Exam 2 Flashcards
What are the 7 parts to NVC?
- Any comm other than the spoken or written word.
- NVC is anything that stimulates meaning in the mind.
- It exists besides language.
- Transcends or goes above language
- Intentional or unintentional
- It channels most of our emotional messages
- We learn to make distinction between nonverbal behavior and NVC.
What is the definition of NVC?
The process of one person stimulating meaning in the mind of another person or persons by means of nonverbal messages.
What does SCADFISH stand for?
S- Sadness C- Contempt A- Anger D- Disgust F- Fear I - Intrest S- Suprise H -Happiness
What are the 8 categories of NVC?
- Physical Appearance
- Gesture and Movement (Kenesiscs)
- Face and Eye (Oculus)
- Vocals and Paralanguage
- Space and Territory (Proxmetics)
- Touch (Haptics)
- Environment
- Time (Chronemics)
What are the 5 categories to gesture?
- Emblems
- Illustrators
- Regulators
- Affect Displays
- Adaptors
Space vs. Territory
Territory- Refers to how people use space to communicate ownership or occupancy of an area.
Space- Regards to the space of a person. “A bubble”. A form of the area a person does not want others to invade.
The 6 categories of territory?
- Primary Territory
- Secondary Territory
- Public Territory
- Home Territory
- Interactional Territory
- Body Territory
Encroachment
Encroaching on other people’s space is a sign that a person wishes to increase intimacy or to intimidate
Hall’s Interpersonal Distance
Suggests that interpersonal relationship in which we are involved affects the distance we place between ourselves and others.
Crowding
is a person’s perception of spatial restrictions
Density
Refers to number of people in a space.
Impact of High Density
High Density is a large number of people in a given area.
- Spending less time with each other
- Disregarding low-priority interactions
- Shifting the responsibility for some transactions to others
- Blocking others out
Fixed-Featured Space
A space that is fixed or immobile.
EX: Homes, Schools, layouts of towns or cities
Semi Fixed-Feature Space
Includes the moveable objects in our environment
EX: Furniture, accessories, and accents
The 6 perceptual characteristics of environment
- Formality
- Warmth
- Privacy
- Familiarity
- Constraint
- Distance
What are pheromones?
A chemical excretion that is unique to every animal in the Aminal Kingdom.
What is Smell Memory?
Smells that provoke memories from the past
What is Smell Blindness?
An individual who cannot receive or process smells.
What is Smell Adaptation?
Going from one scent to another
What is marasmus?
The “waisting away disease”
EX: babies and toddlers who are taken care of with clean environments, but they are deprived of touch. This made the children die or stunt growth.
What is skin hunger
You physical being absolutely the need to have human contact,
The 5 categories of touch
- Proffesional-function: NO HANDSHAKE. Impersonal, made to finish a task or service.
- Socail/ Polite: Handshake! Is tied to cultural norms
- Friendship- warmth: Let’s another person know you are there for them. Acknowledging.
- Love-Intimacy: Kissing. Showing love.
- Sexual Arousal: Touch only for sexual arousal.
What is the earliest form of communication?
Touch communication!
It is essential for human development
What is the difference between P-Time and M-Time?
P-Time: Polychronic time.
-You do may things @ one time.
M-Time: Monochronic time.
- You do one thing @ a time.
What does SAD stand for?
What does it mean?
S- seasonal
A- affect
D- disorder.
-The lack of Vitamin D.
(This is biological and physical)
Physical Time Orientation
How you individually view and treat time.
“We view our time as more important than others time”
Biological Time Orientation
How time affects you physically.
- What our body does over time from stress and anxiety.
(EX: Full moon/ Weather)
Cultural Time Orientation
How time is treated in different cultures.
- America: It is important to not to be late.
Time: Owl ?
A person who functions better in the late afternoon through the night time.
Time: Sparrow ?
A person who functions early in the morning to mid afternoon
Time: Sprowl?
Someone who functions in both night and day hours.
Interactional Territories
Are special places that develop wherever people congregate for social exchange.
Density
Refers to number of people in a space.
Offensive displays
Are assertive or aggressive postures, stances, stares, and gestures
Linguistic Collusion
When a group of people defending their territory, verbally and nonverbally makes the intruder feel like an outsider.
Chromodynamics
The study of the physiological effects caused by observing color
Olfactics
The study of scents and smells and how people perceive and process info about them
Gentling behavior
The stroking and touching of animal newborns
Chronemics
The study of how a culture perceives, uses, studies, structures, interprets and reacts to messages of time
Technical Time
refers to precise scientific measurements of time.
