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| Six elements of interpersonal communication |
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• Source-receiver is the person who sends and receives interpersonal messages simultaneously.
• Encoding-decoding refers to the act of putting meaning into verbal and nonverbal messages and deriving meaning from the messages you receive from others.
• Competence is the knowledge of and ability to use effectively your own communication system.
• Messages are the signals that serve as stimuli for a receiver; metamessages are messages that refer to other messages.
○ Feedback messages are messages that are sent back by the receiver to the source in response to other messages.
○ Feedforward messages are messages that preface other messages and ask that the listener approach future messages in a certain way.
○ Messages can quickly overload the channels, making meaningful interaction impossible.
• Channels are the media through which messages pass and which act as a bridge between source and receiver, for example, the vocal-auditory channel used in speaking or the cutaneous-tactile channel used in touch.
• Noise is the inevitable physical, physiological, psychological, and semantic interference that distorts a message.
• Context is the physical, social-psychological, temporal, and cultural environment in which communication takes place.
• Ethics is the moral dimension of communication, the study of what makes behavior moral or good as opposed to immoral and bad. |
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Interpersonal communication is a transactional process.
• Interpersonal communication is a process, an ongoing event, in which the elements are interdependent; communication is constantly occurring and changing.
• Don't expect clear-cut beginnings or endings or sameness from one time to another. |
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| Cognitive Complexiity versus self monitoring |
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| Self-monitoring theory is a contribution to the psychology of personality, proposed by Mark Snyder in 1974. The theory refers to the process through which people regulate their own behavior in order to "look good" so that they will be perceived by others in a favorable manner. It distinguishes between high self-monitors, who monitor their behaviour to fit different situations, and low self-monitors, who are more cross-situationally consistent. |
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| Quantitative versus qualitative interpersonal communication |
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Quant-defines interpersonal communication as any interaction between 2 people. In DYAD
Qual,-occurs when p people treat one another as unique indiviudals, regardless of the contex in which the interaction occurs or the number of people involved. |
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| Computer mediated communicarion, |
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email instant messaging, , improve communiccation with family
Can increase both the amount and quality of interspersonal communciation,
Easier,
Asynchonous sharing
Express opinons more openly |
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Self-Concept
• Self-concept is the image you have of who you are.
• Sources of self-concept include others' images of you, social comparisons, cultural teachings, and your own interpretations and evaluations.
Is subjective, Healthy one is flexible, but often resists change(cognitive conservatism) |
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Self-Esteem
• Self-esteem is the value you place on yourself; your perceived self-worth.
• To increase self-esteem, try attacking your self-destructive beliefs, seeking affirmation, seeking out nourishing people, and working on projects that will result in success. |
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| perceptios of the judgements of those around her or him, makes you feel more or less valuable, |
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| the judgements that are especially influential in reflected aprrasal. |
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evaluating ourselves in termsm of how we compare with others,
Usally by reference groups |
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| Self fullfilling prophecy |
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Definition
1. Holding an expectation
2. Behaving in accordance with that expectation
3. The expectation coming to pass
4. Reinforcing the original expectation |
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Percieved self
Presenting self
Facework |
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Percieved self
Honest self examination, may not be accurate
Presenting self
The way we want to appear to others,
Facework
The verbal and nonverbal ways in which we act to maintain our own presting image and the images of others. |
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Nature of language
4 rules |
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Language is symbolic
Language is rule governed (phonological rules-combining sounds, semantic rules-symbols-and syntax) Prfromagmatic Rules-appropriate interpretations of messages
Lanuage is subjective-words can have totally different meanings depending on the person |
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| adapting ones speech style to match that of others with whom the communicator wants to identify-Diver-set themselves aprart from others , speaking in a way to emphasize their differences |
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Powerless speech mannerisms
Euphemisms- |
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Powerless speech mannerisms
Ex-I guess I'd like to….makes a person seem less confident
Euphemisms-
Too soften the blow of information presented
"I am not ready for commitment" |
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Shows how people communicate a situation at various levels of specificity
Starting at-you complain too much, ending you complain too much when we are at work |
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Elminating sexist language
Eliminating Disruptive language |
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Elminating sexist language
Use they instead of he and she,
Denote sex clearlys in a term, Congressman or Congresswoman
Eliminating Disruptive language
Fact-opinion confusion
Fact-interference confusion-trying to read someones mind instead of labeling the feelings that you noticed
Eliminating emotive language-the language that really anonces somones attitude instead of desribing something |
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