COM 206 - Power Point

    Chapter 1: Interpersonal Communication

    • Understand interpersonal communication.

    Chapter 2: The Impact of Self Concept

    • Understand everything we think and feel about oursleves makes up our self concept.

    Chapter 3: Perception

    • Process we use to make sense of our experiences.

    Chapter 4: Listening

    • Process of receiving, attending to, and assaigning meaning to aural and visual stimuli.

    Chapter 5: Language

    • Code or system of arbitrary symbols shared by a group to communicate.

    Chapter 6: Nonverbal Communication

    • Actions or attributes of human, including their use of objects or sounds, time and space, that have socially shared significance and stimulate meaning in others.

    Chapter 9: Trust

    • Examines relationships as an exchange of commodities.

    Chapter 10: Power and Influence

    • The potential to influence others.

    Chapter 11: Conflict

    • A struggle between interdependent parties that occurs whenever one individual's thought or actions are perceived to limit or interfere with those of another individual.

    Chapter 12: Relationship Dynamics

    • Wide array of social connections that to varying degrees meet our interpersonal needs.

    Chapter 13: Intamacy and Distance

    • Willingly making known to others information about yourself.