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Test 1 Flashcards

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1
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What is communication?

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A process that uses messages, context, channels, and sometimes media

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Text messages are an example of what model for communication?

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Linear

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What does the interactive model add to the linear model?

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Feedback, fields of experience. Ex-Classroom

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4
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Everyday communication is an example of what communication model?

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Transactional

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Interpersonal Communication is:

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Dynamic, transactional, dyadic, and impact creating

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I-Thou relationships are:

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embracing similarities, accepting one as unique, thinning the distance between people

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I-It relationships are:

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focusing on differences, treating others as objects, thickening the distance between people

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Metacommunication is:

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communication about communication

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Principles of IPC:

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Dynamic, irreversible, intentional/unintentional, intertwined with morals and ethics

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What is self-awareness?

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Viewing self as a unique person

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What is social comparison

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Comparing yourself to other people

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What is self concept?

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Overall perception of who you are as influenced by beliefs, attitudes, and values

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Describe the “Looking glass self”

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how self-concept s influenced by how we see others seeing us

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Describe the “self fulfilling prophecies”

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predictions about future events that lead us to behave in ways that it will be fulfilled

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What is self esteem?

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Overall value we assign to ourselves

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Describe the “Self discrepancy theory”

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Self esteem is linked to how we think about ourselves: Ideal self, Ought self.

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Low anxiety and low avoidance:

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Secure attachment

18
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Low anxiety and high avoidance:

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Dismissive

19
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High anxiety, low avoidance:

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Preoccupied

20
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High anxiety, High avoidance:

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Fearful

21
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What is the warranting value:

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what others say about you is more believable that what you say about yourself

22
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What is self-disclosure

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revealing private information about ourselves to other people

23
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Describe the Social Penetration Theory

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Like an Onion, we reveal ourselves in layers

24
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Describe the Dis-inhibition effect:

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Quicker self disclosure and deeper when online

25
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What is Salience?

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Important information as viewed by the person

26
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What is punctuation?

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Organizing information chronologically to how you experienced

27
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What is interpretation?

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Assigning meaning to selected information

28
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What is Schemata?

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Past experience or witnessed

29
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What are Internal Attributions?

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Character or personality

30
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What are External Attributions?

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Situational Factors

31
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What is the Fundamental attribution error?

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tendancy to assume internal behaviors are to blame when it can be external.

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Actor-observer effect:

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Tendency to attribute external factors to own behavior

33
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Self-serving bias:

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tendency to attribute internal factors to own behavior

34
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Big 5 personality traits

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OCEAN, openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, neuroticism

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What is the Implicit Personality Theory

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Assuming certain personality traits go together

36
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What is the Uncertainty Reduction Theory?

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Aim to explain and predict people

37
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Gestalts are:

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Impressions, positive or negative

38
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Halo effect:

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positively interpret people with whom we have positive gestalts

39
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Horn effect:

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negatively interpret people with whom we have negative gestalts.

40
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Emotion:

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An intense reaction that controls how we interpret and respond to an event

41
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Feelings:

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Short term emotion reactions to events with limited arousals

42
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Moods:

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Low intensity long lasting states

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