CHAPTER 5

Intrapersonal Communication

Self-Talk

Inner dialogue and our automatic nonverbal actions

You’re not crazyWe start talking to ourselves

around age 9, when we can conceptualize and think in abstraction

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 yourselfSelf-esteem

PhysicalMoral-ethicalFamilySocial

Determines what you will say about yourself and to whom

Self-LoveTooting our own horn is OK

sometimes

Theories of self

ClassicSpiritualMaterialSocialPhysical

InteractionIntegration of interactions

into our self-thought, which changes over time

SituationalYou are different people in

different places

Who are you?

Write as many adjectives as you can to describe

yourselves

Circle how many adjectives are…

Identity race / ethnicityGendersocial classNationalityage

Group affiliationPersonalityOther

List how any adjectives are public and how many are private

Circle the worst that you think is the most representative of you

What category has the most adjectives? Least?

Which category had the trait most representative of you? How would this change if you were from a different culture? Generation?

How many private and how many public traits were written? Is either any more or less real than another?

Were traits listed that, upon reflection you think other would consider positively if they found out? How about if a friend did? A stranger?

If your parents were asked to do this about you, how might their list differ from your list?

Next Class

Bring a personal object