The Other Person

The context should be different from a young teenager to an elderly person. Social context refers to the relationship with the other person. The context would be different with an employee compared to a family member. Or a student compared to the teacher. It is always crucially important to understand the social context when these come in hand. Psychological context…

men have different forms of acting, thinking, and even communicating. Due to the differences in their behavior men and women usually do or say things that disappoints their partner. In occasions a simple misinterpretation of a response can make a person feel bad. Could it be that men and women express their words differently? Or does the communication style make men and women to decode the response differently? In what follows we will discuss the different ideas of the different communication…

metamessage as a “meaning that is not said” (Tannen D., 2001, p. 7). In other words, metamessages are the tones that one uses, the phrases and languages one uses, and the implication of the words. Metamessages are the actual meanings behind what someone says. Tannen focuses on family relationships in this chapter. She mentions that family members tend to criticize…

forgetting to pick up milk at the store on your way home from work, or not making time to help out around the house. At first these things are easy to dismiss, but as time goes on, overlooking the little things gets harder, when it is always the same person picking up the slack. Their feelings will often be hurt, they may feel like their partner doesn’t listen or care enough about them to take the time to remember. Gary Chapman (2010), author of The 5 Love Languages says “Putting away shoes,…

textbook describes self-disclosure, which is closely related to vulnerability, as “the intentional revelation of personal information about ourselves that others are unlikely to discover in other ways.” This means that, in order to make yourself completely emotionally vulnerable, we need to explicitly disclose information about ourselves that the person we are having a conversation with would have a hard time finding out otherwise. Like all forms of communication, self-disclosure is a process…

the objective story of what was going on. They realized that the other person was the way that they were for a reason. It made it easier to accept one another when they learned that watching patterns of behavior, communication, and relationships of their parents had an enormous impact on how they interacted with each other (Observational learning). This realization helped them both see that it was circumstances that made the other act the way that they do, rather than who they are at their core…

would think less of me. Your counsellor needs this kind of information to get headed in the right direction. They will not judge you. Alternately people hide the truth so the therapist doesn’t think less of another person, like a spouse or parent. The very act of protecting another person and…

People experience many different kinds of emotions, and in order for people to clearly recognize how other people are feeling, they must ask questions in order to completely understand the situation without causing a large amount of tension. When conflict occurs between two people, one must be careful to not cause additional tension between the two parties. One of the most effective ways to accomplish this is through perception checks. The purpose of a perception check is to clarify nonverbal…

When I think back on all of my past teachers and professors, the ones I enjoyed the most and learned the most from, were the ones that looked like they were having the most fun. No one wants to sit and listen to a lecture for 20+ minutes if the person talking is simply reading from notes with no enthusiasm. We want to learn from someone that is alive. We all know teachers that look miserable teaching and their students can feel it. In sports it is often said that a team takes on the…

might be difficult to work with and how to deal with uncomfortable situations in a professional manner. Dr. Wolfe noted in the beginning that based on the research that she and other GCC staff have conducted, women and minorities in general tend to face problems especially in scenarios where another group member dominates the other group members and the group project in general. The workshop was interactive, so we were presented with different scenarios that we may face in our careers and asked…