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| Issues that concern what people consider good or bad, just or unjust. |
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| The conviction of the existence or reality of something of th truth of some assertion. |
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| The principle stating that listeners will actively seek out info that supports their beliefs and will actively avoid info that cntradicts their existing beliefs. |
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| Drawing conclusion from clues (or symbols) that often occur together. |
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| The degree to which your audience regards you as believable. |
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| A relatively long illustration presented as an anecdote or story. |
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| An expert's opinion or a witness's account. |
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| A speech in which you explain an object, person, event, or process. |
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| A means of defining a term by tracing it's historical of linguistics. |
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| A question whose answer is obvious and is used to make a statement. |
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| The production of words resulting from movements of speech organs. |
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| Powerless forms of Language |
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| Faults such as hesitations, disqualifiers, and self-critical statements. |
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| A speech made off-the-cuff, without preparation. |
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| The main idea of a speech |
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| One of the steps in the motivation sequence, in which the audience is shown what will happen if the speaker's plan is adopted. |
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| The result of reasoning from specific instances, cause and effects, and signs. |
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| A pattern of speech organization in which a topic is divided into it's subtopics. |
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| Low-Power-Distance Culture |
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A culture in which there is a feeling of equality and in which there is little difference in power among members.
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| The closeness and liking for each other of group members. |
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| Behavior in groups that is usually dysfunctional and works against a sense of groupness. |
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| The tendency of group to overvalue agreement and ignore differences. |
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| Rules or standards identifying which behaviors are considered appropriate and which are inappropriate in a group. |
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| A culture in which much of the info in communication is not explicitly coded in verbal messages, but is considered common knowledge to all. |
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| A type of agreement in which group members all agree that a solution is acceptable. |
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| An approach to conflict in which you sacrifice your own needs for the needs of another person. |
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| A disagreement between connected individuals. |
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| A conflict strategy in which stored up prior grievances are introduced into the present conflict. |
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| Face-Attacking Strategies |
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| Conflict strategies that attack the other person's self-image. |
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| A method of trying to win an argument by inflicting psychological pain or distress. |
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| A theory based on the exception of fairness. |
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| Characterized by 3 types: traditional, independents, and separates. |
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| A love that is compassionate and selfless. |
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| A frienship of loyalty and mutal affection. |
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| The stage at which the bonds between people are weakened. |
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| Facial Feedback Hypothesis |
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| The assumption that your facial expressions influence the way you feel. |
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| An area that doesn't belong to you, but that you have occupied and in which you're associated. |
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| Eye movements that respect another's privacy and avoid looking at something that might cause embarrassment. |
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| The study of touch communication. |
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| Body gestures that directly translate into words or phrases. |
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| A communication pattern in which you indicate your acceptance of the other person's self-definition. |
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| The failure to recognize the influence of change. |
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| Discrimination against people with disabilities. |
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| The tendency to talk and think in terms of extremes or opposites. |
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| The subjective or emotional meaning that specific speakers give a word. |
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| A process of sending back to the speaker what you think the speaker meant. |
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| Restating what another says, but in your own words. |
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| Listening responses that let the speaker know that you're paying attention. |
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| Messages in which you take responsibility for your thoughts and actions rather than attributing these to others. |
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| Listening to what a person is feeling as well as to what the person is thinking. |
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| A fixed impression of a group of people. |
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| The process of making a prediction that comes true because you made the prediction and acted as if it were true. |
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| A measurement of how valuable you think you are. |
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| The process of talking to others about yourself, of revealing what you normally keep hidden. |
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| The tendency to take credit for positive outcome and to deny responsibilty for negative behavior. |
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| The tendency to see others and their behaviors through your own cultural filter. |
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| Messages you get back from your own messages and from the responses of others to what you communicate. |
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| Transactional View of Communication |
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| The view of communication that sees each person as taking both speaker and listener roles. |
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| The process of putting ideas into code, example thing of an idea and then describing it in words. |
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| Intrapersonal Communication |
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| Communication with yourself. |
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| Messages that open the channels of communication |
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| Signals indicating your reluctance to assume the role of speaker. |
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| The quality of togetherness, of oneness, that joins speaker and listen. |
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| A form of flattery, an expression of positiveness. |
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| An explanation designed to lessen the negative consequences of something done or said. |
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