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Attributions: Inferences that people draw about the causes of events, others' behavior, and their own behavior.
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Channel: Both the route traveled by the messages and the means of transportation.
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Communication: The process of creating or sharing meaning in informal conversation. Group interaction or public speaking.
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Communication Apprehension: The fear or anxiety associated with either real or anticipated communication with others.
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Communication Setting: The place, situation, time, and occasion of a particular communication event
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Constructed Messages: Messages put together with careful thought when we recognize that our known scripts are inadequate for the situation.
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Context: The setting in which communication occurs including what proceeds and follows what is said.
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Credibility: The audience's perception of whether a speaker is qualified to speak on a given topic
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Cultural Context: Beliefs, lifestyles, values, and behaviors that the speaker and the audience bring with them and bear on the topic and purpose of the speech.
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Decoding: The process of interpreting another's message.
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Discrimination: treating members of different races, religions, ethnic groups differently; usually associated with prejudice
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Encoding: The process of putting our thoughts and feelings into words and nonverbal ques.
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Ethical Dilemma: A situation in which none of the available alternatives seems ethnically acceptable
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Feedback: The receiver's response to a message
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Halo Effect: To generalize and perceive that a problem that a person has a whole set of characteristics when you have actually observed one characteristics
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Historical Context: The background provided by previous communication episodes between the participants that influence understanding in the current encounter.
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Ideal Self Concept: What you like to be
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Immediacy: a quality of successful communication achieved when the speaker and audience experience a sense of closeness
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Implicit Personality Theories: Assumptions about which physical characteristics and personality traits or behaviors are associated with one another
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Incongruence: The gap between our inaccurate self perceptions and reality
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Internal Noise: factors inside the brain that interfere with the communication process.
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Interpersonal Communication: A dynamic form of communication between two or more people in which the messages exchanged significantly influence their thoughts, emotions, behaviors and relationships.
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Interpret: Assigning meaning to information
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Intrapersonal Communication: Communication that occurs within yourself, including your thoughts and emotions
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Meanings: Thoughts in our minds and interpretations of other's messages.
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Messages: Verbal utterances, images and nonverbal behaviors to which meaning is attributed during communication.
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Participants: Individuals who assume the roles of senders and receivers during an interaction.
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Pattern: A set of characteristics used to differentiate some things from others.
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Perception: The process of selectively attending to information and assigning meaning to it.
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Perception Check: a verbal response stating one person's understanding of someone else's nonverbal behavior
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Physical Context: A communication encounter's location, environmental conditions, distance between communications, seating arrangements and time of day.
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Physical Context: The mood and feelings each person brings to a conversation.
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Physical Interference: Sights, sounds and the other stimuli in the environment that draw people's attention away from intended meaning.
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Prejudiced: A rigid attitude that is based on group membership and predisposes an individual to feel, think and act in an negative way toward another person or group.
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Public Communication: Communication designed to inform, persuade, or entertain audience members
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Role: A pattern of learned behaviors that people use to meet the perceived demands of a particular context.
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Scripted Messages: Phrasings learned from past encounters that we judge to be appropriate to the present situation.
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Self Fulfilling Prophecy: A false perception of a situation or characteristics or skill that leads to behavior that perpetuate the false perception of true.
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Self- Concept: Your self identity
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Self- Esteem: Your overall evaluation of your competence and personal worthiness.
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Self- Monitoring: The internal process of observing, analyzing, and regulating your own behavior based on your analysis of the situation and others responses.
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Self- Talk: The internal conversation we have with our self.
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Semantic Noise: Distractions aroused by certain symbols that take our attention away from the main message
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Small Group Communication: Communication among a small number of people who share a common purpose or goal, who feel connected to each other and coordinate their behavior.
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Social Context: The nature of the relationship that already exists between participants.
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Social Ease: Communication without anxiety or nervousness.
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Spontaneous Expressions: Spoken without much conscious thought.
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Stereotypes: Generalizations, usually exaggerated or oversimplified and offensive. Use to describe and distinguish a group.
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Symbols: Words, sounds, and actions that are generally understand to represent ideas and feelings.
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Uncertainty: The process of monitoring the social environment to learn more about self and others.
