COMM 1041 Lecture 19: Team Teaching Day 1
17 Nov 2016
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Perceptual contact - you see, hear, read a message from a person and form a mental and physical picture. Interactional contact - superficial and relatively impersonal contact made after perception. The stage where you decide if you want to pursue the relationship. A kind of testing goes on to see if your initial judgement proves to be reasonable. Flirting is used to move from the stage of involvement to intimacy. The other individual becomes your best friend, lover, or companion. Quality / quantity of interpersonal exchange increases. Relationship satisfaction increases when moving into this stage. 2 phases of intimacy stage: private way. Interpersonal commitment phase: two people commit to each other in a. Social bonding phase: the commitment is made public and the couple becomes a unit (social media) 2 phases of the relationship repair stage: Begins when the bonds between friends / lovers weaken.
