CHAPTER 5Intrapersonal

Communication

Self-Talk

• Inner dialogue and our automatic nonverbal actions

• It starts at age 9, when we can think abstract thoughts

• Shapes our attitudes, which shape our behavior, which shapes the responses we get

Cognitive Processing

• How we process messages in relationship to our values, attitudes and beliefs

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Cognitive Processing

• How we process messages in relationship to our values, attitudes and beliefs

Cognitivedissonance

Self-Concept

Your idea of yourselfDetermines what you will

say about yourself and to whom

Self-esteemPhysicalMoral-ethicalFamilySocial

Avoid psychological vultures

Internally speaking, Why DO we communicate?

Needs drivesSurvivalPleasure seekingSecurityTerritoriality

Know thyself, and to thine own self be true

• The Self– Real– Ideal – Public self

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Why do we bother with the self?

• Self-disclosure– Self-revealing information

we willingly give others

• The self and others– Self-perceived I– Other-perceived Me– Goal is for I = Me

• Self-fulfillment

Disclose!

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