INTRApersonal Communication Flashcards
INTRApersonal Communication
Define: Intrapersonal Communication
The internal process of talking to yourself, or self-communication
“I will do better next time”
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Define: Cognition
Processes of the mind through which people come to understand, know, perceive, evaluate, and remember the world around us
Thinking
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Define: Perception
The process by which an organism assimilates, or makes sense out of, and uses sensory data
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How do we “see” the world?
ABV
- Attitudes
- Beliefs
- Values
What are the roles of attitudes, beliefs, values in human’s internal desires for consistency?
Selectivity supports our desire for internal consistency
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Define: Cognitive Dissonance
- Inner desire to be consistent in words deeds and thoughts
- Inconsistency creates discomfort - Dissonance
- Basically when our self view doesn’t align with our thoughts and actions
An A+ student getting a C
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Why do some commercial advertisers seek to create cognitive dissonance in viewers of their ads?
Discomfort can cause us to adjust or change, buying their product
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Define: Signals
- Indicates
- 1 TO 1
- Unambiguous relationship
If my tempurature is 104 I have a fever
104 is 104 not possibly 105
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Define: Symbols
- Suggests Relationship
- 1 TO Many
- Ambiguous relationship
“What is a friend?”
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4 INTRApersonal Comm Theories
- Speech Act Theory
- Semiotics
- Inner Speech Theory
- Symbolic Interaction Theory
Speech Act Theory
What does Speech Act Theory argue?
Talking V. Doing & Rhetoric V. Reality is a False Dichotomy
Speech Act Theory
Why does the Speech Act Theory claim its a False Dichotomy?
- Speech IS Action
- We “use” words to “do” things
- When using words, we’re “taking action
Speech Act Theory
What are examples of what we do with words?
RAIC
- Reveal our thinking
- Assert our views
- Invite others to “see” from out perspective
- Commit ourselves to something or someone
Gorgias: Speech is a powerful lord
Semiotics
What does Semiotics study?
- What:The study of how signs operate in society
- Why: Signs are ambiguous culturally and socially and can not be predicted by their form alone
Semiotics
Signifiers V. Signifieds
- Signifier: Conveys the meaning
- Signified: The meaning conveyed
Letters - SIGNS/SYMBOLS Words - Stand for something else
Tree could’ve been called dog
Semiotics
Example of Semiotics In advertising
Geico, Mcdonalds Jingle, State Farm
Inner Speech Theory - THE MIND
What does the Inner Speech Theory examine and why?
- External speech patterns
- Internal thought patterns
- Offers valuable insights into the development of thought, self-awareness, and our ability to engage with the world around us
Interaction to Mentation, Mentation to Interaction
Inner Speech Theory - THE MIND
Define: Mentation
Thinking/Thought Process
Inner Speech Theory - THE MIND
How and why do inner speech theorists argue that humans move from interaction to mentation, and then mentation to interaction?
Inner Speech Theory
Define: Interiority
- Lead to more complex inner lives
- Higher mental processes
Inner Speech Theory
Define: Decentering
- Imagination
- Placing yourself outside your own immediate experience
Get outside yourself
Symbolic Interaction Theory
3 important Concepts of the Symbolic Interaction Theory
- Mind
- Self
- Society
Symbolic Interaction Theory
Symbolic Interaction Theory: MIND
- The ways we internalize society
- The ability to use symbols that have common social meanings and that are developed through interaction with others
Symbolic Interaction Theory
Symbolic Interaction Theory: SELF
- The ability to reflect on ourselves from the perspectives of others
- A sense of Identity is developed
- Others are objects of our messages
I TO YOU - We are objects of others’ messages
YOU TO ME - We are objects of our own messages
I TO ME TO I
Symbolic Interaction Theory
Symbolic Interaction Theory: SOCIETY
- The web of social relationships that human beings are born into and go on to create and in which they engage in behaviors chosen voluntarily as individuals
- “Lives” and “grows” through Interaction
- Not a “mass” but collectivity of indivisuals
Symbolic Interaction Theory
What is the “Looking Glass Self”?
Imagining how I look to another person or how they “see” me
Symbolic Interaction Theory
What are the 3 principles on which the concept of the “Looking-Glass Self” is based?
- We imagine how we appear to others
- We imagine their judgment of our appearance
- Our “imaginings” result in hurt or pride
Symbolic Interaction Theory
What is the “Generalized Other”?
- Looking glass
- How others would think/say
