COMM 332 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Nonverbal Communication, Sensory Deprivation, Proxemics
25 Nov 2016
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NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION
Chapter 1:
Nonverbal communication:
Anything but words;
1. The communication
environment (physical & spatial)
2. The communicator’s physical
characteristics
3. Body movement and position
(gestures, posture, touching,
facial expressions, eye behavior,
and vocal behavior).
NV is part of the total
communication process.
Signals produced, or encoded, to
which meaning will be
attributed, not the process of
attributed meaning.
Communication
environment:
Physical:
Influence on nonhuman factors.
This may include architectural
styles, furniture, interior design,
lighting conditions, etc.
Spatial:
Proxemics is the study of the
use and perception of social and
personal space.
Explain how the following
adapts and compliments verbal
communication:
Complementing:
It can modify or elaborate verbal
messages. When NV and V
channels are complementary,
rather than conflicting, messages
are usually decoded more
accurately.
Substituting:
NV behavior can substitute for
verbal messages. It may indicate
more permanent characteristics
(sex, age), moderately long-
lasting features (personality,
attitudes social group), and
relatively short-term states of a
person.
Accenting:
To amplify parts of the verbal
message
Moderating:
To tone down parts of the verbal
message
Regulating:
This is done in 2 ways:
1. By coordinating our own V
and NV behavior in the
production of our
messages
2. By coordinating our V and
NV message behavior with
those of our interaction
partners
We regulate the production of
our own messages in a variety of
ways.
Chapter 2:
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Phylogeny:
The roots of human behavior in
evolutionary history
Evidence from:
1. Sensory deprivation
2. Neonates: behavior
minutes/hours after
birth
3. Twin Studies
4. Other animals
5. Multicultural studies
Differential emotions
theory (DET):
A strong genetic basis for facial
expressions, and thus, emotions
would produce the same
distinctive facial patterns in both
infants and adults
Twins studies:
The roots of nonverbal
communication
Power distance:
The extent of which a culture
maintains hierarchical status
and/or power differences among
its members
Individualism &
Collectivism:
The degree to which a culture
encourages individual needs,
wishes, desires, values versus
group and collective ones
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Document Summary
Anything but words: the communication environment (physical & spatial, the communicator"s physical characteristics, body movement and position (gestures, posture, touching, facial expressions, eye behavior, and vocal behavior). Nv is part of the total communication process. Signals produced, or encoded, to which meaning will be attributed, not the process of attributed meaning. This may include architectural styles, furniture, interior design, lighting conditions, etc. Proxemics is the study of the use and perception of social and personal space. Explain how the following adapts and compliments verbal communication: When nv and v channels are complementary, rather than conflicting, messages are usually decoded more accurately. It may indicate more permanent characteristics (sex, age), moderately long- lasting features (personality, attitudes social group), and relatively short-term states of a person. To tone down parts of the verbal message. This is done in 2 ways: by coordinating our own v and nv behavior in the production of our messages, by coordinating our v and.
