Chapter - 11 : Members and Leaders

In a group, there are different roles specifically  for each person in order to achieve the goals.

12 specific group task roles :

1. Initiator-contributor
2. Information seeker
3. Opinion seeker
4. Information giver
5. Opinion giver
6. Elaborator
7. Coordinator
8. Orienter
9. Evaluator-Critic
10. Inergizer
11. Procedural technician
12. Recorder

Chapter-10 : Small Group Communication

Small group communication is the communication between two or more persons. 

The characteristics of small group involves:

1. Collection of individuals - usually consists of 2-12 persons
2. Common Purpose - having similar goals and objectives
3. Interdependence - being controlled by one person's behaviour
4. Organization of rules - having structure and rules within the group members
5. Self-perception as a group - feeling and behaving as a part of  group

Team is almost the same as small group but it needs more cooperation and qualities such as: 

1. Specific Purpose - set the certain goals and objectives
2. Clearly defined roles - each member has different tasks to do
3. Goal directed - work together for the same goal and achieve together.
4. Content focused - generally more focused content focused 

Chapter- 9 : Friends, Lovers and Families

In this chapter, we learnt about the interpersonal communication relationships between friends, families and lovers.

Friendship - is the relationship between friends. Me and my friend,  you and your friend; that is more than 1 person and so it is Interpersonal communication. It is based on trust, emotional support and sharing interest of each person.

Chapter-8 : Interpersonal Relationship Stages and Theories

Relationship stages consists of :

• Contact - perceptual (human senses : sight, smell, taste, hear and touch)  and interactional contact take place. 
• Involvement - testing (asking about other's interests, favourite things and colours and so on) and intensifying (the amount of time committed to others) stages take place.
                     - bond and engagements are become tighter. 
• Intimacy - interpersonal commitment and social bond  takes place
                 - become more familiar each others and closed to him/her
• Deterioration - the relationship become weaker in this stage.
• Repair - try to fix the problem or to maintain the interpersonal and intraperonal communication.
• Dissolution - the bond and relationship are broken in this stage. It cannot be fixed anymore. 

Chapter - 7: Interpersonal Conversation

Interpersonal communication is that one we already know which is a communication consists of more than 1 person, not talking to ourselves.

Conversation - essence of interpersonal communication
As  listening chapter does make me surprised, this conversation one also does because Conversation has the process.  I don't know the others  but I do surprised as I haven't noticed.

Based on our lecture,  there are 5 steps in Conversation Process.

1. Opening
2. Feedforward
3. Business
4. Feedback 
5. Closing

After process of conversation,  we moved to the Principles of conversation. There are 4 principles of Conversation. 

1. The Principle of Turn-Taking
2. The Principle of Dialogue
3. The Principle of Immediacy
4. The Principle of Flexibility.

Chapter - 6: Non-verbal Communication (Part-B)

CONTINUED ...

Channel of Non-verbal Communication

4). Spatial messages - we can define the relationship based on the spaces or  the distance between the two persons or more.
In spatial messages, there is proxemic distance or spatial distance and territoriality.

Types of Proxemic distance 

Types of Territoriality 

Chapter-6: Non-verbal Communication (Part-A)

What is Non-Verbal Communication? 

• It is one form of communication which is without words. We communicate with others by using gesture, and our body without saying nothing. 

There are two major benefits of non-verbal communication. The first one is as your ability of non-verbal communication, you will be more attractive, popular and better psychological well-being. And the next one is you can influence the others by your great skills of Non-verbal communication.

Further more, there are another 2 sub-topics in this chapter. These  are 

• Functions of Non-verbal Communication  and
• Channel of Non-verbal Communication.  

These two sub-topics can make us a bit confused especially in the exam, the lecturer said.

Chapter-5: Disconfirmaiton & Confirmation

Disconfirmation and confrimation are of course, happening between 2 or more people.
How does it happen?

Disconfirmation - In this communication, we do not understand or do not try to understand the others situations, feelings and messages. We refuse or ignore.

Confirmation - is the opposite of disconfirmation. In this communication, we do understand the others messages and presence. We acknowledge.

Chapter-5: Verbal Messages

• 10/6/2014 ---->> No lecture! !   But..........  we continued our group presentation. 

So, we just started our class with the presentation for the third principle of Verbal message.

Verbal Messages << Chapter-5 >>

Verbal message is one of  the types of message. Then, we need to know what is message, first.

Message -- interaction among people by using verbal and non-verbal languages.

The Self ~~ Chapter-4

On 27th May, we learnt about "The Self".

After the lecturer has opened the first slide, we were asked what is the self.  The class was so noisy as we answered our own answers all together at the same time.  So, he said, "Shuu........., students!  students!"  

We all were silence  and we continued our lecture "The Self". "The Self", here means, the discussion and context of the individual and it also can be deemed as the way in which communication and interpretation of messages takes place within the individual. As simple, it is happening within individual such as talking, questioning, thinking to itself.

Chapter -3: ~~~ Listening ~~~

What is listening? ? and   What is hearing? ?                                                                            

When I heard those question, I was a little bit confused. I asked myself what is hearing again and again. It took me a bit longer. And the lecturer gave us answer.
Hearing is just receiving sound. For hearing, we don't need to pay attention or focus. Our ears just receive the vibration.
However, listening is the specialized process, a type of perception, by which we receive auditory signals. Moreover, Emmert (1994)  said " listening is the process of receiving, constructing meaning from and responding to spoken and/or non-verbal messages".  It can assist us to learn, play, influence and help.

Before I started learning this chapter, I just thought listening is just we listen what the others say. Actually listening has it's own stages. "There are 5 stages in the listening process."  That sentence took my attention. As I'm also one of the human living, I do listening in my daily life. I listened to my parents, lecturers, friends and so on. But, I didn't notice it's stages. So,  one question popped up in my mind. "What are the stages of listening process?"

Perception

Firstly, we need to know what is Perception. It is the impression that others give you and what you project to others. Perception is very subjective and one's perception cannot be the same with other's. Even they do have same perception, it is still differ in some things.

So, what do we need for the Perception Process?

As the first stage, Sensory Stimulation has to occur. We need to occur one of 5 senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell). Then those Sensory Stimulaion is organised in the second stage. There is two principle for this stage. Finding the Pole star in the sky popped up in my head as a example for Proximity principle. it is very easy to find Polaris if we see the Big dipper. We know that a group of 7 stars that doesn't change while the others do as the Big dipper.

Polaris and Big Dipper

Foundation of Human Communication

Under this chapter-1,  we have 5 main subtopics.

1. Communication 
2. Area of Human Communication 
3. Culture and Human Communication
4. Component of Human Communication
5. Purpose of Human Communication

After I had learnt subtopic-1, I noticed myself that I'm not good in communication as it is an ability to communicate well.

2nd day of my 3rd semester

. Luckily, I have same lecturer for Positive Psychology and Human Communication. Today is the first day for those subjects. So, we just took note the dates for our mid-term exam, and quiz in the class and also we have video presentation, this is really different from last last semester and this one, blog!
This is my first time using blog.
Nevertheless, this subject, "Human Communication" looks like difficult and it is not easy to pass the exam without understanding the lecture and knowing what the lecturer said in class. So, we are asked for paying attention in the class and for the lecture and not to talk in the class especially if we sit at the BACK.