Importance Of Nonverbal Communication

Question 1

Communication

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the process of creating meaning between 2+ people through the exchange of signs

Question 2

Nonverbal Communication

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exchange of signs that are other-directed and used with some degree of volition as part of a message

Question 3

Sign

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Something that stands for something else

Question 4

Senders

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encode thoughts into messages/commonly understood signs

Question 5

Receivers

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decode messages by recognizing, interpreting and evaluating the signs used by senders

Question 6

Information

Answer 6

anything that reduces uncertainty

Question 8

Is NVC or verbal communication more trusted?

Answer 8

NVC

Question 9

How much information comes from NVC

Answer 9

60%

Question 10

Explain why NVC is Pancultural

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There are certain aspects of NVC that can be understood across all cultures

Question 11

Redundancy

Answer 11

duplicating the verbal message

Question 11

Define Omnipresent and its relation to NVC

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Widely and constantly encountered. NVC is everywhere, in FtF interactions, text communication, mediated communication

Question 12

How is NVC multifunctional

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Motives, outcomes, and goals

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Complementation

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Amplifying/elaborating on the verbal message

Question 13

list the 5 functions of NVC

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Redundancy, substitution, complementation, emphasis, and contradiction

Question 14

Substitution

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replacing the verbal message

Question 15

Emphasis

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highlighting the verbal message

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Contradiction

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Sending opposite signals of the literal meaning of the verbal message

Question 17

phylogenic Primacy

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NVC came before verbal communication in evolution
-eyes dilating, sweating

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Ontogenic primacy

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NVM develops first as we grow from fetuses to adults
-Nursing, grasping, crying

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Interaction Primacy

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NVM comes first when we interact with others
Verbal cues: appearance, gestures, facial expressions
Environmental cues- the appearance of setting, space

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Temporal primacy

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getting the first word in

Question 21

Triangle of meaning

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Circle between thought, referent, and signs

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Thought(in Triangle of meaning)

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the idea being referenced

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Signs(triangle of meaning)

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the encoded message or something that stands for something else

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Referent(triangle of meaning)

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The thing the sign represents
-a concept, feeling, onject, etc)

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Source orientation

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A perspective of NVC
-when something is communicative and what it means is up to the person engaging in the cues

Question 26

Receiver orientation

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-anything a receiver interprets as a message is communication regardless of the sources intent or awareness

Question 27

Message orientation

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A perspective of NVC
-the determination of meaning and whether a cue was communicative depends on the larger communicative system in which the behavior occurred, rather than from the individuals in the communicative act

Question 28

Interaction orientation

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A perspective of NVC
-People in communication work together to determine the intent/meaning of the message

Question 29

Social meaning model

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A perspective of NVC
-many nonverbal cues have meanings that largely transcend context