Transcript Interpersonal Communication Final Review

Interpersonal Communication
Final Review
COMM321 Spring 2014
For this final…
• Review chapters 9, 10, 11, 12 and your class
notes.
• Review all of the terms in the margin of the
book chapter.
• Consider how the “grand theories” apply to
the information in these four chapters.
• Focus on “Be Other Oriented Sections.”
The Basics (Theory)
Systems Theory
Onion Model of Culture
Understanding IP Relationships
• An IP relationship is a “perception shared by
two people of an ongoing connection that
results in the development of relational
expectations and varies in interpersonal
intimacy.”
• Choice vs Circumstance
Types of Power Relationships
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Complementary Relationships
Symmetric Relationships
Competitive Relationship
Submissive Symmetric Relationship
Parallel Relationships
Types of Power
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Legitimate Power
Referent Power
Expert Power
Reward Power
Coercive Power
Stages of Interpersonal Relationships
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Relational Development
Turning Point
“Model of Relational Development”
Escalation and De-escalation
Relationship Theories
• Social Exchange Theory
– Costs and Rewards
• Uncertainty Reduction Theory
– Gathering information to control and predict
Relationship Challenges
• Violations of relational expectations and
failure events
• Reproach and account
Ending Relationships
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Bilateral Dissolution
Unilateral Dissolution
Fading Away
Sudden Death
Incrementalism
“A Model of Ending Relationships” (Figure
11.1)
• Direct Strategies vs Indirect Stratagies
Family
Self-defined unit made up of any number of
persons who live or have lived in relationship
with one another over time in a common
living space and who are usually, but not
always, united by marriage and kinship.
A Circumplex Model of Family
Interaction