Interpersonal Comm Chapter 12

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family

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self-defined unit made up of any number of persons who live or have lived in a relationship with one another over time in a common living space and who are usually but not always united by marriage and kinship

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natural family

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mother father and their biological children

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blended family

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two adults and their children. beause of divorce, separation, death or adoption the children may be the offspring of other parents or of just one of the adults who is raising them.

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single-parent family

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one parent raising one or more children

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extended family

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relative such as aunts uncles cousins or grandparents and /or unrelated persons whoa re part of a family unit.

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family of origin

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family in which a person is raised

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circumplex model of family interaction

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model of the relationships among family adaptability cohesion and communication.

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adaptability

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family's ability to modify and respond to change in the family's power structure and roles

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cohesion

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emotional bonding and feelings of togetherness that families experience

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talk about relations, listen and clarify messages, support, manage conflict effectively

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how to improve family relations?

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computer mediated communication (CMC)

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communication between and among people through the medium of computer (person's writing qualities affect relationship that is developed)
-note the importance of the written word and response time
-easier to decieve

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social or psychological co-presence

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state of mind that occurs during computer-meditated interactions or text messaging, in which partners think and act as though they were fact to face.

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synchronous interaction

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interaction in which participants are actively engaging at the same time
(texting, instant messaging_

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asynchronous

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interaction in which participants send and receive messages from each other with delays between reception and response (email)

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hyperpersonal relationships

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relationships formed primarily through CMC that become more personal than equivalent FtF relationship

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quid pro quo

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latin phrase that can be used to describe a type of sexual harassment. the phrase roughly means "you do something for me and i'll do something for you"

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upward communication

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communication that flows form subordinates to superious

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downward communication

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flows from superiors to subordinates

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hostile environment

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type of sexual harassment in which an employee's rights are threatened through offensive working conditions or behavior on the part of other workers.

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horizontal communication

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communication among colleague or co-workers at the same level within an organization

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outward communication

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communication that flows to those outside an organization. (costumers)