Chapter 5 Interpersonal Skills and Human Behavior
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| Adage | A saying, often in metaphoric form, that embodies a common observation.
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| Aggressive | Forceful or intended to dominate; hostile, injurious, or destructive, especially when referring to a behavior caused by frustration.
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| Ambiguous | Capable of being understood in two or more possible senses or ways; unclear.
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| Animate | To fill with life; to give spirit and support to expression.
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| Battery | An offensive touching or use of force on a person without his or her consent.
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| Caustic | Marked by sarcasm.
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| Channels | Means of communication or expression; courses or directions of thought.
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| Comfort Zone | A place in the mind where an individual feels safe an confident.
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| Congruent | Being in agreement, harmony, or correspondence; conforming to the circumstances or requirements of a situation.
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| Decodes | Converts, as in a message, into intelligible form; recognizes and interprets.
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| Defense Mechanisms | Psychological methods of dealing with stressful situations that are encountered in day-to-day living.
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| Encodes | Converts from one system of communication to another; converts a message into code.
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| Encroachments | Actions that advance beyond the usual or proper limits.
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| Enunciate | To utter articulate sounds; the act of being very distinct in speech.
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| External Noise | Sounds or factors outside the brain that interfere with the communication process.
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| Externalization | The attribution of an event or occurance to causes outside the self.
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| Feedback | The transmission of evaluative or corrective information to the original or controlling source about an action, event, or process.
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| Grief | Reaction to an unfortunate outcome; a deep distress caused by bereavement, a loss, or a perceived loss.
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| Internal Noise | Factors inside the brain that interfere with the communication process.
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| Language Barrier | Any type of interference that inhibits the communication process and is related to languages spoken by the people attempting to communicate.
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| Litigious | Prone to engage in lawsuits
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| Malediction | Speaking evil or the calling of a curse.
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| Media | A term applied to agencies of mass communication, such as newspapers, magazines, and telecommunication.
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| Paraphrasing | To express an idea in different wording in an effort to enhance communication and clarify meaning.
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| Perception | Capacity for comprehension; an awareness of the elements of the environment.
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| Physiologic Noise | Physiologic interferences with the communication process.
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| Pitch | Highness or lowness of a sound; the relative level, intensity, or extent of some quality or state.
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| Proxemics | The study of the nature, degree, and affect of the spatial separation individuals naturally maintain.
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| Sarcasm | A sharp and often satirical response or ironic utterance designed to cut or inflict pain.
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| Stereotype | Something conforming to a fixed or general pattern; a standardized mental picture that is held in common by many and represents an oversimplified opinion, prejudiced attitude, or uncritical judgment.
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| Stressors | Stimuli that cause stress.
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| Subtle | Difficult to understand or perceive; having or marked by keen insight and ability to penetrate deeply and thoroughly.
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| Thanatology | The study of the phenomena of death and of psychological methods of coping with death.
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| Vehemently | In a manner marked by forceful energy; intensely, emotionally
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| Volatile | Easily aroused; tending to erupt in violence.
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