Module 3 Quiz Flashcards
Verbal refers to
Words written or spoken not orality
Phonological
Sound, system
Semantic system
System of word meanings
Synatic system
Enables you to put words into meaningful sentences.
Meanings are in
People
Bypassing
A pattern of communication occurring when the speaker and the listener miss each other with their meanings.
Types of bypassing
Different words, same meanings ; same words different meanings.
Denotation
The meaning found in a dictionary, the meaning that members of the culture assign to a word.
Connotation
The emotional meaning that specific speakers- listeners give to a word.
Snarl words
Highly negative ( she’s an idiot, he’s a pig, they are a bunch of racist)
Purr words
Highly positive ( she’s a sweetheart, he’s a dream, they’re the greatest)
The point of snarl and purr words
Purely connotative in meaning, they don’t describe people or events, they reveal the speakers feeling about people or events.
Language is blank and blank
Denotative and connotation
Meanings depend on
Context
Context can be
Cultural or gender based,
Principle of communication
Holds that any communication interaction, both parties will make an effort to help each other understand one another.
4 ideals of the principle of cooperation
The maxim of quality - truth, maxim of relation- relevant to conversation, maxim of manner- clear, brief, and meaningful pattern ( texting is a good example) Maxim of quantity- informative as possible
Principal of face saving
Holds that you should never embarrass anyone especially in public.
The principle of self denigration
Advises you to avoid taking credit for accomplishments and to minimize your abilities or talents in conversation. Also raise the image of those you are talking too.
Principle of peaceful relations
Holds that when you communicate, your primary goal is to maintain peaceful relationships.
How gender affects communication
Women are more polite, seek agreement, women are less direct in giving orders and men are more indirect in admitting an error or weakness.
Politeness
Consideration, regard for others as expressed verbally and nonverballly, interaction that follows the socially accepted rules for interpersonal interaction
Direct message
Speech in which the speaker states his or her intentions clearly and forthrightly
Indirect messages
Allow you to express a desire ejtbiut insulting or offending someone. Ex. Instead of this food tastes terrible, I just started my diet.
Onymous
The author of the message is clearly identified
How to be more assertive
Describe the problem, state how this problem, affects you, propose solutions, confirm understanding.
Lying
Refers to the act of 1. Sending messages 2. With the intention of giving a other person information you believe to be false.
You can’t lie if
You send information you believe to be true
Types of lies
Pro- social deception: to achieve some good, self-enhancement deception: to make yourself look good, selfish deception: to protect yourself ( telling a person that you are not cheating when you are), anti social deception: to harm someone.
Truth bias
Assuming that someone is telling the truth
Deception bias
Believing that someone is telling a lie ( common among jailers)
Disconfirmation
A communication pattern in which we ignore someone and in effect someone’s messages. Denying their significance (I’m not interested in your babbling, I do what I want)
Rejection
You disagree with the person and indicate an unwillingness to accept something the other person says or does.
Confirmation
Acknowledging the presence of the other person, the person’s importance and your acceptance of this person.
Confirmation
Acknowledging the presence of the other person, the person’s importance and your acceptance of this person.
Individual racism
Negative attitudes and beliefs that people hold about specific races.
Heterosexism
Exists on am individual and institutional level. Individualist includes attitudes, behaviors and language that disparages other lifestyles and beliefs that these lifestyles are wrong.
Heterosexual language
Obvious derogatory terms as well as qualifying professionals by their sexuality.
Ageism
Prejudice against older people but also against certain age groups.
Sexist language
Language that puts down someone because his or her gender.
Racist terms
Black, chicos, Eskimos, jews as an adjective, and oriental.
Ma’am
Best to be avoided because it refers to a woman’s age or marital status.
Transvestites
People who prefer at times to dress in the clothing of the sex other than the one they were assigned at birth.
Intensional orientation
The tendency to view people, objects, and events according to the way they’re talked about or labeled.
Extensional orientation
The tendency to look first at the actual people, objects and events and only afterward at their labels.
Allness
Forgetting that language symbolizes only a portion of reality, never the whole.
Language expresses both
Facts and inferences
Fact inference confusion
When inferences are treated as facts.
Inferentual statement
Statement made not only on the basis of what you observe but of what you infer.
Static evaluation
Tendency to retain evaluations without change while the reality to which they refer is changing.
Mental date
Extensional devise that helps you keep your language up to date and guards against static evaluation. Pat 2012 different from pat 2015
Indiscrimination
Failure to distinguish between similar but different people, objects, or events.
Index
Mental subscript identifies each individual as an individual. Teacher1 is not teacher 2
Nonverbal communication examples
Gesture, smile, grown widen eyes, move chair, weae jewelry, touch someone, raise volume, or say nothing at all.
Nonverbal communication myths
- It conveys more meaning than verbal communication 2. Loars avoid eye contact. 3.studying it will allow you to read another person like a book 4. It is universal 5. When verb and nonverbal contradict each other, it is best to believe the nonverbal.
Accent example
Raising your voice to underscore a particular word or phrase, bang your fist on the desk to emphasize your commitment, or look longingly into someone’s eyes when you say you love them.
Complement example
Smile when telling a story, frown, qnf shake uout head.
Contradict
Crossin fingers and winking when lying
Control
Purse your lips, lean forward, or make hand movements that indicate your will to speak. “Um” tnesr message control or indicate a desute to control of verbal messages.
Repeat
Is it alright?followed by raised eyebrows and questioning look.
Subsititute
Nod of head meaning yes, hand signal meaning “OK”
6 ways tbay nonberbal messages interact with verbal messages
Accent, complement, contradict, control, repeat, substitute.
How to communicate nonverbally electronically
Emoticons and pictures
Real and genuine smiles
Duchene smiles
To be liked
Smile, pat on the back, nice handshake
To be believed
Focused eye contact, open gestures, and a firm stance
To excuse failure
Look sad, cover face with hands, shake head.
To secure help
Open hand gestures, puzzlee look, and inept movements
To hide faults
Avoid self adapters
To be followed
Dress like a leader, put diploma and awards in displag
To confirm self-image and to communicate it to othetd
Dress in certain ways or decorate your apartnent with things that reflect your personality
Nonverbal messages help manage
Impressions
Non verbal messages help form
Relationships
Tie signs
Non verbal signs that indicate the way that a relatiobshoo is tied together. Varies in intimacy, extends from informal handshake to hand holding anf full mouth kissing.
Nonverbal messages structure
Conversation ( turn taking cues)
Nonverbal messages can
Influence and deceive