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| sum total of who a person is; a person's central inner force |
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| person's subjective description of who he or she is |
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| learned predisposition to respond to a person, object, or idea in a favorable or unfavorable way |
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| way in which you structure your understanding of reality- what is true and what is false to you |
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| enduring concept of good and bad, right and wrong |
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| subjective self-awareness |
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| ability to differentiate the self from the social and physical environment |
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| ability to be the object of one's own thoughts and attention- to be aware of one's state of mind and that one is thinking |
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| uniquely human ability to think about oneself and use language (symbols) to represent oneself to others |
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| concept of self as reflected in a total of all the tangible things you own |
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| concept of self as reflected in social interactions with others |
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| concept of self based on thoughts and introspections about personal values, moral standards, and beliefs |
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| concept that suggests you learn who you are based on your interactions with others, who reflect your self back to you |
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| symbolic interaction theory |
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| theory that people make sense of the world on the basis of their interactions with other people |
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| gender role that includes both masculine and feminine qualities |
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| ability to think about what you are doing while you are doing it |
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| study of how thinking influences behavior |
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| set of enduring internal predispositions and behavioral characteristics that describe how people react to their environment |
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| communibiological approach |
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| perspective that suggests that genetic and biological influences play a major role in influencing communication behavior |
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| behavioral tendency not to talk or interact with other people |
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| communication apprehension |
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| fear or anxiety associated with either real or anticipated communication with other people |
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| willingness to communicate |
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| general term for the likelihood that an individual will communicate with others in certain situations |
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| your evaluation of your worth or value based on your perception of such things as your skills, abilities, talents, and appearance |
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| process of comparing yourself to others who are similar to you to measure your worth and value |
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| feelings of regard for yourself and others, as reflected in your sense of worth and self-esteem |
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| person's positive perception of himself or herself in interactions with others |
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| using communication to maintain your own positive self-perception (self-face) or to support, reinforce, or challenge someone else's self-perception (other face) |
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| technique of imagining that you are performing a particular task in a certain way; a positive visualization can enhance self-esteem |
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| process of redefining events and experiences from a different point of view |
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| expression of empathy and concern for others that is communicated while listening to them and offering positive and encouraging words |
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| technique in which a person describes his or her problems and concerns to a skilled listener in order to better understand the emotions and issues that are creating the problems |
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| cognitive process in which you take into account another person's thoughts, feelings, values, background, and perspective |
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| specific-other perspective |
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| perspective that uses information that one can observe or imagine about another person to predict that person's behavior |
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| generalized-other perspective |
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| perspective that uses observed or imagined information about many people, or people in general, to predict a person's behavior |
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| prediction about future actions that is likely to come true because the person believes that it will come true |
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| interpersonal need to be included and to include others in social activities |
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| interpersonal need for some degree of influence in our relationships, as well as the need to be controlled |
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| interpersonal need to give and receive love, support, warmth, and intimacy |
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| style that is indentifiable by habitual ways in which you communicate with other people |
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| tendency to make requests, ask for information, and generally pursue your own rights and best interests |
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| tendency to be sensitive to the needs of others, including being sympathetic to other's feelings and placing the feelings of others above your own feelings |
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| purposefully providing yourself to others that they would not learn if you did not tell them |
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| model of self-disclosure and relational development that reflects both depth and breadth of shared information |
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| person's conscious understanding of who he or she is |
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| model of self-disclosure that summarizes how self-awareness is influenced by self-disclosure and information about yourself from others |
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| communication privacy management theory |
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| theory that suggests that we each manage our own degree of privacy by means of personal boundaries and rules for sharing information |
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| the reciprocal nature of self-disclosure: "you disclose to me, and i'll disclose to you" |
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