Non-Verbal Communication Flashcards
Identify 6 channels of NVC and give an example of each (Hint : PAPKOS)
- Paralanguage → laughing
- Artifacts → clothing
- Proxemics → distance between people
- Kinesics → posture
- Olfaction → body odor
- Skin sensitivity → body temperature
Why is it important to call them “channels”?
Because they qualify one another and consider the words that are communicated
Because of channels, Goffman distinguishes between what and what?
Distinguishes between messages that are given and messages that are given off
- Messages that are given = intentional
- Messages that are given off = unintentional.
What did Darwin argue about Facial Expressions?
Due to evolution, facial expressions are universal
How do mirror neurons relate to emotions?
Mirror neurons influence the area of our brain that controls our emotions
- It lights up when we observe emotional responses in others
What are display rules? Give an example from Japan.
Display rules : the emotions that we are allowed and/or required to demonstrate
- Example: In Japan it isn’t acceptable to express negative emotions
What are some gender differences in display rules?
Examples :
- Women can express fear but men can’t
- Women can cry but men can’t
Hall identifies what three kinds of time?
Technical time, formal time and informal time.
- Technical time : as used by scientists
- Formal time : as used in scheduling appointments
- Informal time : as used casually, such as “I’ll be back in a hour.”
What varies when the same terms for time are used for all three kinds?
The precision varies when the same terms are used for all three kinds
What else influences the use of time? (Hint : MAUV)
- Monochronicity : doing one thing or several things
- Activity : whether or not you are doing anything
- Urgency : getting to a hospital or finding a bathroom
- Variety : the amount of variety in the situation
Writers who stress similarities between human and animal territoriality stress what in their definition of territoriality?
They stress the sense of defense of an area
Others, such as Altman, stress what instead within their definition of territoriality?
Altman defines territoriality in relation to habitual use.
What four zones of distance does Hall identify? Give an example of each (Hint : PISP)
- Personal → persons you trust
- Intimate → lovemaking and wrestling
- Social → impersonal business
- Public → important public figures
What did Henley and Jourard find about touching?
They discovered that women report being touch more so than men by their fathers, mothers, same-sex friends and friends of the opposite sex
Henley relates touching to difference in what? How does this relate to forms of address and to self-disclosure?
Relates it to a status difference
Forms of address:
- Two people use their first names → intimacy
- They both use titles → non-intimacy;
- One uses first name & the other uses title → status difference.
Self disclosure :
- Both people disclose information → intimacy
- Neither disclose → non-intimacy
- One discloses and another doesn’t →
status difference.
