Oral Communication Fall 2013

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Across
  1. 4. Sending angry and/or insulting emails, texts, and website postings
  2. 5. Agreement between group members about a decision
  3. 11. Medium through which a message passes from sender to receiver
  4. 12. The process where in sound waves strike the ear drum and cause vibrations that are transmitted to the brain
  5. 13. Process of attatching a meaning
  6. 15. Explicit, officially stated guideline that governs group functions and member behavior
  7. 17. The specialized vocabulary that is used as a kind of shorthand by people with common backgrounds and experience
  8. 18. The inability or unwillingness to express one's thoughts or feelings when necessary
  9. 20. The proecess of focusing on certain stimuli from the environment
  10. 21. Reciprocal communication pattern in which each persons message reinforces the other's
  11. 23. The degree of interest and attraction we feel toward and communicate to others. As with all relational messages, immediacy is usually expressed as nonverbally
  12. 26. The tendency to transmit messages without considering consequences
  13. 28. A non-linguistic verbalization
  14. 29. Both the physical setting in which communication occurs & the personal perspectives of the parties involved
  15. 31. The ability to influence others' thoughts and/or actions
  16. 32. The study of how humans use and structure time
  17. 33. Supportive communication behavior in which the sender expresses a message without any attempt to manipulate the receiver
  18. 34. A type of communication that suggests one person is better than the other
  19. 36. The originator of a message
  20. 39. The social need to influence others
Down
  1. 1. The patterns of behavior expected of group members
  2. 2. When communicators show that they beleive others have just as much worth as human beings
  3. 3. Graphic representation of the interaction patterns in a group
  4. 6. The perpetual process of applying exaggerated beliefs associated with a categorizing system
  5. 7. Compassion for another's situation
  6. 8. A collection of symbols, governed by rules and used to convey messages between individuals
  7. 9. Movements in which one part of the body grooms, massages, rubs, holds, fidgets, pinches, picks, or otherwise manipulates another point
  8. 10. Using silence and brief statements of encouragement to draw out a speaker
  9. 14. A defense-arousing behavior in which the sender expresses indiference toward a receiver
  10. 16. A response style in which a listener reassures, supports, or distracts the person seeking help
  11. 19. An approach to conflict resolution in which both parties attain at least part of what they seek through self-sacrifice
  12. 22. The attitude that one's own culture is superior to others
  13. 24. Deliberate nonverbal behaviors with precise meanings, known to virtually all members of a cultural group
  14. 25. The degree to which people like or appreciate one another. As with all relational messages, affinity is usually expressed nonverbally
  15. 27. Digital communication channels used primarily for personal reasons, often to reach small groups of receivers
  16. 30. A style in which the receiver listens carefully to gather information to use in an attack on the speaker
  17. 35. The degree to which we hold others in esteem
  18. 37. The range of topics about which an individual discloses
  19. 38. Language used by a group of people whose members belong to a similar coculture or other group
  20. 40. Shared values, beliefs, behaviors, and procedures that govern a group's operation