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| Interpersonal Communication |
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| the process of creating and sharing meaning between people who are interdependent, have a relationship between them, and have some knowledge about each other. |
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| ideas that people believe to be true but are not. |
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| the process by which people create and share meaning. |
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| the message or idea that one person is sharing with another as well as the interpretation of that message by the other person. |
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| Communication as Action/Linear |
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| views communication as a be way process. one person creates a message and sends it to another. |
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| Communication as Interaction |
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| viewing communication as interaction recognizes that the person receiving the mesage responds by sending another message back. |
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| Communication as Transaction |
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| views communication as a transaction, or a process in which the sending and receiving of messages between mutiple people is continious, simultaneous, and avoidable. |
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| those who create messages. |
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| those who interpret messages. |
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| the process of creating a message to convey an idea, feeling, or thought. |
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| the process of interpreting the encoded messages. |
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| the path through which a message travels from source to receiver. |
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| any response to a message. |
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| information we provide about messages before they are sent. "this might sound confusing but.." |
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| all the physical and psychological elements of the environment in which communication takes place. |
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| everything in the physical |
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| the way the norms, rules, or beliefs of a culture influence communication. |
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| Social-Psychological Context |
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| relationship between communicators and their thought processes. |
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| the sequence of events and timing of an interaction. |
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| information about others based on aspects of their cultural identities (age race ethnicity gender). |
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| information about others based on the social roles they play. |
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| information about a person based on personal interaction with, and knowledge of, that person beyond social or cultural roles and identities. |
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| a representation of something else with many possible meanings and interpretations. |
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| literal meaning, based on common symbols, of what is communicated. |
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| reveals the nature of the relationship between the people communicating and is the part of the message that tells us how to understand the content message. |
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| refers to learned systems and shared values, beliefs, and behaviors common to a particular group of people. |
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| a group of people who are bonded through a system of values, beliefs and behaviors associated with a common group identiity. |
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| the overlap of cultural experiences between people. |
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| Dominance Power Perspective |
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| a perspective in which power is viewed as a finite quality, meaning that the only way for one person to gain power is for someone else to lose it. |
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| Empowerment Power Perspective |
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| a perspective that sees power as something to be shared with others. |
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| Synergy Power Perspective |
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| a perspective sees power as a process rather than as a commodity or an entity. |
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| power based on the knowledge or experience that one person has and others want. |
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| power based on the ability to influence based on one persons desire to be like the other. |
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| power based on the ability to influence based on societal position. |
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| power based on the ability to give others things they desire. |
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| power based on the ability to punish. |
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| everyone is linked through technology. |
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| based on the idea that the more television people watch the greater influence it will have on how they perceive the world. |
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| the mental image you have of yourself, including your traits, character, abilities, skills, knowledge, and personality. |
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| describes the way you see yourself and includes your various roles as student, daughter or son, etc. |
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| an evaluative measure of how we feel about ourselves, and therefor includes some value judgements. the degree to which you have a favorable impression of your self image or of who you have become. |
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| ideas about who we are through our attempts to understand why we behave the way we do. |
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| a prediction you accept about yourself in such a way that it becomes more likely to be true. |
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| occurs when you focus on messages that are meaningful for you. |
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| refers to verbal and nonverbal cues that provoke specific reactions from others. |
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| a theory that helps us to understand how direct and indirect messages contribute to a person's self concept. |
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| an idea of how others generally see us. |
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| a person whose interactions are more likely than the generalized other to influence our sense of self. |
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| a product of the groups or categories to which a person belongs. |
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| Individualistic Self Concept |
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| a self concept that appears as a seperate entity, one that is loosely connected to several social identities. |
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| Collectivistic Self Concept |
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| a self concept embedded within different social identities. |
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| group memberships that are most salient, or most central, to a persons self concept. |
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| Situational Identity Markers |
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| refer to those group memberships that are not generally central to how we describe ourselves, but do become important in certain situations. |
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| the act of sharing information about oneself to others. |
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| johari window- information that is known by both you and others. |
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| johari window- information that is known to others, but not you. |
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| johari window- information that is known to you but not to others. |
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| johari window- information that is not known to you or others. |
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| a way to understand the relationship between self concept and self disclosure. four boxes which represent a combination of self and others awareness. |
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| occurs with self diclosures that we share in order to help define our self. |
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| occurs when we use self disclosure to gain support for our self-concept. |
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| refers to the tendency for self-disclosures to mirror the self-disclosures of others. |
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| a factor that regulates self disclosure. we self disclose strategically as a way to communicate favorable images to others. |
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| Social Penetration Theory |
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| a theory that says that self disclosures have two dimensions: breadth and depth. |
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| refers to the range of subjects included in your self-disclosures. |
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| the amount of intimacy that is associated with each self disclosure. |
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| the process of acting on information. |
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| an orientation toward thinking that one's own cultural norms are superior to others. |
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| culturesin which information and meaning are more often assumed to be in the context, setting, environment, or people who are part of the interaction; a culture where people rely on inferred meanings, and where differences may exist between what is said and what is meant. |
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| cultures in which most of the information and meaning are assuemd to be communicated through the verbal message, not embedded in the context or participants; individuals are expected to say what they mean through direct communcation. |
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| believes we are currently living in an 'electronic age' - argued that the electronic media fostered the creation of one global village. |
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| believed that television was the dominant force in shaping modern society- cultivation theory. |
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| believes Hegemony describes the relationship between the US media and the public. |
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| when one group has predominant influence over another. |
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