COMM 1101 Lecture 3: Communication Chapter 2
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Contemporary approaches to studying human communication: ways to investigate interpersonal conflict. Interviews about behavior during conflict, observe cross sex couples during conflict in natural settings or labs: create and test hypothesis, way socialized, family, context, personalities, gender, situational elements, social science approach, interpretive, critical. The social science approach: assumptions, theories, methods, ethical issues, strengths, and: this approach originally focused on the individual, or less frequently, the dyad (a pair of. Limitations people who interact: grew out of fields of psychology and sociology. Assumptions: early researchers were oriented to behaviorism-branch of psychology that focuses on observable behavior, aim of comm was to describe. Predict, and explain human behavior with ultimate goal of discovering universal laws that apply across situations and contexts: believed predictions were possible because they saw reality as both observable and describable. Psychological association-ethical guidelines established by the medical profession. The interpretive approach: assumptions, theories, methods, ethical issues, strengths and.