IP Concepts
List of Concepts covered in Class each Week
Fall Semester
Week 3 - Chapter 2: relativism, cultural evolution, enculturation, acculturation, power distance, masculinity/femininity, tolerance for ambiguity, individualism/collectivism, high & low context cultures, intercultural comm. competence, stereotypes, ethnocentrism, stages of culture shock, any of the concepts covered in the Japanese communication patterns Blackboard article.
Week 4 – Chapter 3: self-concept, self-awareness, self-esteem, Johari window & 4 selves, 5 stages of perception, self-fulfilling prophecy, implicit personality theory: halo/reverse halo effect, perceptual accentuation, primacy-recency, consistency, attribution of control & locus of control, self-serving bias, overattribution, fundamental attribution error, impression management strategies: (affinity-seeking, credibility, self-handicapping, self-deprecating, self-monitoring, influencing, and confirming strategies).
Week 5 – Chapter 5: social construction of reality, bypassing, denotation, connotation, (in)assertiveness vs. aggressiveness, (dis)confirmation, facework: face, face threats, face needs, negative/positive face, face dilemma, corrective/predictive facework, types of disclaimers, elements of apologies, politeness: directness/indirectness; inclusion/exclusion, racist language, sexist language, heterosexist language, ageist language, allness, intensional vs. extensional orientation
Week 6 – Chapter 7: 3 views of emotion (commonsense view, James-Lange theory, Cognitive Labeling theory), 3 elements of emotions, dyssemia, adaptive & maladaptive emotions, display rules, emotional contagion, emotional appeal, Plutchik’s model of emotions: (primary & secondary emotions), theories explaining sex differences (biological explanation, evolutionary theory, socialization theory), owning feelings & I-messages, ventilation hypothesis, SCREAM, guidelines for communicating anger
Week 7 – Chapter 8: self-disclosure, steps of the
Fall Semester
Week 3 - Chapter 2: relativism, cultural evolution, enculturation, acculturation, power distance, masculinity/femininity, tolerance for ambiguity, individualism/collectivism, high & low context cultures, intercultural comm. competence, stereotypes, ethnocentrism, stages of culture shock, any of the concepts covered in the Japanese communication patterns Blackboard article.
Week 4 – Chapter 3: self-concept, self-awareness, self-esteem, Johari window & 4 selves, 5 stages of perception, self-fulfilling prophecy, implicit personality theory: halo/reverse halo effect, perceptual accentuation, primacy-recency, consistency, attribution of control & locus of control, self-serving bias, overattribution, fundamental attribution error, impression management strategies: (affinity-seeking, credibility, self-handicapping, self-deprecating, self-monitoring, influencing, and confirming strategies).
Week 5 – Chapter 5: social construction of reality, bypassing, denotation, connotation, (in)assertiveness vs. aggressiveness, (dis)confirmation, facework: face, face threats, face needs, negative/positive face, face dilemma, corrective/predictive facework, types of disclaimers, elements of apologies, politeness: directness/indirectness; inclusion/exclusion, racist language, sexist language, heterosexist language, ageist language, allness, intensional vs. extensional orientation
Week 6 – Chapter 7: 3 views of emotion (commonsense view, James-Lange theory, Cognitive Labeling theory), 3 elements of emotions, dyssemia, adaptive & maladaptive emotions, display rules, emotional contagion, emotional appeal, Plutchik’s model of emotions: (primary & secondary emotions), theories explaining sex differences (biological explanation, evolutionary theory, socialization theory), owning feelings & I-messages, ventilation hypothesis, SCREAM, guidelines for communicating anger
Week 7 – Chapter 8: self-disclosure, steps of the