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Communication
Undergraduate 3
10/18/2016

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Define FUNCTION:
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Something a system must do, or an operation it must perform, in order to avoid breakdown.
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Define MORPHOGENESIS:
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Form creating; change-promoting processes
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Define MORPHOSTATIS:
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Form maintaining; stability-promoting processes
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Define GENOGRAM:
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A pictorial display of a person's family relationships and medical history.
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Define ETHINICITY in terms of communication:
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  • Refers to critical factors, such as common ancestry, language, nationality and beliefs.
  • A family's ethnic heritage dictates the communication norms, which can be maintained for generations.
  • Multiracial/ethnic families are especially disclosure dependent.
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COMMUNICATION RULES:
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Are relationship agreements, often unconscious, that perscribe and limit a family member's behaviour over time.
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CALIBRATION:
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Function of maintaining stability; implies checking, and, if necessary, correcting the range of acceptable behaviours.
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MAINTENANCE FEEDBACK:
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Imply constancy or maintaining the standard while minimizing change.
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CHANGE PROMOTING FEEDBACK:
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Involves recalibration of a system at a different level.
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INTERACTIVE COMPLEXITY:
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Implies that each act triggers new behaviour as well as responds to previous behaviours, rendering it pointless to assign cause and effect.
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PUNCTUATION:
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Refers to the interruption of the sequence of behaviour at different intervals in order to give meaning or to indicate "things started here"
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FAMILY TRIANGLE:
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Characterized by two insiders and one outsider, and represents a powerful type of coalition.
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SYMBOLIC INTERACTION:
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  • Focuses on the connection between symbols, or shared meanings and interactions via verbal and non-verbal communication.
  • GEORGE MEAD
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DISCOURSE INEQUALITY:
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Focusing on the power in relationships and the fact that the discourses of our relational lives are not valued equally.
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NARRATIVE COHERENCE:
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Implies and internal consistency; all parts of the story are present and fit together. Structure, material, ad characters.
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NARRATIVE FIDELITY:
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A story needs direct ties to social reality in order to resonate with listener's personal experience and belief.
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RECOUNTING NARATIVES:
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A retelling of memories of what was experienced.
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ACCOUNTING NARRATIVES:
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Explanations or reasons for person's behaviours and/or situations.
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CONSTITUTIVE RULES:
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Tells members how to recognize and interpret speech acts; helps to understand why a person should (or should not) say something.
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REGULATIVE RULES:
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Prescribe acceptable speech behaviour; how, where, when, where and with whom to talk.
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ASSUMED CONNECTIONS:
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When you assume family members will see what you post in social media.
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VERTICAL COMMUNICATION:
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Occurs when real or imagined power differentiations characterize interactions.
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HORIZONTAL COMMUNICATION:
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Occurs when people perceive and equal status or power.
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MEDIATED INTERACTION:
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Using technology to stay connected.
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INTENTIONAL CONNECTIONS:
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Directed at a person; email, text, messenger.
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STORIES/NARRATIVE:
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A retelling of memories of what was experienced, tend to provide a history.
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ACCOUNTS:
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Provide explanations or reasons for the person's behaviour or situations.
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MASTER NARRATIVE:
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A story of extraordinary proportions, know to all members, that serves to define what it means to be a member.
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RELATIONAL MAINTENANCE:
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  • Routine behaviours of life that carry us through each day, usually in a patterned and often unreflective way.  
  • We maintain our families through everydau interactions, but sometimes stop and focus on a specific relational tie responding to situations and issues.
  • Huge area where relationships continue to exist between the point of their initial development and their possible decline.
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DEBRIEFING CONVERSATION:
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Talk about how a day or situation unfolded.
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