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Comm 415 Exam 1

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what are the reasons for studying conflict   inevitable, affects personal health, relational health, skills of comfort, skills of conflict are not obvious from birth,  
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what is conflict   struggle among small number of individuals arising from preceived interference with goal acheivement  
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what are the key charicteristics of conflict   # of people, scarce, perception, interference, interdependence  
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what are the four types of tangable goals   substanive-tangable Relational - what we mean to eachother face - self esteem / how you look in front of others Process - how we comm / interact  
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what are barnlands 6 views of perception   how you view yourself how you view the other person how you believe the other person sees you how there person views themselves how how the other person views you how the other person believes you see them  
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communication competance   impression that comm behavior is both appropriate and effective  
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three componants of comunication competence   knowledge ability motivation  
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knowledge   appropriate and effective skills  
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ability   willingness to engage in appropriate  
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what metaphors are often used to define conflict   kitchen sink, conflict is like a "papercut"  
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latent conflict   conflict will occur later  
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psuedo conflict   not a conflict at all, sisters and orange  
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dennotative   dictionary  
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connotative   personal definition  
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attribution theory   internal and external processof interupting and understanding what is behind our own and other behaviors  
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original theorist of attribution   weiner  
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weiner thought   we are all naive scientists  
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what types of attributions do we make   internal/external stable/unstable - assume cause continues over time global / specific  
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self serving bias   we favor ourselves  
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fundamental attribution error   internal attributions of others external attributions of others  
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constructivism   people create meaning through a series of personal constructs  
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original theorist of constructivism   Jesse De'lia  
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personal constructs   what it means to be student, brother, worker  
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cognitive complexity   measure of complexity or simplicity of the frame and perceptual skill of a person  
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comm privacy management   all people have personal boundary rules  
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original theorist of comm privacy management   Sandra Patronio  
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boundary rule of formation   what is talked about, what isnt  
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boundary linkage   describing strength of relationship  
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boundary coordination   agree not to share  
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boundary turbulance   inability to coodinate boundary rules, person 2 cant wait to tell person 2's info  
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conflict topic   what the conflict is all about  
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flash point   event that precipitates event  
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conflict cause   why the flashpoint or topic led to the conflict  
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sense making / internal rationalization process   is the dress black and blue or white and gold  
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what individual differences impact conflict management styles   emotional differences and changes  
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neoticicism   the extent to which ppl respond with negativity to their social world in terms of having anxious, depressed and angry thoughts and feelings  
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locus of control   how individuals vary in their assessments of mastery over their outcomes  
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high internal   takes things personally  
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high external   envirnmental factors  
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which goals do we tend to discuss   identity and relational  
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which goals tend to drve conflict   face and perpetual  
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meta comm   comm about comm  
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expectancy violation theory   we have expectations or social norms and when they arent met, we dont like it  
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what factors influence serial arguments   goal importance argument predictability disagreement relational quality  
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what do clear goals look like   include behviorally specifc suggestions recognize that conflict may be an ongoing process focus on present and future NOT PAST  
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what limitations does social science research face   impossible to obtain complete control difficult to generalize research bias specialized sample pool  
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low context culture   direct, dont beat around the bush, lots of words, blunt  
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high context culture   indirect, value silence, nonverbal ques  
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generatonal cohort   textmessage breakup  
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power   ways to influence  
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five styles of conflict management   competition with drawl collaboration compremise accomidate  
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compitition   using attacks and threats shark  
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withdrawal   avoid situatiion maintain nutrality turtle  
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collaboration   expand range of possible options win/win outcomes owl  
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compremise   minimally acceptable to all relationships undamaged fox  
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accomodate   attempt to maintain harmony teddy bear  
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humor   can escalate/de-escalate situations  
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productive humor   benefits both parties common ground establishment  
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unproductive humor   changes topic making fun of sarcasm hostility  
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trust   individuals belief in, and willingness to act on the bias of the words, actions, and decisions of another  
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privledge   the taking advantage of  
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unearned privledge   male/white privelidge checklist  
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French and Ravens sources of power   reward coercive legitamate expert referent  
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reward   gift  
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coercive   blackmail  
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legitimate   boss status  
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expert   exp/knowledge  
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referent   you are liked or respected  
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genderlect   masculine comm is domanate female comm is deviant/has own dialect  
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tag questions   question after a question or statement, to almost ask for approval  
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