Rehearsal #1 Flashcards
P-1: Define interpersonal communication.
The verbal and nonverbal interaction between two or more interdependent people.
P-2: Explain the model of communication.
P-3: Explain the elements of communication competence.
- Cognitive complexity
- Empathy
- Awareness that you have multiple options
- Wisdom to select the best option
- Skill to execute the best option suitably
- Motivation
P-4: Explain the measures and ethical implications of communication competence.
- Effectiveness: reaching one’s objective.
- Appropriateness: conforming to norms.
- Ethical significance: maximizing competence eliminates the ends-means dilemma by making more means available.
P-5: Explain the axioms of communication.
- You cannot not communicate
- Communication is irreversible
- Communication is unrepeatable
- Communication is content + relationship.
- Communicators punctuate differently
- Communication is either symmetrical or complementary
CS-1: Differentiate self-concept and self-esteem.
Self-concept is descriptive; the relatively unchanging set of perceptions and beliefs you have about who you are. Self-esteem is whether, and how much, you like or dislike yourself.
CS-2: Explain the principles of image management.
- Image management is collaborative.
- We manage multiple identities.
- Image management is complex.
CS-3: Explain the principles of self-disclosure.
- It’s intentional and truthful.
- It varies in breadth and depth.
- It varies among relationships.
- It’s gradual.
- It’s different online.
- It’s usually reciprocal.
- It has multiple purposes.
- It’s shaped by culture and gender.
CS-4: Explain the panes of the Johari Window.
- Open: Known to you and others
- Hidden: Known to you, unknown to others
- Blind: Unknown to you, known to others
- Unknown: Unknown to you and others
CS-5: Explain accurate self-concept.
- Excessively high self-esteem risks narcissism
- Calibrating self-concept is rationally relating it to events and behaviors
- Romans 12:3
CS-6: Define negative self-talk.
Creating or amplifying negative feelings about oneself or one’s situation by making negative interpretations explicit in words and sentences.
CP-1: Define schema.
Mental templates that organize information.
CP-2: Define implicit bias.
An unconscious and involuntary bias, positive or negative, that shows up in readiness to believe or behave in related ways.
CP-3: Define attribution.
A belief about what causes a person’s behavior.
CP-4: Define empathy.
- The ability to imagine in detail another person’s affective sensations, especially of emotion.
- Not the same as sympathy (hoping for good outcomes), compassion (desire to help) or emotional contagion (e.g. spread of panic.).
