Page 1 of 3 In order to learn more about interpersonal communication and how to improve my skills‚ I had conversations with two very different people. The first person that I spoke to was my mother. We are very close and it is easy to talk to her. On April 24‚ 2009‚ we sat outside on her deck and discussed the employment opportunities that will become available to me when I graduate from Penn Foster. The entire exercise took only fifteen minutes. My second conversation was about
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write about the formation of romantic relationships. Formation is the very early stage of the relationship including initial attraction. The reinforcement affect theory suggests that we form relationships as a result of operant conditioning and classical conditioning which means that the person we formed the relationship with is because of an association that we made between them and a positive feeling‚ therefore feeling happier when you are around them. This theory also claims that the aspects of the
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Describe and Evaluate 2 theories of relationship formation (24 marks) One of the theories of relationship formation is the filter process model. This model is brought about by Kerckoff and Davis 1962; they said that there are 3 filters that a potential relationship goes through‚ in order to be a strong‚ long term relationship. They said that the ‘field of availables’ are the potential partners the individual could have a relationship with‚ then as they filter out the potential partners it becomes
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Outline and evaluate two theories on the maintenance of relationships (24 marks) The social exchange theory proposed that social behaviour is viewed as a series of exchanges between individuals‚ where each individual attempts to maximise their rewards and minimise their costs. In 1959‚ Thibaut & Kelley outlined a four-stage model of long-term relationships. The couple explores the rewards and costs in a variety of relationships and ‘costs out’ the relationship‚ identifying the sources of profit
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(Faeth 2004). The exercise of power is legitimated through authority (Weber 1947) and Weber was the first to develop a systematic version of these terms as keystone of his social theory. Lewin (1941) developed the study of leadership by introducing the concept of social power in terms of the differential between interpersonal force and resistance. French and Raven described five sources of power namely reward power‚ coercive power‚ legitimate power‚ referent power and expert power (Raven & French 1958)
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Quantitative Versus Qualitative Interpersonal Communication Quantitative interpersonal communication is described as any communication between two individuals‚ whether it is between two friends or simply two strangers that are only interacting for a matter of seconds. It is defined by the number of people in the interaction that is taking place. An example of this type of communication might be two people passing each other on the street and saying “Good morning” or “How do you do?”. They
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Unit 1 – Public Service Skills; Task 5 – Interpersonal Communication Skills. There are many different types of Interpersonal Communication skills. In this report I will be explaining the effectiveness and the need for these. Reading – In every public service‚ you will be expected to be able to read to an acceptable standard. This is because‚ if you’re a police recruit‚ you will have the expectations of reading skills because your role would involve digesting large amounts of written material. There
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Williams and Bargh (2008) in their article “Experiencing Physical Warmth Promotes Interpersonal Warmth” conducted experiments that provided support for theory of the linking relationship between physical warmth and mental warmth. The findings showed that tactile experience of warmth activates the feelings of interpersonal warmth and thus influencing people’s judgment and behaviors toward other people without even noticing the influences themselves. The article provided sound explanations for the
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Supervisors’ Relationships 3 Workplace Relationship Quality: 4 Peer Relationships 4 Study Description and Results 5 Interpersonal Conflict 6 Identifying Conflicts and Causes 6 Dealing with Interpersonal Conflict 7 Culture and Interpersonal Conflict 7 Intimate Workplace Relationships 8 Managing Workplace Relationships 9 Managing Conflict 9 Management by Deception: Deceptive Impression Management 10 References: 12 Introduction: When considering workplace relationships‚ consider
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Instructor: Interpersonal Case Study Love is not always about you feelings. Sometimes real love is about what you do no matter how you feel. Webster defines a relationship as‚ “an emotional or other connection between people.” My definition of a relationship is an agreement of sacrifice‚ trust‚ and friendship between two people. Relational Dialectics Theory explains the tensions in the personal relationship I have with my boyfriend‚ Claude Jackson. In this paper I will discuss the theory of Relational
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