The communication of support and approval. Define interpersonal communication. 6. pages References-1 through References-3 pages References-1 through References-3 pages Index-1 through Index-2 pages Index-1 through Index-2 4. 2. behaviors designed to increase interpersonal attractiveness, the communication of support and approval, the processes by which we assign causation or motivation to a person's behavior, represents all the things about you that others know but of which you're ignorant, a tendency to maintain balance in your perception of messages or peiple; because of this process, you tend to see what you expect to see and to be uncomfortable when your perceptions run contrary to expectations, a principle of perception that holds that items that are very distinct from each other are seen as separate and not belonging to the same group, techniques by which you seek to establish your competence, character and charisma, an attitude and way of behaving in which you're aware of and acknowledge cultural differnces, the tendency to overvalue and give added weight to the contribution of internal factors to behavior, and to undervalue and give less weight to the contribution of external factors, the tendency to generalize a person's virtue or expertise from one area to other areas, contains all that you know of yourself that you keep secret, techniques you use to communicate or to confirm your self-image, the image you want others to see, the tendency to disregard outward signs of success and to consider oneself an "imposter," a fake, a fraud, one who doesn't really deserve to ve considered successful, the process by which you perceive another person and ultimately come to some kind of evaluation or interpretation of this person, the process you go through to communicate the impression you want the other person to have of you, strategies designed to influence the attitudes or behaviors of others, a step in perception that is influenced by experiences, needs, wants, values, and beliefs about the way things are or should be, the desire to be autonomous, to have the right to do as you wish, represents all the information about you- behaviors, attitudes, feelings, desires, motivations, and ideals-that you and others know, a quality of interpersonal effectiveness involving attentiveness, interest, and concern for the other person, the tendency to attribute to one of two characteristics most or even all of what a person does, the process by which you become aware of objects and events through your senses, the process of verifying your understanding of some message, situation, or feeling, a process that leads you to see what you expect or want to see, a theory of personality, complete with rules about what characteristics, that you maintain and through which you perceive others, stategies that are often used to make ourselves appear likable, in terms of negative and positve types, the desire to be viewed positively by others, to be thought of favorably, giving more importance to that which occurs first instead of that which occurs last or more recently, as a principle of perception, the tendency to perceive people or events that are physically close as belonging together or representing some unit; physical closeness- one of the qualities influencing interpersonal attraction, the condition in which you make a prediction of success, act as if it is true, and thereby make it come true; a type of self-fulfilling prophecy, the perception stage that involves accessing the information stored in memory, giving more importance to that which occurs last or more recently instead of that which occurs first, the tendency to judge a eprson you know to have several negative qualities also to have other negative qualities; also known as the horns effect, ways of organizing perceptions; mental templates or structures that help you organize the millions of items of information you come into contact with everyday as well as those you already have in memory; general ideas about groups of people or individuals, about yourself, or about yourself, or about types of social roels, a type of schema; an organized body of infomration about some action, event or procedure; providesa general idea of how some events should play out or unfold, the rules governing the events and their sequence, the tendency to attend to those things that you want to see or that you expect to see, the tendecy to expose your senses to certain things and not others, to actively seek out information that supports your beliefs and to actively avoid information that contadicts these beliefs, the tendency to perceive certain things and not others; includes selective attention and selective exposure, your self-image, the view you have of who you are, techniques you use to signal your inability to do some task or your incompetence to encourage another to help you out, beliefs that create problems; often beliefs that are unrealistic and set goals that are impossible to achieve, the value you place on yourself; your self-evaluation, the situation in which you make a prediction or prophecy and fulfill it yourself, techniques you use to excuse possible failure, for example, setting up barriers or obstacles to make the task impossible so that, when you fail, you won't be blamed or thought ineffective, techniques you use to monitor what you say or do carefully, a bias that operates in the self-attribution process, leading you to take credit for the positive consequences or your behaviors and to deny responsibility for the negative consequences, a principle of attraction holding that you're attracted to qualities similar to your own and to people who are similar to you, represents truths about yourself that neither you nor others know.