Interpersonal Communication

Definition

= The process of sending and receiving messages between two people or among a small group of people with a variety of effects and feedback (feedback)

Component

Description:

a. Sender - Receiver

-Inter-personal process can not happen to yourself

-Interpersonal communication-related human

-Interpersonal-communication occurs in 2 person / small group of people

b. Encoding-Decoding

-Actions generate messages and interpret messages

c. Messages

-Form of verbal, non verbal or a both combination.

d. Channel

-Face-to-face (usually) or media liaison

e. Disorders (Noise)

-Physical disturbance: interruption, distance

-Psychological Disorders: Emotion, difference in values, attitude, status

-Semantics-Impaired: Double Meaning of Words, Symbols

f. Feedback

-Positive

-Neutral

-Negative

g. Context

-Physical-Dimensions: Where is the communication

-Social-psychological dimension; Status Relations

-Temporal Dimensions: Special Messages

h. Field Experience (Field of experience)

i. Result

-Negative

-Positive

Development Process

= Communication is a process that evolved from the impersonal to interpersonal

Impersonal Interpersonal

• general • special

• socio-cultural factor • psychological

• norms • own rules

• Prediction behavior • Prediction explanation

Process Relationships

= Involve The relationship between 2 people who interact

The purpose of Inter-Personal Communication

-Identify yourself and others

-Knowing the outside world

-Creating and maintaining a meaningful relationship

-Changing the attitudes and behavior

-Playing and seek entertainment

-Helping

Effectiveness Characteristics Interpersonal Communication

• Humanistic Perspective, including:

-Openness

-Supportive Behavior

Positive-Behavior

-Empathy

-Similarity

• Pragmatic Perspective, including:

-Be sure

-Togetherness

-Interaction Management

-Expressive Behavior

-Orientation to others

Interpersonal Communication As a Transactional Process

• Interpersonal Communication as a process

-The series of actions, incidents and events that occur continuously

• The components are interdependent in Interpersonal Communication (interdependence).

-Each component has a connection, either with another component or components as a whole. Characteristics: not to be repeated (unrepeatability)

• The actors act and react

Principle:

-There is inevitably

-Communications can not be changed

-Communications has the dimensions content and relationship

-Communications includes adjustment process

-Communications can not be seen as symmetrical relations / complementary