midterm Flashcards
A physiological process.
HEARING
- A complex affective, cognitive, and behavioral
process. - Most widely used daily communication activity.
LISTENING
- a process which Motivates a person to attend to a message.
AFFECTIVE PROCESS
- a process which is Understanding and interpreting the message’s
meaning.
COGNITIVE PROCESS
- Related to responding with verbal and nonverbal
feedback.
BEHAVIOURAL PROCESS
- Choosing to listen because the person likes their style
or they engage..
APPRECIATIVE LISTENING
- Choosing to listen to recall information.
COMPREHENSIVE LISTENING
- Choosing to listen to understand and critically evaluate
the worth of the message. - Requires more psychological processing than the other
types of listening.
CRITICAL LISTENING
- The anxiety a person feels about listening.
- This may increase when a person worries about
misinterpreting the message making it difficult to focus
on the message.
LISTENING APPREHENSION
- This is a person’s favored and usually unconscious
approach to listening. - May be influenced by cultural and co-cultural identity.
LISTENING STYLE
- Focuses on and evaluates the facts and
evidence. - Appreciate the details and enjoy processing
complex messages. - Highly likely to ask questions to get even more
information.
CONTENT-ORIENTED LISTENER
- Focuses on the feelings their conversational
partner may have. - Tend to notice whether their partners are
pleased or upset and encourage them to
continue using nonverbal cues.
PEOPLE-ORIENTED LISTENER
- Focuses on the ultimate point the speaker is
trying to make. - Tend to get frustrated when ideas are
disorganized and when the person rambles. - Often anticipate what the speaker is going to
say and may even finish their sentence for
them.
ACTION-ORIENTED LISTENER
- Prefer brief and hurried conversations and
often use nonverbal and verbal cues to signal
that the speaker needs to be more concise. - may tell others exactly how much time they
have to listen, interrupt when time pressured,
regularly check the time, or rapidly nod their
heads for the speaker to pick up the pace.
TIME-ORIENTED LISTENER
- The habitual and unconscious process of
receiving messages. - May only attend to certain parts of the
message and assume the rest.
PASSIVE LISTENING
- Deliberate and conscious process of attending
to, understanding, remembering, evaluations,
and responding to messages.
ACTIVE LISTENING
- The process of intentionally perceiving and focusing on
a message.
ATTENDING
- Accurately interpreting a message.
UNDERSTANDING
Paraphrasing that Focuses on the denotative
meaning of the message.
content paraphrase
paraphrasing that Focuses on the emotions
attached to the message.
feelings paraphrase
______ is intellectually identifying with the
feelings or attitudes of another person.
empathy
experiences an emotional
response parallel to the
other person’s emotions.
emphatic responsiveness
Using everything the listener
knows about the speaker
and their circumstances to
understand their feelings.
perspective taking
it translates our
intellectual understanding of
what the speaker has
experienced into feelings of
concern, compassion, or
sorrow for that person.
sympathetic responsiveness
- Ability to retain and recall information later.
remembering
- Critically analyzing a message to determine the
truthfulness, utility, and trustworthiness of it. - Involves ascertaining the accuracy of facts.
evaluating
Providing feedback.
responding
______ _______Response Strategies
- Supportive responses encourage the other
person to talk about and make sense of a
distressing situation.
emotional support
_____ ______ Response Strategies
- When the comforter cannot agree with the
speaker, this will be the most effective if they
clearly demonstrate respect.
constructive criticism
______ _______ ______ Critique Strategies
- To be respectful, honest, and helpful.
- Must use the “I” language, be specific, and
identify what the speaker did well before
suggesting improvement.
formal constructive speech
Interactions that
occur between two
people to help build,
maintain, and
sometimes end
interpersonal
relationships.
interpersonal comm
● Sets of expectations
two people have for
each other based on
their previous
interactions.
● Helps satisfy our
innate human need
to feel connected
with others.
interpersonal relationships
- People we know by name.
- Interactions are mostly impersonal.
impersonal communication.
acquaintances
Interchangeable chit-chat.
impersonal comm
– attempting to maintain a
positive self-image in a relational situation.
saving face
People who we have voluntarily negotiated more
personal relationships with.
friends
- People who we share a high degree of
interdependence, commitment, disclosure,
understanding, affection, and trust.
intimates
Partners are not sexually attracted to
each other or do not act on an
attraction they feel.
platonic rs
- Partners acknowledge their sexual
attraction.
romantic rs
- Conceptualised by Irwin Altman and Dalmas Taylor.
- Describes the different kinds of self-disclosure used in
relationships.
social penetration theory
- Made by J__ L__ and Harry Ingham (1970).
- A window of four panes with information about you.
johari window
JOE LUFT