Communications

Dyad primacy

An isolated conversation with only two people

Dyad coalition

Two people coming together with the same goal (good or bad)

Dyad consciousness

Sacrificing someone to keep a dyad/connection

Messages

Non-face-to-face signals (verbal and nonverbal)

Feedback messages

A response to what’s being communicated (verbal and nonverbal)

Channel

What a message goes through (face-to-face)

Physical noise

An outside external noise

Physiological noise

An internal noise from the body (disabilities)

Psychological noise

Noises from inside of your head

Semantic noise

An internal noise from not knowing the meaning of words

Culture

Something that’s true to a group (a lifestyle)

Enculturation

Learning a culture your born into

Acculturation

Learning a culture that’s different from your own

Power distances 1

Power distances 2

Power distances

High Power	Low Power
O O I I I I I	O O O O O I I

High power-distance

Few have power, it’s more difficult to grow power

Low power-distance

Many have power, it’s easy to be one with power

Uncertainty Reduction Theory (URT)

Reducing uncertainty about someone by interacting and observing.

Stereotypes

An overall perspective of a particular group (can be positive or negative)

Ethnocentrism

Believing your culture is better than other cultures

Culture shock 1

Culture shock

1. Honeymoon - Different is awesome!

2. Crisis - Different is no longer awesome

3. Recovery - Learning the skills to function

4. Adjustment - Learning to enjoy the awesome

Does not have to go through all stages

Self-concept

Who you think you are (subjective)

Looking-glass self

Forming your self-concept based on your perception of how others view you

Self-awareness

How accurate your knowledge of yourself is (objective)

Self-esteem

How much you like yourself

Affirmation

Positive self-talk or statements to boost confidence and self-worth

Nourishing people

People who support and uplift you emotionally and mentally out of their greater good

Noxious people

People who drain and undermine you

Self-disclosure

Revealing personal information as a way to grow a connection

Johari window 1

Johari window

OPEN	BLIND
SECRET	UNKNOWN

Selective attention

Focusing on specific stimuli and ignoring others that don’t catch your eye

Schemata

Expectations you made from personal experience of specific groups and things

Scripts

Expectations of procedures or sequences

Self-fulfilling prophecy 1

A prediction that influences your actions that causes it to come true

Self-fulfilling prophecy

1. Make a prediction

2. Behave as if it were true

3. It became true

4. Your prediction becomes stronger

Pygmalion effect

A prediction someone else makes that influences your actions to come true

Implicit personality theory

A system that tells you what goes with what

Halo effect

A good impression on a person’s influence that led you to assume other good things about them

Reverse halo effect

A bad impression on a person’s influence that led you to assume other bad things about them

Perceptual accentuation

Perceive others how we perceive them

Pollyanna effect

Remembering others with positive experiences and usually forgetting the negative ones

First impression

How someone perceives you in the first seconds of interacting with you