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An active acknowledgment includes asking questions, paraphrasing, and reflecting on what the person has said. Reflecting on a person’s thoughts or feelings can be a great way to support others who are having problems. “Endorsement” is the acknowledgement of having interest in other ideas it also means you agreeing with them or that you find them important. Endorsement is also one of the strongest types of confirming communication, and endorsement is also agreeing with someone. This doesn’t mean completely agreeing with them to endorse the message their trying to give off. Disconfirming communication is to describe a lack of regard. For example, “I don’t care about you” is a form of a lack of value. There is seven type of disconfirming messages which are ‘Impervious, Interrupting, Irrelevant, Tangential, Impersonal, Ambiguous, Incongruous response. Impervious responses” is when you don’t acknowledge your partners message. It can either be accidental or intentional sometimes getting no reaction to a person who’s attempting to communicate can bring more discomfort in a relationship. Being ignored can be disconfirming then being dismissed or being attacked. “Interrupting …show more content…
Most likely when we get defensive we will resist the sender message they are trying to give to us. When coming face to face with a face threatening act we are most likely trying to protect our presenting and faces. A times most of us become extremely defensive when we make mistake and start acting extremely selfishly. When we are becoming defensive we start getting the feeling that someone is threating us, and we become extremely over protective of ourselves. Competent communicators protect others faces as well as their own. For example, a teacher will try to support their students faces when being offered constructive