Comm 2
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- intrapersonal
- using messages to generate meaning within the self
- interpersonal
- coordinating meaning between at least two people in a situation that allows mutual opportunities for both speaking and listening
- dyadic
- two-person communication
- small-group comm
- interaction of a small group of people to achieve and interdependent goal
- public
- one source transmits message to a number of receivers who give non-verbal and sometimes question and answer feedback
- mass
- source to unknown receivers
- self-efficacy
- optimistic belief in one's own competence
- self-image
- sort of person one perceives oneself to be
- self-esteem
- how well one likes and values oneself
- self-fulfilling prophecy
- when expectations of an event creates the conditions to permit that event to happen
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johari window
open area - the part of the self known to self and others
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johari window
blind area - known to others and not to self
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johari window
hidden area - known to self and unknown to others
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johari window
self-disclosure - revealing information to another that they would not otherwise know
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johari window
unknown - unknown to both
- selective exposure
- tendency to expose oneself to information that reinforces thinking
- selective attention
- tendency to focus on certain cues and ignor others
- selective perception
- tendency to see, hear, and believe only what we want
- selective retention
- tendency to remember things that reinforce our thinking and forget those that oppose our thinking
- fundamental attribution error
- attributing others' successes to the situation and their failures to their personal characteristics
- self-serving bias
- attributing our success to our personal characteristics and our failures to circumstance
- impression management
- creation of a positive image designed to influence others
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Stages of Perception
selection - interpreting experience in a way that conforms to one's beliefs, expectations and convictions
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kinesic behaviors
emblems -
body movements that translate directly into words
the bird, hitchhiker -
kinesic behaviors
illustrators -
accent, emphasize or reinforce words.
(using your hands to show how big something is) -
kinesic behaviors
regulators -
control back and forth of conversation
(posture shifts, hand gestures) -
kinesic behaviors
displays of feelings - show how intensely a person is feeling
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kinesic behaviors
adaptors -
nonverbal ways of adjusting to a communication situation
(what do you do when you want to maintain interpersonal contact) - distinctiveness theory
- person's own distinctive traits are more salient to them than are the more prevalent traits of others in the immediate environment
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proxemics
intimate distance - less than 18 inches
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proxemics
personal - 18 in to 4 ft
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proxemics
social - 4 to 12 feet
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proxemics
public - more than 12 ft