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The medium through which a message passes from sender to reciever.
Channel
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The tendancy to seek out information that conforms to an existing self concept and to ignore information that contradicts it.
Cognitive Conservatism
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Communication that occurs via computerized channels
Computer Meditated Communication
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A group within an encompassing culture with a perceived identity
Co-culture
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A culture whose members feel loyalties and obligations to an in-group, such as extended family, community, and even work organizations.
Collectivistic Culture
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According to Samovar and Porter, "The language, values, belief, traditions, and customs people share and learn."
Culture
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Two communicators who interact with each other.
Dyad
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The ability to project ones self into another persons point of view in an attempt to experience the others thoughts and feelings.
Empathy
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Both the physical setting in which communication occurs and the personal perspectives of the people involved.
Environment
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Ambigious language that has two or more equally plausible meanings
Equivocal Language
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An attitude that ones own culture is superior to that of others.
Ethnocentrism
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The image an individual wants to project to the world.
Face
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Actions people take to preserve their own and others presenting images
Facework
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A diseranable response of a reciever to a senders message.
Feedback
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The physically observable qualitites of a thing or situation
First-order Realities
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The tendancy to form an overall positive impression of a person on the basis of one positive characteristic
Halo Effect
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A culture in which people view their primary responsibility as helping themselves
Individualistic Culture
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A group with which an individual identifies him/herself
In-group
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External, physiological and psychological distractions that interfere with the accurate transmission and reception of a message.
Noise
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A group that an individual sees as different from him/herself.
Out-group
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The person we believe ourselves to be in moments of candor. It may be identical with or different from the presentitive or desired self.
Perceived Self
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An unfairly biased and intolerant attitude towards others who belong to an outgroup
Prejudice
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The image a person presents to others
Presenting Self
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The theory that a person's self-concept matches the way the person believes others regard him/her.
Reflected Appraisal
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Perception that arise from attaching meaning to first-order things or situations.
Second-order Realities
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The relatively stable set of perceptions each individual holds of him/herself
Self-concept
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The process of deliberately revealing information about oneself that is signifigant and that would not normally be known by others
Self-disclosure
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The part of the self-concept that involves evaluations of self-worth
Self-esteem
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A persons expected outcome influences their behavior whichmakes the outcome more likely to occur
Self-fulfilling Prophecy
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A person whose opinion is important enough to effect ones self-concept strongly
Significant Other
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Evaluating ones self in terms of or by comparison to others.
Social Comparison
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The part of the self-concept that is based on membership in groups
Social Identity
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A body of scholarship that explores how ones position in society shapes ones view of society in general and of specific individuals
Standpoint Theory
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Exaggerated beliefs associated with a categorized system.
Stereotyping
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Behavior Rehearsal
- A. Define Goal
- B. Break the goal into behaviors involved.
- C. Practice each behaviors.
- D. Try the behaviors in real life.
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Individualistic Culture Characteristics
- Primary responsability helping themself
- Self- reliance and competition
- View themself as what they do
- Reward Superstars
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Collectivistic Culture Characteristics
- Loyalties to an in-group
- Concerned with opinions of signifigant others
- Associate themself with group membership
- Produce Team Players
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The senses, age, health and fatigue, hunger, biological cycles, neurobehavioral challanges.
Physiological Factors that influence perception
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Sex and gender roles, occupational roles
Cultural and Social Factors that influence perception
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Mood, self-concept
Psychological factors that influence perception
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We decide who we are based on how others react to us. From our characteristics to our sense of being human.
Concept of identity needs
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