Social Interaction

Question 1

Oculesic Communication

Answer 1

Non-verbal communication from the way someone uses their eyes

Question 2

Symbolic Communication

Answer 2

Non-verbal communication using symbols, hand gestures to communicate.

Question 3

What type of communication is Sign Language? Verbal or Non-Verbal

Answer 3

Verbal. Sign Language has a complete set of vocabulary and structure, and thus is considered verbal communication.

Question 4

Folkways

Answer 4

Folkways refer to behavior considered polite in a particular context, such as the proper etiquette of tilting the bowl away from oneself when eating soup.

Question 5

Norms

Answer 5

How to go about NORMAL everyday situations.

Question 6

Aligning Actions

Answer 6

Making an EXCUSE to be the reason you did something or could not do something. …. Kind of what Joe Biden did when Kamala Harris attacked him for the bussing laws.

Question 7

Groupthink

Answer 7

Consensus without alternatives…… meaning, you do not think about “is this actually possible, or reasonable”… and example of Boeing corporate board saying we want a new airplane launched despite engineers saying the plane does not work… they do not care and all they hear is we want money money money, and as a result a bad defective plane is sent out, and people die… because of the groupthink of a corporate board

Question 8

Ego Expressive

Answer 8

AN object or ting that helps express your identity….. a Harley Davidson bike rider defines themself as a free thinking individual and a badass… what better way to express that then getting a Harley Davidson which will help you look that way.

Question 9

Self Disclosure

Answer 9

Stating who you are and your intentions.. 2) Revealing information about yourself

Question 10

Ingratiation

Answer 10

try to flatter someone to get them to do you a favor

Question 11

Alter-casting

Answer 11

trying to get someone to act a certain way by telling them what someone in their role should behave like by imposing an identity DIRECTLY onto them…. “YOU as a police officer should be more worried about catching bad guys rather than writing speeding tickets”… n

Question 12

Social Facilitation

Answer 12

Is the ability to perform easier task better when watched, but to perform more difficult task worse when watched.

Question 13

Social Network

Answer 13

Relationships among individuals

Question 14

Social Stratification

Answer 14

The differenciations in society such as money, wealth, class, profession, race

Question 15

Role Strain

Answer 15

Role strain is the tension that results from competing demands within the context of a single role.

Question 16

Role Conflict

Answer 16

Doing something that sucks because it may cause conflicts outside of your role.. like firing your best friend because you’re their manager

Question 17

Triad vs Dyad

Answer 17

The triad, three person groups such as the physician–patient–cultural liaison group, is considered relatively more stable because of the additional social ties.

Dyads, two-person groups such as the physician–patient group, are unstable because either party can break the single social tie.

From the perspective of basic group dynamics in sociology, larger groups are generally considered more stable but less intimate, whereas smaller groups are usually considered less stable but more intimate.

Question 18

Achieved Status

Answer 18

Status obtained as a result of you putting in effort for it…. i.e. getting a sex change operation to become female, earning your M.D. degree.

Question 19

Appraisal Model

Answer 19

In the appraisal model of emotional expression, cognitive processes occur in response to a situation which then triggers an emotion, followed by biologically predetermined expressions of that emotion.

Question 20

Primary Socialization vs Secondary Socialization

Answer 20

Primary is learned from family teaching you values on how to behave.

Secondary is how you learn to behave and interact with other groups such as, your basketball team, chess club, friends, etc

Question 21

Ingratiation

Answer 21

use of flattery to try to get others to like you more.

Question 22

Display Rules

Answer 22

how emotions are displayed in society.

this can change culture to culture

Question 23

Cultural Syndrome

Answer 23

Expecting some behavior to be the norm.

i.e. expecting your interviewer for med school to give you more than one word responses between statements and questions.