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| • What is the general relationship between communication and needs (basic and abstract) |
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o Humans use communication to survive.
o Communication also keeps us from danger and harm. |
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| • What are the five needs in Maslow’s hierarchy? Be prepared to recognize examples of communication meeting each need. |
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o Self-acualization Needs
o Self-Esteem Needs
o Belonging Needs
o Safety and protection needs
o Physical needs for survival. |
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| • What sixth need does Wood suggest communication can help us meet? |
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o Participating Effectively in a Diverse Society.
• The likelihood of meeting the needs Maslow discussed depends on our ability to participate effecitely in a very diverse social world. |
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| • In what order do we focus on needs? |
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o PSBSESA
• Physical Needs
• Safety Needs
• Belonging Needs
• Self-Esteem Needs
• Self-Actualization Needs |
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we treat others very impersonally, almost as objects.
• We do not acknowledge the humanity of other people; we may not even affirm their existence. |
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Accounts for the majority of our interactions.
• People acknowledge one another as more than objects, but they don’t fully engage each other as unique individuals. |
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• Highest form of human dialogue because each person affirsm the other as cherished and unique.
• See them as human beings. |
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| • What are the elements of your text’s definition of interpersonal communication and how are they defined? |
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o Selective: we invest the effort and take the risks of opening ourselves fully to very few people.
o Systemic: Comm takes place within various systems.
• Varies across cultures.
• Because interpersonal comm. Is systemic, situation, time, people, culture, personal histories, and so forth interact to affect meanings.
• All comm. Systems have noise, which can be physiological, physical, psychological or semantic.
o Unique: comm. Is unique.
• Just as every person is unique, so is each friendship and romatic relationship.
o Processual: Interpersonal comm. Is an ongoing, continuous process.
• Comm evolves over time, becoming personal as people interact.
o Transactional: Interpersonal comm. Is a process of transaction between people.
o Individual: the deepest level of interpersonal comm. Involves engaging others as individuals who are unlike anyone else.
o Personal: Fosters personal knowledge and insights.
o Meaning Creating: shared meanings between people.
• Content meaning: deals with literal, or denotative meaning.
• Relationship meaning: what comm. Expresses about relationships between communicators. |
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| • What is the relationship between self and communication? Given this, can our self-concept change over time? |
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o The self arises in communication and is multidimensional processes of internalizing and acting from social perspectives.
o As we interact with others, we import, or internalize, their perspectives so that we come to share many of their perspectives as well as many of their perceptions of who we are. |
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| When people communicate positively about us and reflect positive appraisals of our self-worth. |
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| When people communicate negatively about us and our self worth. |
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| Extreme Downers → they not only communicate negative images of us but also attack our self-concepts just as actual vultures prey on their victims. |
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| • What is the paradox of perception |
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o We have high faith/trust in our perceptions
o Our perceptions are often inaccurate. |
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| • What are the 3 processes making up perception? |
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| Selecting, Organizing, Interpreting |
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| the active process of creativing meaning by selecting, organizing, and interpreting people, objects, events, situations, and other phenomena. |
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| • We can’t attend to every thing in our environment, because there is far too much going on in and around us, and we don’t view most of it as relevant to us at any given moment. |
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| o Prototype: defines the most clearest or most representative examples of some category. |
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| o Personal Constructs: ‘mental yardstick” we use to measure a person or situation along a bipolar dimension of judgement. |
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| o Stereotypes: a predictive generalization about a person or situation. Based on the category in which we place someone or something and how that person or thing measures up against the personal constructs we apply, we predice that he, she or it will do. |
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