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Midterm Flashcards

1
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Haptics

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The Study of touch and touching

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Proxemics

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The Study of Space

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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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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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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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6 Nonverbal Functions

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  1. Identification and self-presentation- How your nonverbal communication can represent a trait of an individual….. Touchy feely
  2. Control of interaction- Request a turn
  3. Relationship of interactants
  4. Display of cognitive information
  5. Display of affective (emotional) information
  6. Display of Deception- Fake Love through handshakes
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15
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Meads 3 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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Functions of Touch

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Functional, Social, Friendship, Love, Sexual Arousal

  1. Functional/Professional
  2. Social/Polite
  3. Friendship/Warmth
  4. Love/Intimacy
  5. Sexual Arousal
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Factors of violating Haptics Expectations

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Location, Duration, Intensity

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Metamessage

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Message about how to communicate in a given context or environment

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Methods of Territorial Defense

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  1. Markers
  2. Offensive Displays
  3. Tenure
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Types of Markers

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  1. Central Marker
  2. Boundary Marker
  3. Earmarker
21
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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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Information Preserve

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Territories that contain facts about the self we wish to control

24
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Three factors that influence our perception of crowding

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Surveillance, Behavioral Constraint, Overload Stimuli

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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

27
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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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Cocooning

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A withdrawing into oneself; creating a personal territorial behavior

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Crowding

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A 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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Density

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The number of living beings present in a given area

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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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Intimate

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Family/Significant others

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Personal

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Friends

34
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Social

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Business Zone

35
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Public

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For everyone

36
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The Seven Factors of Proxemics

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  1. Postural-sex identifiers
  2. The sociofugal-sociopetal axis
  3. Kinesthetic features
  4. Visual code
  5. Thermal code
  6. Olfactory code
  7. Voice-loudness
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Proxemes

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Units of space within each distance “zone” we have; generally classified as “inner” or “outer” zones.

38
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Personal Space

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An invisible space immediately surrounding the person, a body buffer zone.

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