Ch. 1 Key Terms- A First Look At Interpersonal Communication
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COD: Interpersonal Communication- Speech 1
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Instrumental Goals | Getting others to behave the way that we want them to (pg. 8) |
| Linear Communication Model | The first model created to illustrate the communication process; depicting communication as something a sender "does to" a receiver. (pg. 9) |
| Sender | The person creating the message (pg. 9) |
| Encodes | Putting the thoughts into symbols, usually words (pg.9) |
| Message | The information being transmitted (pg. 9) |
| Channel | The medium through which the message passes (pg. 9) |
| Receiver | The person attending to the message (pg. 9) |
| Decodes | Makes sense of the message (pg. 10) |
| Noise | Distractions that disrupt transmission (pg. 10) |
| Transactional Communication Model | People sending and receiving messages simultaneously and not unidirectional, as suggested by the linear model (pg. 10) |
| Communicator (transactional) | Replaces the terms "sender" and "receiver" in the transactional communication model (pg. 10) |
| Environments | Fields of experience that affect how we understand others' behaviors (pg. 11) |
| External Noise (transactional) | Noise that is focused in the channel; outside influence that affects the ability to pay attention to the communicator (pg. 12) |
| Physiological Noise (transactional) | Biological factors that interfere with accurate reception of the message (pg. 12) |
| Psychological Noise (transactional) | Forces within one's self that interfere with their ability to understand a message accurately (pg. 12) |
| Communication | A transactional process involving participants who occupy different but overlapping environments and create relationships through the exchange of messages, many of which are affected by external, physiological, and psychological noise (pg. 13) |
| Content Dimension | Information that is being explicitly discussed (pg. 15) |
| Relational Dimension | Expresses how you feel about the other person you are communicating with (pg. 15) |
| Interpersonal Communication | Communication between two or more people (pg. 17) |
| Qualitative Communication | Any interaction between two people, usually face to face; occurring when people treat each other as unique individuals (pg. 17) |
| Dyad | Two people interacting; dyadic communication and interpersonal communication are interchangeable when used in a quantitative sense (pg. 17) |
| Quantitative Communication | Interaction between two people (pg. 17) |
| Impersonal Communication | Exchanges that are determined by social roles and social rules (pg. 17) |
| Relational Culture (qualitative) | the way that people in close relationships create their own unique ways of communicating (pg. 17) |
| Irreplaceability (qualitative) | A feature of qualitative interpersonal relationships that says since interpersonal relationships are unique they cannot be replaced (pg. 17) |
| Interdependence (qualitative) | The fate of the partners is connected; our identity is depends on the nature of interaction with others (pg. 18) |
| Disclosure (qualitative) | the amount of personal information we share in our interpersonal relationships (pg. 18) |
| Intrinsic Reward (qualitative) | The relationship itself is what is rewarding, rather than having little or nothing to do with the person giving the message (pg. 18) |
| Mediated Communication | Any communication that is not face to face; telephone, mail, email, social networking (pg. 18) |
| Richness | Nonverbal cues that add to the clarity of a verbal message (pg.21) |
| Disinhibition | The tendency to transmit messages without considering their consequences (pg. 22) |
| Permanence | The ability for inappropriate mediated messages to archived, retrieved, and/or forwarded virtually forever (pg. 22) |
| Communication Competence | Achieving one's communication goals in a manner that, in most cases, maintains or enhances the relationship in which it occurs (pg. 25) |
| Cognitive Complexity | The ability to construct a variety of frameworks for viewing an issue; preventing you from overreacting or misunderstanding the situation, increasing the odds of finding a way to resolve a problem constructively (pg. 29) |
| Self-monitoring | The process of paying close attention to one's behavior and using these observations to shape the way one behaves (pg. 30) |
| Co-cultures | Subgroups that exist within a larger culture of a country or society, often defined by age, race/ethnicity, occupation, religion, physical disability, sexual orientation, or activity (pg. 32) |
| Passive Observation | Noticing what behaviors members of a different culture use and using these insights to communicate in ways that are most effective (pg. 34) |
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