Chapter 3 Terms

5. assuming that because a person possesses some negative qualities that the person also possess other negative qualities
6. the self that contains knowledge about you that others have but that you do not
8. a general idea of how an event should unfold
11. the self-concept that results from the image of yourself that others reveal to you
13. the process by which one person in a dyad imitates the behavior of the other person
14. often-followed rule of perception: if messages or people are very different from each other, they probably dont belong together and do not constitute a set or group
15. the communication of support and approval
17. that self that contains information stating that no communication can ever be re-created in quite that same way because circumstances are never the same
19. a principle of attraction holding that we are attracted to qualities similar to those we possess and to people who are similar to ourselves
20. physical closeness; one of the qualities infulencing

1. the self knowledge that you have but that is kept hidden from others
2. an individual's self-evaluation
3. a perceptual process that infulences us to maintain balance among our perceptions
4. the degree to which a speaker is perceived to be believable
7. the process of attributing one's behavior to one of a few particular characteristics
9. the self that is known by others and by yourself
10. a diagram of the four selves that details the different kinds of information in each self
12. the vaule you place on yourself
16. the process of becoming aware of objects and events from the senses
18. mental templates or structure that help us organize the millions of items of information we come into contact with every day