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COMM 43 Midterm
Communications terms- Intro to interpersonal comm.
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Communication
Undergraduate 1
10/07/2024

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Secure Attachment Style
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Low anxiety & avoidance → person does not worry about being alone, doesn't avoid relationships, they have high self-esteem and can manage their emotions
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Dissmisive Attachment Style
Definition
Low anxiety & high avoidance → A person does not fear being alone, so they avoid relationships
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Fearful Attachment Style
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High anxiety & avoidance → A person fears being alone, and avoids relationships because of rejection, so they usually stick to people who won't abandon them (ex: family)
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Preoccupied Attachment Style
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High anxiety & low avoidance → A person needs to be with someone and worries about being alone, but they are scared of rejection
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How can someone become more securely attached?
Definition
-Achieve a healthy relationship with oneself by building emotional regulation, building self-esteem
-Leave relationships that make you fearful or preoccupied
-Replace toxic relationships with securely attached people.
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Strategies for Competent Supportive Communication
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-Express sympathy and condolences
-Encouragement for others to express their emotions
-Open listening
-Location
-Ask questions and paraphrase
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Openess Personality Trait
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Likes to learn new things and enjoys new experiences
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Conscientiousness
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Behaves cautiously, takes obligations too serious, and keeps long-term goals
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Extraversion
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Outgoing and social
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Agreeableness
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cooperative, polite, kind, and friendly
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Neuroticism
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experiences negative emotions or bad thoughts about themselves
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#1 TRAIT Extraversion
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positive emotions, rate themselves better at handling stress and emotional communication, need to have meaningful friendships to reach joy and peace
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#2 TRAIT Agreeableness
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happier, able to manage stress, skilled at managing emotional communication, scores higher on emotion management tests, need to have a meaningful romance
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Neuroticism
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negative emotions, rate themselves as less happier, less skilled at handling emotional communication, need to have security ( safe enough to trust)
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Sex
Definition
biological features of someone’s person, such as female or male reproductive organs and hormones. (Intersex is a third, rarer category where someone is identified with
biological features of both genders). Biological sex is an innate event that is beyond the control of the individual, which is why some people do not feel an affinity to the gender they were assigned at birth.
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Gender
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a broader term that encompasses the social, psychological, and behavioral attributes that a particular culture associates with an individual’s biological sex (i.e. how you’re expected to act in a culture as a man, woman, boy, girl, etc.).” Gender identities are individual choices based on someone’s internal sense of self.
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Gender Identity
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sense of self associated with gender is called gender identity, which can be different from the assigned sex and can include any gender someone may identify as.
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Gender Expression
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Gender expression is how someone portrays their respective gender identity to others. Gender expression can take many forms such as hairstyle, clothing, mannerisms, and preferred names or pronouns.
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Critiques of saying a trans man/woman is not a real man/woman
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Reasons people add their pronouns to their bio
Definition
To let others know what pronouns to use when speaking to them, avoids misgendering people,
Can signal that you are a member and support the LGBTQ community
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