COMM 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Meta-Communication, Paul Watzlawick, Chocolate Cake
3 Apr 2016
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Proof: means there"s 100% certainty not used in either method. Not limited to person-to-person, but easy to fall into this trap: easier to give person-to-person examples. Wrong to mistake this as a feature of interpersonal communication. Mental research institute: collection of psychologists with sociological training, notable for first formal training program in family therapy. Comm is more complicated than a collection of parts. The work of palo alto group focused on families as systems . The relational approach is grounded in an epistemology of form . Systems theory: looks at ways to study a system, to discover patterns and principles which can be applied to other systems, for communication, focus on patterns of communication within a system. Cybernetics: study of communication and regulatory feedback in living and nonliving systems. We"ll think about these ideas again looking at public communication. For now, the application is on how we can study patterns of communication and communicative feedback within a family setting.
