CHAPTER 9: REVIEW

CHAPTER9REVIEW

CHAPTER RECAP

  • Interpersonal communication is dyadic and is your primary tool for building, maintaining, and ending relationships.
  • The four defining characteristics of interpersonal communication are that it is transactional, dynamic, relational, and impactful.
  • Scholars suggest that five factors influence how people form interpersonal relationships: proximity, resources, similarity, reciprocal liking, and physical attractiveness.
  • Though each type is unique, people build and maintain their relationships—romantic, family, friends, and workplace—through interpersonal communication.
  • Many relationships progress through certain stages, marked by differences in communication and intimacy. These turning points can be positive—initiating, experimenting, intensifying, integrating, and bonding—or negative—differentiating, circumscribing, stagnating, avoiding, and terminating.

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KEY TERMS

Interpersonal communication, p. 212

Dyadic, p. 212

I-Thou, p. 214

I-It, p. 214

Impersonal communication, p. 215

Interpersonal relationships, p. 216

Mere exposure effect, p. 216

Resources, p. 216

Social exchange theory, p. 216

Birds-of-a-feather effect, p. 217

Reciprocal liking, p. 218

Beautiful-is-good effect, p. 218

Romantic relationships, p. 219

Liking, p. 220

Loving, p. 220

Passionate love, p. 221

Companionate love, p. 221

Family, p. 221

Friendships, p. 223

Workplace relationships, p. 224

Initiating, p. 227

Experimenting, p. 228

Intensifying, p. 228

Integrating, p. 228

Bonding, p. 229

Differentiating, p. 229

Circumscribing, p. 232

Stagnating, p. 232

Avoiding, p. 233

Terminating, p. 233

ACTIVITIES

Interpersonal vs. Impersonal

Working with a partner, come up with your own definition of interpersonal communication based on how you use it daily. Include what distinguishes it from impersonal communication. Then, discuss how mediated forms of communication such as Twitter, e-mails, and texts can be interpersonal and when they can be impersonal. What makes the difference? Does the number of people impact whether an encounter is interpersonal? How? Come up with examples for each, and discuss how the technology can influence whether the communication is interpersonal or impersonal.

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Working with a partner, come up with your own definition of interpersonal communication based on how you use it daily. Include what distinguishes it from impersonal communication. Then, discuss how mediated forms of communication such as Twitter, e-mails, and texts can be interpersonal and when they can be impersonal. What makes the difference? Does the number of people impact whether an encounter is interpersonal? How? Come up with examples for each, and discuss how the technology can influence whether the communication is interpersonal or impersonal.

Love, Hollywood Style

Identify three of the most romantic movies you’ve seen (e.g., The Notebook, Love and Basketball, Love Actually, Brokeback Mountain). For each, assess how passionate love and companionate love are depicted. Is passionate love depicted as superior to companionate love? How do the movies deal with love over time? How do these depictions contrast with your own views of passionate and companionate love? What factors of loving and liking are shown, and which are ignored? What effect does this have on showing “real” romantic relationships in the movies?

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Identify three of the most romantic movies you’ve seen (e.g., The Notebook, Love and Basketball, Love Actually, Brokeback Mountain). For each, assess how passionate love and companionate love are depicted. Is passionate love depicted as superior to companionate love? How do the movies deal with love over time? How do these depictions contrast with your own views of passionate and companionate love? What factors of loving and liking are shown, and which are ignored? What effect does this have on showing “real” romantic relationships in the movies?