COMM 128 Midterm

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Intergroup Comm.

defined by the groups that people identify with

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Social Identity

what categories make you unique

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Acquired Identities

identities that we can choose, i.e. music taste, sports teams, etc.

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Social Creativity

belief that group is positively distinct in a different way; finding a way to feel good about your group on another dimension

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Fit

how well a categorization fits social reality

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Comparative fit

accounts for similarities and differences between people

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Convergence

move to be more similar to convo partner

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Maintenance

sustaining one's default communication style

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Downward convergence

shift to less prestigious speech to match lower group status

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Accommodation

motivation to decrease social distance

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Under-accommodation

recognizing what people want in an encounter, but giving them less

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Enacted identity

how do I perform my identities?; playing a role

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Interpenetration

process of blending or united elements of identity

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Interpersonal Comm.

defined by unique qualities of individuals

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Group

set of individuals that share something in common

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Social Categories

categories/stereotypes employed during perception and impression formation (how we view others)

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Social Identity

sense of who we are based on the groups we belong to

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Salience

when a social identity matters to us/is at the top of our mind (chronic/temporary)

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Positive Distinctiveness

how our groups are different in a positive way

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Ingroup

groups we identify with

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Outgroups

groups we do not identify with

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Minimal Group Paradigm

membership of specific groups can drive people to act like other group members

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Social cognition

us vs. them thinking; understanding and interacting with others in social situations

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Self-Concept

the mental picture of who we are

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Personal identity

what makes you unique

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Identification

how we attach ourselves to groups for psychological benefits

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Ascribed Identities

identities that are assigned to us, we cannot choose these identities; i.e. race, ethnicity, sexuality, etc.

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Positive Distinctiveness

desire to make ingroup distinctly different from the outgroup in a positive way

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Realistic Threat

risk to the ingroups safety, economic standing, politics, or well-being

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Symbolic threat

risk to non-material goods like morals, values, norms, attitudes, and esteem

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Social Mobility

belief in possibility of passing from one group to another

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Social Competition

belief in possibility of reversing the status hierarchy - pointing out why your group is just as good/better

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Prototypes

mental images of someone with a specific social identity; transmitted through language, media, clothing, etc.

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Stereotypes

application of prototypes when encountering groups of people

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Accessibility

how easily a social category comes to mind; can be chronically or temporarily accessible

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Normative fit

when a person fits the stereotype

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Self-categorization theory

theory where perceivers are both individual and group members; how and when people will define themselves as an individual or group member

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Code Switching

alternating use of two languages in the same stretch of discourse by bilingual speaker (often thought of un context of race/identity)

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Referential communication

facts, ideas, emotions = info i want you to know

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Social category communication

signaling identity/group membership; groups i want you to know i belong to

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Divergence

move to be more different from convo partners

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Upward convergence

shift to more prestigious speech to match higher group status

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Upward divergence

shift to more prestigious to be different from lower status group

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Downward divergence

shift to less prestigious speech to be different from high status group

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Over-accommodation

giving too much of what we think people want, can be perceived as negative or condescending

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Personal identity

who am i?; unique self

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Relational identity

who am i to others?; who we become in relationships to others

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Communal identity

how does my community define my identities?; socially constructed by society

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