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Interactional View
Comm Theory - Interactional View
Term | Definition |
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Family System | A self-regulating, interdependent network of feedback loops guided by members' rules; the behavior of each person affects and is affected by the behavior of another. |
Games | Sequences of behavior governed by rules. |
Family Homeostasis | The tacit collusion of family members to maintain the status quo. |
Symptom Strategy | Ascribing our silence to something beyond our control that renders communication justifiably impossible - sleepiness, headache, drunkenness, etc. |
Content | The report part of a message; what is said verbally. |
Relationship | The command part of the message; how it's said nonverbally. |
Metacommunication | Communication about communication. |
Punctuate | Interpreting an ongoing sequence of events by labeling one event as the cause and the following event as the response. |
Symmetrical Interchange | Interaction based on equal power. |
Complementary Interchange | Interaction based on accepted differences of power. |
One-up Communication | A conversational move to gain control of the exchange; attempted domination. |
One-down Communication | A conversational move to yield control of the exchange; attempted submission. |
One-across Communication | A conversational move to neutralize or level control within the exchange; when just one party uses it, the interchange is labeled transitory. |
Enabler | Within addiction culture, a person whose nonassertive behavior allows others to continue in their substance abuse. |
Double Bind | A person trapped under mutually exclusive expectations; specifically the powerful party in a complementary relationship insists that the low-power party act as if it were symmetrical. |
Reframing | The process of instituting change by stepping outside of a situation and reinterpreting what it means. |
Addiction Model | Assumes alcoholism and other addictions are diseases to be cured rather than character disorders to be condemned. |
Whole-message Model | Regards verbal and nonverbal components of a message as completely integrated and often interchangeable. |
Equifinality | A systems-theory assumption that a given outcome could have occurred due to any or many interconnected factors rather than being a result in a cause-effect relationship. |