communication theory within interpersonal communication

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social sciences

school essay

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04/11/2007

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Hikrokawa and Gouran were two experts on group communication. They figured out the most effective ways that groups communicate and the most practical solutions to everyday group communication, whether in a business environment or a personal relationship. At its core, Functional Perspective on Group Decision Making shows off the “wisdom of joint interaction” (Griffin, 250). Working together as a whole can make any group stronger.

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Introduction
About the Functional Group Perspective (History)
Four essential group functions
Types of Communication
A flaw?
Introduction to the Social Penetration Theory
Theoretical propositions
The ‘Buried Self?
Stages of relational development
Good or bad theory?

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journalism

school essay

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17/12/2007

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Communication competence is the concept or framework that defines communication as we know it. It covers the all of the bases of communication, from talking to a person individually, to specific cases where logistics and demographics come into play. In order to be able to communicate over a large contextual area, such as group, interpersonal, public, mass media or intrapersonal, a person must have at least a standing knowledge of communication competence. Drawing back to the time of Plato and Aristotle, we can find instances where communication competence has drawn its rots.
These are the ten principles of communication competence that are most intertwined in our society today. These principles, if used singularly, are incredibly useful but when used together extremely potent.

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psychology

term papers

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11/12/2007

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Communication is an omnipresent concept that traverses all aspects of an individual's life. However, when asked exactly what communication encompasses or how to define it, even communication scholars are left perplexed or overwhelmed at the varying degrees of answers that will undoubtedly be given to depict what communication actually is. Why is this? Communication appears in our world in a plethora of avenues and in countless ways due to varying degrees of association. Therefore, with innumerable ways of analyzing and discussing communication, a tangible model or theory of communication needed to be developed in order to better communicate about communication not only as a field but also a human construct. Robert T. Craig recognized the need to develop a metamodel in able to formulate more identifiable and valid communication theories within the field of communication studies. Craig posits in his article Communication Theory as a Field, "communication theory [is] a dialogical-dialectical field according to two principles: the constitutive model of communication as a metamodel and theory as a metadiscursive practice" (Craig, 1999). Craig is hypothesizing that communication theory should operate within an analytical space of logical argumentation, its dialectical nature, formulated through dialogue.

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psychology

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The vast majority of mental processes are outside of conscious awareness. These processes can impact thinking, feeling, and behavior despite the lack of conscious awareness. Consciousness can be thought to include two elements: awareness and sentience, the quality of the experience. Each form of consciousness has intrigued philosophers and scientists for many years and various theories have been proposed to explain these phenomena. Little is known about the basic mechanisms that underlie the sentient experience of consciousness. Phenomenal awareness has been the focus of active research and has yielded some basic ideas about the role of consciousness in cognition. One essential issue is that the effective processing of mental representations does not require conscious awareness. However, the intentional, strategic alteration in patterns of processing may necessitate the involvement of consciousness in order to achieve a new outcome. Thus, consciousness is not required for most processes, but its involvement allows for a qualitatively different result in representational transformations. One example of this is in memory processing in which explicit memory requires focal, conscious attention or awareness in order to encode events into explicit form. Such representations are later available for conscious retrieval when they can be examined and transformed for intentional purposes, such as the recollection of facts or autobiographical knowledge.

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Based on a biological assessment of brain function, Gerald Edelman's theory describes two forms of consciousness that derive from the resonant interactions between groups of neurons.
Misidentification syndromes are other examples of subjective, conscious experience disturbances.
Many psychiatric disturbances may thus involve alterations in the experience of conscious awareness and sentience.
Mental models are unconscious, highly organized structural processes that are derived from past experiences, that aid in interpreting present stimuli, and that influence the direction of future behavior.
Thought, Language, and Cognition There is no universally accepted definition of thought.
Psycholinguistics is a complex domain that focuses on the cognitive process of language formation and semantic analysis.
Jerome Bruner has described the distinction between the earlier mode of thought, called narrative cognition, versus the later mode, which is the scientific, logical, paradigmatic mode.
Discourse and Narrative Discourse is communication from one person to another; it is thought to involve a sense of intention or plan.
Cognitive Development Developmental theories and research can be divided into several views.
Psychiatric disturbances may be conceptualized as disturbances in self-organizational processes.

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management

research papers

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01/03/2008

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Theory holds that working together brings better results than working alone. Team structures often account for organizational success in the contemporary corporate environment. Modern organizations favor team structures and teamwork viewing them as key elements for organizational success.
This paper identifies and explains the basic attributes of a team structure (common vision and mission, defined roles or functions, complementary skills, equal effort, synergy and equal responsibility), which along with the advanced attributes (team leadership, mutual performance monitoring, backup behavior, adaptability and team orientation) facilitate team effectiveness. The paper analyzes also the cognitive aspects involved in team structures identifying interpersonal conflict, open conflict, team diversity, and trust as the cognitive barriers that the organization should overcome in order to avoid as ineffective teamwork and/or failure of a team structure.
Keywords: effective teamwork, synergy, interpersonal conflict, adaptability, trust

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ecology & environment

case study

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28/04/2008

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In the late days of August 2005, forecasters and meteorologists closely watched a storm soon to be named Katrina brewing in the Gulf of Mexico. Like many other infamous hurricanes of similar magnitude, the tropical storm began rather quietly and only caused initial high winds and some tangential storms off the Florida coast. But after coming ashore in Florida on August 27, the National Weather Service advised that the Gulf coast along Louisiana and Mississippi should prepare for the worst, fearing that the storm, after returning to the Gulf, would again pick up speed and head for more vulnerable areas (Knabb 2). They were right. Mere days later, a storm surge ravaged the coast of Mississippi and Louisiana unlike any in recent history. New Orleans, protected from the Gulf by doomed-to-fail levees in many lower income parts of the historic city, was violently attacked by gusting winds and heavy rain, and areas near the levees were completely destroyed by the hurricane’s floodwaters when the weak barricades collapsed. Wiping out entire neighborhoods and city boroughs, Katrina’s wrath left New Orleans under several feet of water and made damage incalculable for days and weeks after the terror had begun. Countless city residents were left homeless and without temporary shelter less despite the mandatory and volunteer evacuation efforts that had begun before the storm came ashore. Disease spread through the area as mold and rodents soon took to the damp environment (Cooper 54). Further exploiting the tragedy, scenes of helpless people clinging to trees and living on their rooftops for days became regular B-roll footage for cable news stations, as did disturbing reports and imagery of accumulating dead bodies floating through the flooded city (Roig-Franzia).

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Named one of the worst natural disasters in United States history.
Gulf coast was in the midst of hurricane season, in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina's landfall in New Orleans.
The ability to act fast was primarily based upon the government's understanding of the severity of the situation.
The problems at FEMA could not have been more basic or avoidable.
It was not until the fifth day after Katrina's devastation that President Bush finally began to deploy troops to the Gulf Coast.
During a televised fundraiser for the Gulf Coast, rapper Kanye West publicly made a statement that the President didn't care about Black people
The overabundance of refugees remaining in the city left organizations in a state of bewildered panic as the storm approached.
Much of the devastation left in its wake can still be seen in New Orleans today.
The incredible destruction left in the wake of Katrina was instead exacerbated by government failures to send substantial relief.

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psychology

research papers

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13/11/2007

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The fields relevant to this overview are a part of the interdisciplinary studies of cognitive science, which includes anthropology, cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, psycholinguistics, artificial intelligence and computational science, and neuroscience. Each of these disciplines provides an important and unique perspective on how to understand the human psyche. Biological, psychodynamic, and social psychiatry can find a common home and language within cognitive science. The common divisions of nature versus nurture and biology versus psychology disappear when the origins of mental processes are examined.

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The last ten years of the twentieth century, called the 'Decade of the Brain,' led to discoveries in the neurosciences that revealed a wide range of findings relevant to psychiatry.
A generally accepted view of the mind is that it emanates from a portion of the activity of the brain.
The neural net profile is the fundamental way in which mental processes are created.
Information is contained within the brain by a process of representation.
A third level of viewing information processing in the mind (C) is the conceptualization of forms of sensation, perception, attention, and memory.
Early conceptualizations of attention were based on Donald Broadbent's idea of a filter that selects a limited amount of incoming stimuli to be further processed.
Selective Attention One aspect of attention is that it focuses a metaphorical spotlight on external stimuli or internal mental representations.
Optimal performance is attained with moderate levels of arousal that allow for the establishment of task goals and feedback from the performance of the task, leading to appropriate resource allocation.
Forms of representations include sensory and perceptual ones that derive from input from the external world via the peripheral sensory nervous system.
The neural networks of the brain are capable of responding to experience by the activation of particular patterns of distributed activation.

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business strategy

research papers

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03/10/2007

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Knowledge economy integrates effectively knowledge aiming to enhance organizational performance, competitiveness, and corporate social responsibility. Being a source of innovation and creativity, it attains organizational competence through the proficient and continual exchange of knowledge, it produces agile organizations and it contributes to socio-economic growth. Additionally, it enables countries to realize better results with a finer exploitation of the readily available resources they possess towards the improvement of living standards in terms of health, affluence and future progress. Furthermore, it facilitates the discovery of new opportunities for organizations and the formation of entrepreneurship-oriented societies.
Effective integration of knowledge necessitates the leverage of the major challenge of globalization. Rapid technological changes and information concentration call for heavy investment in information technology. Gathering, processing and evaluating information in the first instance, and converting it into knowledge in the second instance is a strategic goal for organizations. By bringing down interdepartmental barriers and facilitating company-wide availability and distribution of information, knowledge is disseminated within the organization.

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Introduction
1. Effective integration of knowledge necessitates the leverage of the major challenge of globalization
A Contextual Approach to Knowledge Economy
Cultural / Structural Dimensions of Knowledge Economy
Where Does Emotional Intelligence Fit in Knowledge Economy?
Emotional Intelligence and Organizational Knowledge
Emotional Intelligence and Organizational Performance
Emotional Intelligence and Leadership
Conclusion

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management

presentation

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14/12/2006

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