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South asian cultures.
priority given to harmony, group welfare, and interdependence.
HIGH CONTEXT COMMUNICATION STYLE(UNDETAILED) |
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western cultures
priority given to personal freedom, independence, and individual rights
LOW CONTEXT COMMUNICAITON STYLE(everything spelled out) |
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| Masculine vs feminine communication |
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GUYS: compete, accomplish goals, fight: guys want to solve problems
GIRLS: talk about their feelings
girls want to talk about them |
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| Ethnocentric vs cultural relativism |
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Ethno: our culture is right and everything else is wrong and weird.
Cultural: all cultures are equal and nothing is right/wrong |
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| Perception in an active process of noticing, organizing, and interpreting data from our environment and experiences to make sense of things. |
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| because we must perceive verbal and nonverbal communication, decode it, and then encode a response to it. |
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| when you notice things, schemas allow us to organize them. they are in our head. |
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| internal or external factors(he's a jerk) or external factor (he just broke up with his girlfriend) |
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| how we explain why something happens and why people do what they do |
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| we might base our interpretations on factors that wont change. (she is always late cause she has work) |
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| we feel a push-pull with another to be seperate and our "own person" as well as to be together |
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| we appreciate security and predictability yet we dont want too much routine |
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| we want to share things but still want to maintain our privacy |
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| need to compromise in the relationship: both needs met but neither fully satisfied |
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| 4 ways we deal with relational dialects |
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compromise:both needs met
separation-favors one need
segmentation- each need is assigned to certain issues
reframing-needs re-assed(so no opposite, everyone wants same thing) |
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independence-no interaction
invitational communication- express interest in interaction
explorational communication- explore possibilities for a relationship |
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| once your in a committed relationship we navagate it by: |
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managing relational dialetics
managing conflict
developing rules |
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| passionate, intense, fast moving |
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| comfortable, best friends |
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| playful, sometimes manipulative |
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| Intrapsychic processes(relationships start to break down when...) |
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women- communication declines in quality or quantity
men- dissatisfied by specific behavior or the lack of valued behaviors |
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breakdown of established patterns
seek social support elsewhere |
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partners separate
resurection process- getting over the breakup, moving on |
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| challenges with relationships |
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different communicaiton styles
distance(long distance relationships)
not always doing what just one person wants |
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| they are usually appointed by someone |
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| they are experts in their topic area |
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| power based on personal charisma and personality |
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| 4 stages of interaction for small groups |
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forming
storming(conflict between the groups, we have to play different roles)
Norming- back to normal
performing- performing a task which was the reason for creating the group |
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interaction, interdependence, incompatibility
conflict: when people who are interdependent have different views, interest or goals |
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disruptive- they interfere with effective work and healthy climate of a group
constructive- when members understand that disagreements can help them reach their goals |
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distributive vs integrative
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distributive: a win-lose approach
integrative: a win-win approach |
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