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Final Exam Flashcards

1
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The percentage of interpersonal communication that nonverbal communication accounts for

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60-70

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Proxemics

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The interrelated observations and theories of our use of space as a specialized elaboration of culture; usually divided into territory and personal space.

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Haptics

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The Study of touch and touching

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Physical Appearance

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The impression people have of others based on the body; personal aesthetics, clothing, body adaptor, and additions

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Kinesics

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The study of body movement and facial expression

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Vocalics

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The study of the communicative value of the voice and other sounds made by an individual; paralanguage.

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Norm of Reciprocity

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We should expect those with whom we communicate to respond in a manner similar to our original communication

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Sign

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Natural Representation of an event or fact

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Symbol

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Word takes the place of something else

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10
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Nature

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Nonverbal communication is part of the genetic structure of human beings

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Nurture

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Learn nonverbal communication norms from sources that nurture our communication

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High Context

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Information is either in the physical context or internalized in the coded, explicit part of the message

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Low Context

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More direct, precise, clear, and dependent on the verbal code for message transmission

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High Uncertainty vs. Low Uncertainty

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High Uncertainty- Many unwritten rules about what is acceptable and what is not…… How uncomfortable we are with being uncertain about how communication progresses in our society

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Mead’s Three-part Developmental Process

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  1. Imitation Stage- Mimicking Behavior without understanding 2. Play Stage- Learning what is appropriate/inappropriate 3. Game Stage- Manipulating NVC for desired Effect
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16
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Factors of Violating Haptic Expectations

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Location, Duration, Intensity

17
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Methods of Territorial Defense:

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Markers
Offensive Displays
Tenure

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Types of Markers

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Central Marker
Boundary Marker
Earmarker

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Secondary Space

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Space that you deem important but that you could live without; space not crucial to your emotional or physical environment

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Use Space

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Space claimed by people within their line of vision, or as instrumental in performing a function

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Surveillance

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Occurs when one perceived that they are being watched or observed by strangers

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Behavioral Constraint

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Occurs when freedom of movement is reduced; when you cannot spread out

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Stimuli Overload

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Occurs when there are too many noises, sights, and sounds bombarding you

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Crowding

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Perception that occurs when living beings perceive restrictions on their ability to move freely in a given area because of the presence of too many other beings

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Cocooning

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A withdrawal into oneself; creating a personal territorial behavior

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Territoriality

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Laying claim to an area and defending it against members of the same species

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Super Territory

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The desire by humans to attempt to maintain more territory than is actually needed for them to survive

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Personal Space

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Invisible space immediately surrounding the person, a body buffer zone

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Backchanneling

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Kinesic behaviors used to make the speaker feel they are being listened to

30
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Voice Set

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Prelinguistic area of vocalics, establishes a context from which the voice is to be evaluated; provides the background against which we hear the voice

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Vocal Segregates

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Nonwords that are used to fill pauses, or words and phrases used as meaningless filler

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Olfactics

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The study of how we use and perceive odors

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Smell Adaption

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Occurs when the odor you smell becomes part of your environment or general background

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Chronemics

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The study of how we use and structure time

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Birdwhistell

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We should only try to analyze the kinesic behavior of others when we have enough information about them to contextualize it. (Birdwhistell, 1974)

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Profane Time

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Explicit Time Systems

37
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Micro Time

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Culture Specific

38
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Personal Times

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Individual Time

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