COMM330- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 39 pages long!)

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Communication
• Course: COMM330
• Professor: Caplan

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Lecture 1: goals of interpersonal communication: communication misconceptions, more communication will usually help fix problems with others. It"s (cid:374)ot (cid:374)e(cid:272)essarily more communication that will fix the problem: effective communicators are born, not made, anyone can learn to be an effective communicator! In class, someone is texting, someone is sleeping, someone is nodding, and the teacher adjusting and catering to those behaviors: the communication process, messages. Intimacy: you are not supposed to be intimate with a professor or someone in a (cid:271)usi(cid:374)ess relatio(cid:374)ship, it"s (cid:373)u(cid:272)h (cid:373)ore dista(cid:374)t, task vs. social orientation. When you go to a (cid:449)eddi(cid:374)g, you sit (cid:449)here you"re supposed to. Lesson 3: relational level cues: (cid:862)although co(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)i(cid:272)atio(cid:374) is a (cid:449)a(cid:455) to e(cid:454)p(cid:396)ess ideas, get thi(cid:374)gs do(cid:374)e, e(cid:374)te(cid:396)tai(cid:374), o(cid:396) persuade, it is much more than that: it is the process that defines who we are. The quality of your interpersonal communication affects the (cid:395)ualit(cid:455) of (cid:455)ou(cid:396) life! (cid:863) john.