Interpersonal Communications- Exam 1

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Most basic: - Physical needs for survival (air, food, sex) - Safety and Protection Needs (shelter) - Belonging Needs (inclusion, fun) - Self-esteem needs (respect) - Self-Actualization needs

Our ability to participate effectively in a very diverse social world.

It is a representation of what somethinbg is and how it works

The first models of communications, they depicted communications as a linear, or one-way process in which one person acts on another person. They imply that communication moves in one direction, from sender to passive reciever. THis is not the case as communication is an interactive process

Noise is anything that causes a loss of information as the information flows from source to destination. (spam, accents, background noise etc)

Communications model that protrayed communication as a process in which listeners give feedback, or response to a message. They also recognize that communicators interpret messages within personal fields of experience and when fields of experience do not over lap well misunderstandings can occur. Problem with them is they still portrayed communications as a sequential process, where as in reality everyone involved in communication both send and receiveve messages

Most recent model of communication, it emphasizes the dynamism of interpersonal communication and the multiple roles people assume during the process.

I-It communication I-You communication I-Thou communication

Treat others impersonally, almost as objects. Do not acknowledge the humanity of other people; we may not even affirm their existece

Accounts for the majority of our interactions. People acknowledge one another as more thn objects, but they don't fully engage each other as unique individuals

Rarest kind of relationship where each person affirms the other as cherished and unique

Selective, systemic, unique, processual transactions that allow people to reflect and build personal knowledge of one another and create shared meanings.

We select who and at what level we communicate with each individual

Measn that it takes place within various systems (e.g. societies, culture, belief etc)

At the deepest level, relationships that go beyond social roles, every person is unique and therefore irreplacable.