Interpersonal Communication/chapter 1

To be aware of the thoughts, needs,

experiences, personality, emotions, motives,

desires, culture, and goals of your

communication partners while still

maintaining your own integrity

Process of acting on information

Process of making sense out of the world

and sharing that sense with others by

creating meaning through the use of verbal

and nonverbal messages

A distinctive, transactional form of human

communication involving mutual influence,

usually for the purpose of managing

relationships

Process that occurs when we treat others

as objects or respond to their roles rather

than to who they are as unique persons

Process that occurs when one person issues

the same message to many people at once;

the creator of the message is usually not

physically present & listeners have virtually

no opportunity to respond immediately to

the speaker

Process that occurs when a speaker

addresses an audience

Process that occurs when a group of three to

fifteen people meet to interact with a common

purpose & mutually influence one another

Communication with yourself; thinking

Connection established when one person

communicates with another

Originator of a thought or emotion, who puts

it into a code that can be understood by a

receiver

To translate ideas, feelings, and thoughts

into code

To interpret ideas, feelings, and thoughts that

have been translated into a code

Written, spoken, and unspoken elements of

communication to which people assign

meaning

Pathway through which messages are sent

Person who decodes a message & attempts

to make sense of what the source has

encoded

Anything literal or psychological that interferes

with accurate reception of a message

Response to a message

Physical & psychological environment for

communication

Theory that describes the interconnected

elements of a system in which a change in

one element affects all of the other

elements

Sequence of interactions between

individuals, during which the message of

one person influences the message of

another

Word, sound, or visual image that

represents something else, such as a

thought, concept, or object

Followable prescription that indicates what

behavior is obligated, preferred, or

prohibited in certain contexts

Information, ideas, or suggested actions

that a speaker wishes to share

The implied aspect of a communication

message, which conveys information about

emotions, attitudes, power, and control

Verbal or nonverbal communication

about communication

A variety of technological applications such

as Facebook, Twitter, & Instagram that

serve as channels to help people connect

to one another

Communication via a medium such as

the internet

The process whereby people mimic the

emotions of others after watching & hearing

their emotional expressions

A relationship formed primarily through

electronically mediated communication

that becomes more personal than an

equivalent face-to-face relationship because

of the absence of distracting external cues,

smaller amounts of personal information, &

idealization of the communication partner

A message that is not read, heard, or seen

exactly when it is sent; there is a time delay

between the sending of the message & its

receipt

A message that is sent & received

simultaneously

The feeling that communicators have of

engaging in unmediated, face-to-face

interactions even though messages are

being sent electronically

Theory that suggests that communication of

emotions is restricted when people send

messages to others via text messages

because nonverbal cues such as facial

expressions, gestures, & tone of voice are

filtered out

Theory that identifies the richness of a

communication medium based on the

amount of feedback it allows, the number of

cues receivers can interpret, the variety of

language it allows, & the potential for

emotional expression

Theory that suggests people can

communicate relational and emotional

messages via the Internet, although such

messages take longer to express without

nonverbal cues

Person who creates messages without

giving much thought to the person who

is listening; a communicator who is self-

focused & self-absorbed

The beliefs, values, & moral principles by

which a person determines what is right

or wrong