Exam #1- Ch.1 -Ch. 4 Vocabulary Flashcards
Affiliation
The feeling of contentedness you have with others.
Dyad
Two or more people
Schemas
A mental structure that puts together individual but related bits of information.
Selective perception
Biased perception- constitutes active thought.- Active, critical thought resulting in a communicator succumbing to the biased nature of perception.
Ethnocentrism
A belief in the superiority of one’s own culture or group and a tendency to view other cultures through the lens of one’s own.
Prejudice
A deep-seated feeling of unkindness and ill will toward particular groups, usually based on negative stereotypes and feeling of superiority over those groups.
Critical Listening
Evaluating or analyzing information, evidence, ideas, or opinions: also known as evaluative listening.
Self-fulfilling prophecies
A prediction that causes an individual to alter his or her behavior in a way that makes the prediction more likely to occur.
Euphemisms
An inoffensive word or phrase that substitutes for terms that might be perceived as upsetting.
Equivocation
Use of words that have unclear or misleading definitions.
Evasion
Intentionally failing to provide specific details.
Jargon
Technical language that is specific to members of a particular profession, interest group, or hobby.
Slang
Language that is informal, nonstandard, and usually particular to a specific group.
Semantics
The study of the relationship among symbols, objects, people, and concepts; refers to the meaning that words have for people, either because of their definitions or because of their placement in a sentence’s structure.
Channel Discrepancy
When one set of behaviors says one thing, and another set says something different.
