COMM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Stress Management
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Improved professional skills: positive relationship changes, higher self image. We communicate for specific functions: expressing affiliation, managing relationships. Affiliation: the feeling of connectedness you have with others you show how you want to be associated with someone by expressing liking love or respect- or, alternatively, dislike, hatred of disrespected. Basic, but important concepts: relationships (cid:449)e (cid:272)ould(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e a(cid:374) e(cid:454)(cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge of sig(cid:374)s/s(cid:455)(cid:373)(cid:271)ols if there (cid:449)as o(cid:374)l(cid:455) o(cid:374)e perso(cid:374) Interdependence the nature of your relationship and what you seek from each other. To help us achieve our goals through control, convince others of what we think is right. Beyond these functions, communication is an aspect of critical thinking, a challenge to understand and improve your experience and interactions every day. Good communication combines functions you"re trying to achieve with critical thinking. Process of communication involves taking an idea and putting it into a message (encoding) and receiving that message and interpreting its meaning (decoding: symbolic.
