HDFS 1070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Conflict Management, Apache Hadoop, Role Conflict

• School: UConn
• Department: Human Development and Family Studies
• Course: HDFS 1070
• Professor: ronsabatelli

Document Summary

Which group of teens has the highest pregnancy rate. Tasks for couples: establish communication patterns that promote intimacy and manage conflict. Definition of communication: exchange of info in the form of messages. Critical questions: does communication lead to intimacy (intentional communication that has a goal), does intimacy inform the confirmation process: both are true, how you feel about someone influences transactional patterns, not good at disguising how we feel. Intentional communication (communication has a goal, to promote or erode intimacy) as opposed to the ongoing exchange of messages (carried through transactional patterns & metalevel and metamessages) Axioms of communications (always true: one cannot not communicate, all behavior is communication, all communication provides information about self, other & relationship. Core concepts: content messages, metamessages (eye contact, tone of voice, meta-level of communication provides us with the info we really need to have to know what information is being conveyed, pay more attention to this)