Test 1 Flashcards
Test study
What is communication?
A process that uses messages, context, channels, and sometimes media
Text messages are an example of what model for communication?
Linear
What does the interactive model add to the linear model?
Feedback, fields of experience. Ex-Classroom
Everyday communication is an example of what communication model?
Transactional
Interpersonal Communication is:
Dynamic, transactional, dyadic, and impact creating
I-Thou relationships are:
embracing similarities, accepting one as unique, thinning the distance between people
I-It relationships are:
focusing on differences, treating others as objects, thickening the distance between people
Metacommunication is:
communication about communication
Principles of IPC:
Dynamic, irreversible, intentional/unintentional, intertwined with morals and ethics
What is self-awareness?
Viewing self as a unique person
What is social comparison
Comparing yourself to other people
What is self concept?
Overall perception of who you are as influenced by beliefs, attitudes, and values
Describe the “Looking glass self”
how self-concept s influenced by how we see others seeing us
Describe the “self fulfilling prophecies”
predictions about future events that lead us to behave in ways that it will be fulfilled
What is self esteem?
Overall value we assign to ourselves
Describe the “Self discrepancy theory”
Self esteem is linked to how we think about ourselves: Ideal self, Ought self.
Low anxiety and low avoidance:
Secure attachment
Low anxiety and high avoidance:
Dismissive
High anxiety, low avoidance:
Preoccupied
High anxiety, High avoidance:
Fearful
What is the warranting value:
what others say about you is more believable that what you say about yourself
What is self-disclosure
revealing private information about ourselves to other people
Describe the Social Penetration Theory
Like an Onion, we reveal ourselves in layers
Describe the Dis-inhibition effect:
Quicker self disclosure and deeper when online
What is Salience?
Important information as viewed by the person
What is punctuation?
Organizing information chronologically to how you experienced
What is interpretation?
Assigning meaning to selected information
What is Schemata?
Past experience or witnessed
What are Internal Attributions?
Character or personality
What are External Attributions?
Situational Factors
What is the Fundamental attribution error?
tendancy to assume internal behaviors are to blame when it can be external.
Actor-observer effect:
Tendency to attribute external factors to own behavior
Self-serving bias:
tendency to attribute internal factors to own behavior
Big 5 personality traits
OCEAN, openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, neuroticism
What is the Implicit Personality Theory
Assuming certain personality traits go together
What is the Uncertainty Reduction Theory?
Aim to explain and predict people
Gestalts are:
Impressions, positive or negative
Halo effect:
positively interpret people with whom we have positive gestalts
Horn effect:
negatively interpret people with whom we have negative gestalts.
Emotion:
An intense reaction that controls how we interpret and respond to an event
Feelings:
Short term emotion reactions to events with limited arousals
Moods:
Low intensity long lasting states
