FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT COMM 120 TEST 1

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT COMM 120 TEST #1

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Question 1: feedback

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responses to messages. continuous. may be verbal, nonverbal, or both. may be intentional or unintentional.

Question 2: cognitive complexity

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in our interpretation of experience, the number of constructs used, how abstract they are, and how elaborately they interact to create perceptions

Question 3: models of interpersonal communication

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linear models, interactive models, transactional models

Question 4: loaded language

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an extreme form of evaluative language that relies on words that strongly slant perceptions and thus meanings

Question 5: secure attachment style

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confidence in oneself & in relationships. secure mode instilled by caregiver who responds in consistently attentive, loving way to child; most common and most positive of the 4 styles. tend to be comfortable forming close bonds w/ others

Question 6: dismissive attachment style

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mode instilled typically early in life by a disinterested, rejecting, or abusive caregiver. individual later tends to dismiss others as unworthy and so does not seek close relationships. do not accept caregiver's view of them as unlovable (unlike fearful)

Question 7: features of interpersonal communication

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selective, systemic, unique, processual, transactional, individual, personal knowledge, meaning creating

Question 8: process

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an ongoing, continuous, dynamic flow that has no clear-cut beginning or ending and is always evolving and changing

Question 9: I language

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language in which one takes personal responsibility for feelings w/ words that own the feelings and do not project responsibility of the feelings onto others

Question 10: social comparison

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comparing ourselves to others in order to form judgments of our own talents, abilities, qualities, etc.

Question 11: speech community

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a group of people who share norms, regulative rules, and constitutive rules for communicating and interpreting the communication of others

Question 12: self-esteem needs

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valuing and respecting ourselves and being valued and respected by others. shaped by how others communicate w/ us

Question 13: communication rules

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shared understandings of what communication means what behaviors are appropriate in various situations

Question 14: reflected appraisal

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the process of seeing and thinking about ourselves in terms of the appraisals of us that others reflect

Question 15: influences on perception

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physiology, age, culture, cognitive abilities, self

Question 16: belonging needs

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social needs. want company, acceptance, and affirmation. inclusion, fun

Question 17: participating effectively in a diverse society

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through interaction, people come to understand their differences and similarities, and this fosters personal growth

Question 18: vulture

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an extreme for of downer who not only communicates a negative image of us but actually attacks our self-concept

Question 19: guidelines for improving verbal communication

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engage in dual perspective, own your feelings and thoughts, respect what others say about their feelings and thoughts, strive for accuracy and clarity,

Question 20: regulative rules

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communication rules that regulate interaction by specifying when, how, where, and w/ whom to talk about certain things

Question 21: physical needs

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needs to survive. air, food, sex

Question 22: constitutive rules

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rules that define what communication means by specifying how certain communicative acts are to be counted

Question 23: I-Thou communication

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fully interpersonal communication in which people acknowledge and deal with each other as unique individuals who meet fully in dialogue

Question 24: safety needs

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protection. shelter

Question 25: dual perspective

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the ability to understand both your own and another's perspective, beliefs, thoughts, and feelings

Question 26: indexing

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a technique of linking our evaluations of speech and events to specific times or circumstances, to remind ourselves that evaluations are not static or unchanging

Question 27: self-serving bias

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the tendency to attribute our positive actions and successes to stable, blobal, internal influences under our control, and to attribute our negative actions and failures to unstable, specific, external influences beyond out control