Interpersonal Communication Final Review

1. Interpersonal CommunicationFinal Review COMM321 Spring 2014

2. For this final… • Review chapters 9, 10, 11, 12 and your class notes. • Review all of the terms in the margin of the book chapter. • Consider how the “grand theories” apply to the information in these four chapters. • Focus on “Be Other Oriented Sections.”

3. The Basics (Theory)

4. Systems Theory

5. Onion Model of Culture

6. Understanding IP Relationships • An IP relationship is a “perception shared by two people of an ongoing connection that results in the development of relational expectations and varies in interpersonal intimacy.” • Choice vs Circumstance

7. Types of Power Relationships • Complementary Relationships • Symmetric Relationships • Competitive Relationship • Submissive Symmetric Relationship • Parallel Relationships

8. Types of Power • Legitimate Power • Referent Power • Expert Power • Reward Power • Coercive Power

9. Stages of Interpersonal Relationships • Relational Development • Turning Point • “Model of Relational Development” • Escalation and De-escalation

10. Relationship Theories • Social Exchange Theory • Costs and Rewards • Uncertainty Reduction Theory • Gathering information to control and predict

11. Relationship Challenges • Violations of relational expectations and failure events • Reproach and account

12. Ending Relationships • Bilateral Dissolution • Unilateral Dissolution • Fading Away • Sudden Death • Incrementalism • “A Model of Ending Relationships” (Figure 11.1) • Direct Strategies vs Indirect Stratagies

13. Family Self-defined unit made up of any number of persons who live or have lived in relationship with one another over time in a common living space and who are usually, but not always, united by marriage and kinship.

14. A Circumplex Model of Family Interaction