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Midterm 1 Flashcards

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Importance of IPC

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  1. allos us to establish/maintain/end connections
  2. enables us to change and progress
  3. purposeful and functional
  4. liberating and limiting
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Communication is defined as

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process through which people use messages to generate meaning within across contexts, cultures, channels, and media

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5 components of Comm

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  1. message: info we relay
  2. interaction: people exchange a series of messages
  3. context: situation and setting that influence how we communication
  4. channel: sensory way we transmit info (sound, sight, touch)
  5. media: tools for exchanging messages (email, text message)
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Interpersonal Comm is defined as

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dynamic form of comm between two (or more) people in which messages exchanged significantly influence their thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and relationships

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Principles of IPC

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  1. Conveys content and relationship info(ex. mom calling you with a nickname)
  2. can be intentional or unintentional
  3. can be irreversible
  4. can be dynamic
  5. is intertwined with ethics and moral principles
  6. is not a panacea(ex. not a solution for everything)
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IPC Competence

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ethical interactions that are effective at achieving a certain goal and in ways that are also appropriate to the context in which the interactions occur

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Appropriateness

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degree to which you comm matches situational, relational, and cultural expectations

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High self-monitors versus low self-monitors

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high: poses the ability and desire to alter their behaviors to fit any type of social interaction
Low: don’t asses their own comm (act like themselves)

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effectiveness is the

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ability to use comm to accomplish goals

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3 types of IPC goals

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  1. self-presentation goals: to present yourself in ways so that others perceive you as being a particular type of person
  2. instrumental goals: to accomplish or obtain something through a particular interpersonal encounter
  3. relationship goals: to build, maintain, or terminate bonds with others
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Maslow Hierarchy of needs: ego needs, social needs, and security needs, physical needs

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self actualizing needs: unique abilisties and best efforts

  1. ego needs: respect and admiration
  2. social needs: satisfying and healthy bonds
  3. security needs: safety and job security
  4. physical needs: air, foods, water, shelter (fundamentals)
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to behave effectively, appropriately, and ethically in a given context, we need: knowledge, motivation, and skill

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Knowledge: cognitive info you need to have about people and context to be able to say and do procedures to be performed
Motivation: degree to which people are drawn to or pushed away from comm competently in a given context
Skill: actual performance of the behaviors that are deemed appropriate and effective

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context

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boundaries we perceive that help us know what the comm is and what it is suppose to be

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ethics

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set of moral principles that guide our behaviors toward others

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self defined as

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who we are, how we perceive ourselves, and how we feel about ourselves

-self can change, it is not fixed or static, and it is multifaceted

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3 components of self

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  1. self awareness: the ability to view yourself as a unique person and then reflect on your thoughts, feeling, and behaviors
    ex. social comparison: what we engage in when comparing ourselves to others
  2. self -concept: our overall perception of who we are as influenced by beliefs, attitudes, and values we have about ourselves
    ex. looking glass self: how our self concept is influences by what we believe others think of us
    ex. self-fulfilling prophecies: predictions about future interactions that lead us to behave in ways that ensure the interaction unfolds as we predicted
  3. Self-esteem: the overall value that we assign to ourselves
    ex. self-discrepancy theory: suggests that your self esteem is determined by how you compare to your ideal self and out self
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self-fulfilling prophecies

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predictions about future interactions that lead us to

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self-discrepancy theory

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suggests that your self esteem is determined by how you compare to your ideal self and out self

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looking glass self

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how our self concept is influences by what we believe others think of us

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social comparison

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what we engage in when comparing ourselves to others

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Johari Window

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look at book

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4 Attachment Styles: secure, preoccupied, dismissive, and fearful

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  1. Secure: individuals are low on both anxiety and avoidance; they are comfy with intimacy and seek close ties with others
  2. Preoccupied: adults are high in anxiety and low in avoidance; they desire closeness but are plagued with fear of rejection
  3. Dismissive: they view close relationships as comparatively unimportant, instead prizing and prioritizing self reliance
  4. fearful: adults are high in both attachment anxiety and avoidance; they fear rejection and ten to shun relationships
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Face

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we present a public self- our face- that we want others to see and know (corky, upbeat or cool and level headed)

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Mask

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public self designed to strategically veil your private self; can be dramatic, subtle (parents not looking worried in front of kids)

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Social Penetration theory

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revealing the self to others involves peeling back or penetrating layers
three layers:
1. outermost, peripheral layer (age, name)
2. intermediate layer (music taste, political beliefs)
3. central layer (self awareness, concept, esteem, values)

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Perception Process

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an active process of creating meaning by selecting, organizing, and interpreting info from our sense
-selection and salience

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punctuating

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structuring the info into a chronological sequence that matches how we experience the order of events

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attributions

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explanations for why things happen or why people behave a certain way

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2 general typles of causes we use when making attributions: internal and external

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internal: disposition, personality, or character traits
external: situational or environmental factors

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Fundamental Attribution Erros

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The actor-observer effect: blaming other for something we messed up on
The Self serving bias: putting praise onto ourselves for everyone’s success

-we often attribute positive to internal sources and the negative to external sources

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personality

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characteristic way of thinking, feeling, and acting based on traits we possess

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BIG FIVE (OCEAN)

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  1. openness
  2. conscientiousness
  3. extraversion
  4. agreeableness
  5. neuroticism
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Implicit Personality Theory

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beliefs about different personality types and the ways in which personality traits cluster together

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Interpersonal Impressions

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beliefs about different personality types and the ways in which personality traits cluster together

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Gestalt

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general impressions of people either positive or negative

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Halo effect

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positive interpreting what someone says or does because we have a positive gestalt of them

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Horn effect

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negatively interpreting the comm of people for whom we have negative gestalts toward

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algebraic impressions

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comparing/assessing the pos/neg. info we learn about a person and calculating an overall impression

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Culture

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beliefs, values, social practices, norms among a certain group

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Idividualistiv cultures

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independence an personal achievement

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collectivist cultures

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group identity , interpersonal harmony, group well being

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uncertainty avoidance

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tolerance and acceptable of unpredicatblity

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Low uncertainty avoidance

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higher tolerance for uncertainty and ambiguity

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High uncertainty avoidance

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prefer to avoid uncertainty

45
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Power distance

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status of inequities

  • low PD: minimize social inequalities
  • high PD: accept the hierarchy of inequality as appropriate
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Masculinity versus Fem.

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the extent to which people prefer achievement and assertiveness or nurturance and social support

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Monochromic time orient

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time is precious resource

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polychromic time orient

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time is not a resource-time is flexible

ex. value harmonious interactions over “being on time”

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Perception Checking

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seeing things from others vantage point without necessarily experiences her/his emotions

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empathetic concern

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emotional concern for the person and his/her experience

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