Ashley BeachOctober 11, 2016Comm 322Exam 2

1. Before I begin I would just like to make clear, I have said, “the bee’s knees” and also “tootle-loo”. I will also say them again. Now that that’s out of the way.

Words become out of date or obsolete, they may however, be revived (Thank Jesus, Amen), verbal symbols will change, and we create new words. Our vocabulary tends to mirror “our times” or our culture even.

2. No, sexists and racist language is not a “thing” of the past, but they have evolved a lot from where they used to be (More racist, than sexist). In order for this to change and become a thing of the past people must make a conscious decision to make it change, by monitoring not only their words in public but also in private. People aren’t born knowing language they are taught, if people don’t hear or read these pieces of language, they will not learn it.

3. The categories of personal space and issues tied to territoriality are related to comfortably and relationships. These boundaries are different for different relationships as well and depending on how much you like someone is the determining factor of how much if any of your personal space you’ re willing to share with them. If you’re at a restaurant eating lunch and your best friend walks in and sits at “your” table you’re not likely to become uncomfortable or turn them away, but if someone sits down that you don’t know, or dislike sits down, you’re likely to become uncomfortable and turn down their company, possibly by moving or asking them to move.

4. Facial expressions are ultimately going to be my favorite in this, because we talked about emoji’s in class. These emoji’s have brought together not only our nations, but even our cultures, because these emotions or emoji’s are universal. I’m going to say personal space has actually somewhat torn our nation apart in a sense. We put up privacy fences around our homes to keep people out, or to make the unknown uncomfortable about knocking on our doors. I don’t know how I feel about this. I always imagined having a privacy fence, but thinking about it, we already have so many things keeping us apart, do we really need it? Touch is something that has the power to pull people together, or tare them apart. I am comfortable touching my husband or my best friend, this however, if one of them was to violate my trust with a type of violent touch, it would ruin the relationship I think that’s how cultures may decide what touch is acceptable and what touch is not.

5. I really couldn’t find a black or white answer on this, I’m sure it’s there and I’m simply overlooking it, but based on the material that I’ve read, I would have to say that the most common step that gets overlooked or skipped in the listening process is probably response. I say this because I don’t know a person that isn’t guilty of being told or asked something and giving a simple, “yeah, totally” without really understanding what they are agreeing with or vice versa. This could be because of a variety of factors: background noise, message overload, or maybe even message complexity. The step that is most likely to receive the majority of attention I think would be rating. I say this because rating has more to do with personal opinions, and I don’t know any two people whom have the same opinion on everything.

Ashley BeachOctober 11, 2016Comm 322Exam 2

As human we tend to take our opinions very seriously because we are all at least a little narcissistic, and we not only want our opinions but we want them to be viewed as the “right” opinion.

6. In any of these situations you can have a multitude of barriers: noise (physical, semantic, or psychological), you may also have message overload, message complexity, or what I think may be the most common (at least for me) preoccupation. All situations are unique unto themselves because no two situations will be the same, and there is so much involved including such things as personal issues that may be occurring in life, or even emotional reactions such as liking your boss or instructor and vice versa.

7. Time Centered and action centered are the ones that I see would be most effective in a professional educational atmosphere.

I really just don’t understand what you want me to do here, Becky. I’m sorry. I understand that the different listening styles will filter different types of information from messages, but ultimate I see the process itself staying the same. It’s like when you say, “Test 2 is due Wednesday. I have it posted online in canvas.” I’m usually more of a times centered listener, so I filter out everything except “Test 2 is due Wednesday.” I know where to find it, so unless you don’t post online somewhere, I have all the information I need. Whereas, when I’m at home and my kids are trying to kill each other I’m more of an action centered listener. I want the details. I want to know who hit who first? Why does Lucas have huge bite marks on both cheeks?

8. I believe message senders count on using tone of voice as well as gestures to get to communicate emotions to their listeners because they are very effective and helpful to “get an emotion” across. However, I think that they rely on facial expressions and body language to read the audience and know if they understand and enjoy the topic. Misunderstanding I believe is the biggest challenge that senders and receivers need to overcome in order to have a good communication line.

9. Really the biggest thing that I can think of is that it’s become acceptable to gay couples to express their emotions publicly.

I think it’s funny when people try to use reproduction as a reason why gay people shouldn’t get married or why they just shouldn’t be gay. I think this because I just want to be like, “So we have these things now called sperm banks, invitro fertilization, and adoption. I don’t really think that gays getting married are going to be the end of humanity.”

10. The skills necessary to help an individual develop emotional intelligence are: recognizing and identifying your emotions, analyzing your emotions or feelings and figuring out how you want to steer them in the situation, accepting your feelings and not being ashamed of them and hiding them, reframe your feelings by putting a positive spin on it, and be able to empathize with others feelings. These things are important because if we can learn to do them we can control our feelings in a sense, and make better communicational choices.