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Relationships And Communities Session Nineteen

COMMUNICATION STUDIES REUNION 2002

• Saturday, November 2
• 2:00pm - Communication Studies Alumni Panel Presentation

Hewitt Union, Room 232-233

• 6:00-7:00pm - Cocktail Reception (Cash Bar)

Forum Restaurant, Hewitt Union

• 7:00pm - Buffet Dinner with featured speaker Lou Borrelli '77. Student Price $10.
• http://oswegoalumni.oswego.edu/commdinner/default.html

1. A number of perceptual biases affect how we arrive at causal attributions. Explain two of these biases. How does bias show up in groups and cultures? Relate attribution to thse biases.
2. Describe the "I-It", "I-You", and "I-Thou" modes of interaction. How do the four things we do whenever we communicate differ for these modes of inteaction?
3. There are 4 listening skills we went over in class. Relate these skills to the elements of emotional communication competence.
4. Yankelovich says there are 3 features that differentiate dialog from discussion. How does bringing assumptions into the open differ in dialog from discussion?
5. What does a so-called "stupid" question reveal?
6. What kinds of problems are you likely to encounter in trying to tell an alien that "I need to go to the bathroom."

Proposed questions go here:

1. Give or list three features that form a dialogue.
2. How do poor conversationalists evoke emotions?
3. What are the 5 characteristics of personal communication?

Third questions:

1. Expain how you communicate each day?
2. name some ways you can self disclose nonverbally.