Exam 2 Lecture 9&10: Interpersonal Communication

Question 1

Interpersonal Communication

Answer 1

Communication between two or more people, which assumes that all parties are dependent on each other. [Focuses on relationships and communication]

Question 2

What are the four reasons we communicate as discussed in class?

Answer 2

• To gain information
• To build a context of understanding
• To establish an identity
• Interpersonal needs (Inclusion, Control,Affection)

Question 3

What is the difference between a content message and a relationship message?

Answer 3

A content message accounts for what exactly you have said while a relationship message is defined as “how you said it”.

Question 4

What are the three interpersonal needs that drive interpersonal communication?

Answer 4

inclusion
control
affection

Question 5

What are the four principles that define interpersonal communication?

Answer 5

1. Interpersonal Communication is inescapable.
2. Interpersonal Communication is irreversible.
3. Interpersonal Communication is complicated.
4. Interpersonal Communication is contextual.

Question 6

How is Interpersonal Communication inescapable?

Answer 6

• We can’t not communicate.
• Refusing to communicate is still communicating.
• Verbal and nonverbal channels are constantly working.

Question 7

How is Interpersonal Communication irreversible?

Answer 7

• You can’t unsay somthing

- The jury will disregard the last statemen

Question 8

How is Interpersonal Communication complicated?

Answer 8

• How many people are actually in the conversation
• We don’t actually exchange ideas, but symbols
• words can be used differently in different contexts and cultures
• If communication can go wrong, it will

Question 9

How is Interpersonal Communication contextual?

Answer 9

• pshycological context [needs, desires, values]
• Relational context [your relationship with other parties]
• Situational context [psycho-social “where” Northgate vs. this classroom]
• environmental Context [physical “where” Noise, tempurature, chair, comfort]
• Cultural Context [Norms and cultural rules texans and asians]

Question 10

What are Osmo Wiio’s four laws?

Answer 10

1. If communication can fail, it will.
2. If a message can be understood in different ways, it will be understood in just that way which does the most harm.
3. There is always sombody who knows better than you what you meant by your message.
4. The more communication there is, the more difficult it is for communication to succeed.

Question 11

Social Exchange Theory

Answer 11

Relationships change as there is more communication. How does this conversation change my relationship with the persons?

Question 12

Relational Dialectics Theory

Answer 12

The way we communicate is dictated by tension between these concepts;

- Connectedness and separateness
- Clarity and uncertainty
- openess and closedness

Question 13

Social communication theory

Answer 13

we reveal more about ourselves aas communicaton continues.