

22
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Turn- Taking?

Regulators

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A. Turn- Yield (From Speaker- Stopping conversation)

B. Turn- Maintaining (From speaker- giving a sign to hold on)

C. Turn- Requesting (From listener- hand-raising)

D. Turn- Denying (From listener- speaker misread NVB)

23
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What are the 3 major categories to Posture according to Scheflen’s Body Orientation??

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  1. Inclusive vs. Noninclusive
  2. Face-to-Face vs. Parallel
  3. Congruence vs. Incongruence
24
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The 4 Facial Management Techniques?

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  1. Intensification- Using NV facial expression to intensify something
  2. De- Intensifying- When you lessen an emotion
  3. Neutralizing- “Poker face” not giving any NV expression
  4. Masking- Replacing what you really feel with what you think is acceptable
25
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What are the 3 divisions of affect blends and partials?

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  1. Eyebrows/ Forehead
  2. Eyes/ Eyelids/ Nose Bridge
  3. Mouth/ Cheeks/ Chin
26
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SCADFISH?

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S- sadness
C- Contempt 
A- Anger 
D- Disgust 
F- Fear
I- Intrest 
S- Suprise 
H- Happiness
27
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SADFISH?

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S- Sadness
A- Anger
D- Disgust
F- Fear
F- Fear
I - Intrest 
S- Suprise
H- Happiness
28
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What are the main paints to SCADFISH and SADFISH?

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** All Cross-Cultural

**If you can see aspects of the face than you can most accurately identify all of these

** All innate expressions we are born with

29
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What are the three perspectives on Acquisition?

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  1. Evolution and Natural Selection
  2. External Factors
  3. Innate and Learned
30
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What is Haptics?

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The study of communicative aspects of touch

31
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What is Oculesics?

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The study of communicative aspects of eye behavior

32
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What is Proxmetics?

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The study of communicative aspects of the scent and smell

33
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What is Image Fixation?

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a long-term fixated view that a person has about her or his image or body

34
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What are self-adaptors?

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NV acts in which an individual manipulates her or his own body

35
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What are Affect Blends?

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are multiple simultaneous facial expressions

36
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What is Neutralization?

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When people eliminate any facial expression of emotion

37
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What are Partials?

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Emotional expressions revealed in only one area of the face

38
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What are the 4 types of Eye Behavior?

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  1. One-Sided Look (glance or gaze)
  2. Gaze Aversion (tuupically intentional)
  3. Mutual Gaze (Two people look in the same direction as each other)
  4. Gaze Omission (one person does not look at the other but is not avoiding eye contact)
39
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What is a Dialect?

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The use of different words to reference similar meanings.

40
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What is Vocal Printing?

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A person can be identified by unique characteristics and qualities in her or his voice.

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