Communications

• Self-talk involves the conversations people have with themselves to provide feedback, advice, encouragements, and criticism.
• Interpersonal Communication


  Communication between two or more people
• Chronemics


  the study of how humans use and structure time
• Paralanguage


  Nonlinguistic means of vocal expression: rate, pitch, tone, and so on.
• intimate distance


  the zone of space willingly occupied only with intimate friends, family members, and romantic partners
• Proxemics


  study of personal space
• Illustrators


  gestures that go along with a verbal message to clarify it
• Emblems


  nonverbal gestures that have well-understood definitions within a given culture; they usually have direct verbal translations, such as the OK sign
• Accenting


  nonverbal behaviors that emphasize part of a verbal message
• contradicting


  verbal and nonverbal messages that send conflicting messages
• supportive listening


  listening skills focused not only on understanding information but also "listening" to others' feelings
• Remembering


  Being able to recall and retain the information you heard
• Responding


  showing others how you regard their message
• understanding


  The ability to assign accurate meaning to what was said
• Attending


  paying attention to someone's words well enough to understand what that person is trying to communicate
• hearing


  the physiological process of decoding sounds
• Euphemisms


  a word used in place of another word that is viewed as more disagreeable or offensive
• Opinion Statements


  based on the speaker's beliefs
• relative words


  words that gain their meaning by comparison
• semantic rules


  rules that specify the meanings of individual words
• empathy


  an understanding of another's feelings
• Stereotyping


  Judging someone on the basis of one's perception of the group to which that person belongs
• self-fulfilling prophecy


  a belief that leads to its own fulfillment
• self-esteem


  one's feelings of high or low self-worth
• self-concept


  all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question, "Who am I?"
• noise


  anything that interferes with, distorts, or slows down the transmission of information
• Receiver


  the person who receives the message
• Sender


  a person who transmits a message
• mass communication


  communication to a large audience that is transmitted by media
• Public Communication


  communication directed at an audience that is larger than a small group
• Interpersonal Communication


  direct, face-to-face communication between two or more people
• Intrapersonal Communication


  communication with oneself