Interpersonal communication questions
Communication 35
Ch.1
1. Who was Fredrick II and what is his study? Fredrick II was one of the most powerful Holy Roman Emperors of the middle Ages and head of the House of Hohenstaufen. In the language deprivation experiment young infants were raised without human interaction in an attempt to determine if there was a natural language that they might demonstrate once their voices matured. It is claimed he was seeking to discover what language would have been imparted unto Adam and Eve by God.
2. Why do we communicate:
Physically: It helps build our immune system and our life span.
Identity: It helps us mold who we are as a person. Our mental capacity and ability to interact with other people.
Social: It creates satisfaction through pleasure, affection, companionship, escape, relaxation and control.
Practical: Goes with Instrumental goals (Getting others to behave in the way we want them too). Examples would be: Hairdresser cutting your hair the style you want it.
3. Linear vs. Transactional
Linear: which depicts communication as something a sender “does to” a receiver.
Transactional: reflects the fact that people send and receive messages simultaneously and not in a unidirectional or back-and-forth manner, as suggested by the linear model.
4. Content and relational types of communication:
5/6. Quantitative vs Qualitative-
Quantitative: any interaction between two people usually face to face. Social scientists call two people interacting a dyad , and they often use the adjective dyadic to describe this type of communication. So, in a quantitative sense, the terms dyadic communication and interpersonal communication can be used interchangeably. Using a quantitative definition, a salesclerk and customer or a police officer ticketing a speeding driver would be examples of interpersonal acts, whereas a preacher and class or a performer and audience would not.
Qualitative: when people treat one another as unique individuals,
Ch.1
1. Who was Fredrick II and what is his study? Fredrick II was one of the most powerful Holy Roman Emperors of the middle Ages and head of the House of Hohenstaufen. In the language deprivation experiment young infants were raised without human interaction in an attempt to determine if there was a natural language that they might demonstrate once their voices matured. It is claimed he was seeking to discover what language would have been imparted unto Adam and Eve by God.
2. Why do we communicate:
Physically: It helps build our immune system and our life span.
Identity: It helps us mold who we are as a person. Our mental capacity and ability to interact with other people.
Social: It creates satisfaction through pleasure, affection, companionship, escape, relaxation and control.
Practical: Goes with Instrumental goals (Getting others to behave in the way we want them too). Examples would be: Hairdresser cutting your hair the style you want it.
3. Linear vs. Transactional
Linear: which depicts communication as something a sender “does to” a receiver.
Transactional: reflects the fact that people send and receive messages simultaneously and not in a unidirectional or back-and-forth manner, as suggested by the linear model.
4. Content and relational types of communication:
5/6. Quantitative vs Qualitative-
Quantitative: any interaction between two people usually face to face. Social scientists call two people interacting a dyad , and they often use the adjective dyadic to describe this type of communication. So, in a quantitative sense, the terms dyadic communication and interpersonal communication can be used interchangeably. Using a quantitative definition, a salesclerk and customer or a police officer ticketing a speeding driver would be examples of interpersonal acts, whereas a preacher and class or a performer and audience would not.
Qualitative: when people treat one another as unique individuals,