EDRD 2020 Final: Final Exam Review
1 Jun 2016
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Unit 1 (intro and chapters 1 & 2) Examines the ability to communicate in a personally effective and socially appropriate manner. Highlights that a person wishing to communicate competently works on five things: assigning meanings to their world, setting strategic goals, taking on appropriate social roles, presenting a valued image of themselves, generating intelligible messages. This unit also indicates the importance of practicing communication this refers to paying attention to the physical, mental, and emotional conditions of everyday communication. Interpersonal (dyadic) relationships are important to humans this can be broken down into the four views on relationships: relationships as constellations of behaviours, relationships as cognitive constructs, relationships as mini-cultures, relationships as collections of contradictory forces. The approaches used to understanding the significance of interpersonal communication in relationships are. Relationships can be identified through relational characteristics and by creating distinction between public and private relationships. Communication is an effort of meaning with numerous characteristics:
