The Assumption of Consistency - Answer -"But that's not what you said yesterday."
The Assumption of Simple Meaning - Answer -"Well, you said it so you must have
meant it." Relying too heavily on words alone.
The Assumption of Communicator Independence - Answer -"It wasn't my fault." We talk
about our relationships with people as if we had no relation or connection to them - as if
our behavior had nothing to do with what our partner said or did.
The Assumption of Obvious Causation - Answer -"You can't fool me. I know why you
said that." People's intentions in conversations are not always obvious.
The Assumption of Finality - Answer -"That settles it." The assumption that if something
is finished, it no longer requires the same effort, attention, and concern.
Narrow - Broad - Answer -Variety of topics explored; "breadth" of interaction. Range of
topics you discuss and how much information you reveal about those topics.
Public - Personal - Answer -"Depth" of social interaction. Revealing private selves as
the relationship progresses.
Stylized - Unique - Answer -When we have a close relationship with someone, we begin
to interact with that person in unique ways. Suggests the adoption of a more
idiosyncratic communication system adapted to the peculiar nature of the interacting
parties.
Difficult - Efficient - Answer -Less energy is needed to communicate meanings. As
relationship grows, there will be increased accuracy, speed, and efficiency in our
communication.
Rigid - Flexible - Answer -Refers to the number of different ways any given idea or
feeling can be communicated.
Awkward - Smooth - Answer -As knowledge of the other person increases, predictability
also increases, which leads to greater synchronization of interaction.
, Meshing - Answer -Each participant is well aware of mutual roles and plays them out in
a smooth, complementary fashion.
Hesitant - Spontaneous - Answer -In close relationships, we find a sort of
communicative spontaneity - an informality, an ease of opening up oneself, a comfort in
entering areas of the other person, a relationship that flows and changes direction
easily.
Overt Judgement Suspended - Overt Judgement Given - Answer -Although our first
impressions of another person probably involve a number of covert judgments, these
evaluations are usually unspoken until the relationship reaches a more advanced stage.
Empathic Accuracy - Answer -Ability to accurately infer the specific content of a
partner's thoughts and feelings.
Initiating - Answer -All those processes enacted when we first come together with other
people. Communicators at this stage are simply trying to display themselves as a
person who is pleasant, likable, understanding, and socially adept.
Experimenting - Answer -The exchange of demographic information is frequent and
often expected to be reciprocated. Strangers are searching for an integrating topic, an
area of common interest or experience.
Cultural Information - Answer -Assume that since you share a culture, they may have
information about certain cultural happenings.
Sociological Information - Answer -The knowledge of a person's reference and
membership groups.
Psychological Information - Answer -'Recognizes the individual differences associated
with one's conversational partner.
Intensifying - Answer -Each person is unfolding his or her uniqueness while
simultaneously blending his or her personality with the other's.
Integrating - Answer -Two individual personalities fuse and develop a kind of
interdependence.
Coupling - Answer -Involves giving another person your self-symbols and/or bringing
the other's self-symbols into alignment with your own.
Bonding - Answer -A public ritual that announces to the world that commitments have
been formally contracted. A way of gaining social or institutional support for the
relationship.
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