Interpersonal Communication - Week Three
Reading: Chapters 4 & 5
Journal Entry 2: Observation
Complete some “field observation” by notating one conversation that you hear or participate in (at least 250 words). Write your conversation in dialogue form, as accurately as you can remember it. Then write approximately 250 words describing the following: · Describe the context of the conversation (Who? What? When? Where? Why? Etc.). Please do not use any real names or identifying characteristics of people, other than yourself, if you so choose to identify yourself in the conversations.
· Review Table 5.1 and the corresponding explanation in your text, and justify your selection of the relational theme of the conversation.
· Identify and explain one more category of confirming or disconfirming response that you feel the conversation uses.
· Imagine that a version of this conversation occurred frequently. If a similar conversation occurred often between these individuals, what type of pattern would it be? Explain whether you think it would or would not be a URP if it were a repetitive conversation and why you think so. If you think it would be a URP, what strategy would you use to try to break it or stop the “spiral”?
Journal Entry 2: Observation
Complete some “field observation” by notating one conversation that you hear or participate in (at least 250 words). Write your conversation in dialogue form, as accurately as you can remember it. Then write approximately 250 words describing the following: · Describe the context of the conversation (Who? What? When? Where? Why? Etc.). Please do not use any real names or identifying characteristics of people, other than yourself, if you so choose to identify yourself in the conversations.
· Review Table 5.1 and the corresponding explanation in your text, and justify your selection of the relational theme of the conversation.
· Identify and explain one more category of confirming or disconfirming response that you feel the conversation uses.
· Imagine that a version of this conversation occurred frequently. If a similar conversation occurred often between these individuals, what type of pattern would it be? Explain whether you think it would or would not be a URP if it were a repetitive conversation and why you think so. If you think it would be a URP, what strategy would you use to try to break it or stop the “spiral”?
