COMM 470 Agenda - Week 7

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COMM 470 Agenda - Week 7

• RAT 3 Today
• LC1 Due Today
• Eye Contact
• Listening Exercise for Week 8
• TEAMS please remove RP3a forms
• ITE7a Calibrate with Your Team - How was
  Listening this Week?
• Review of ITE6 - Swets FAILURE, SUCCESS
• ITE 7b Reflect Back, Part I
• ITE 7b Reflect Back, Part I

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Procedures for RATs

• Clear Your Desktop of Everything Except
• A Scantron
• A Blank Sheet of Paper
• Your Copy of the RAT
• Be sure to write your name on your copy of the
  RAT
• Refer to the Directions in Your Folder

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In-Class Team Exercise 7a

• Discuss
• How did you do with EYE CONTACT this week?
• Count how many times share 2 examples
• Deliverable Summarize in a table how many
  conversations you each had where you1) thought
  about the assignment, and then2) succeeded
  partially3) succeeded completely
• 4) ADDED estimate your TOTAL of
  conversations last week
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• How did you do on Sharing of Ones Self this
  week?
• Share an example if you have one . . .

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Eye Contact, Continued

• Pair Up
• Pick an A and a B (A has the longest hair)
• A talk to B for 2 minutes about A Recent Movie
  (or TV Show) You Saw
• Bs Job is to Attend to A in all ways except eye
  contact use inappropriate eye contact (too
  little)
• Reverse Roles (use too much eye contact)
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• Deliverable None

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Listening Exercise for Week 8

• Focus on
• Presenting Open Body Language As a Listener
  or a Speaker (Arms, Legs, Posture, Facing, Head
  Movements, etc.)
• Notice the Body Language of Others
• Notice how much eye contact others make
• Also Make it a Point to
• Continue to Attend to Eye Contact
• Reveal something about yourself (as appropriate)

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In-Class Team Exercise 7b

• Paired sharing
• Share Music Category Preferences within the
  Team(Hip Hop, Classic Rock, Country, World Beat,
  Classical, Jazz, Blues, Reggae, etc.)
• Pair Yourself with Someone with Different Tastes
• Designate an A (First in Alphabet) and a B
• A Describe your favorite concert (or band)
• B restate, reword, reflect As position during
  the conversation (ala Carl Rogers) until A is
  satisfied youre got it
• Reverse Roles
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• Deliverable On your ITE sheet, List the pairs
  and the type of music each person likes

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In-Class Team Exercise 7c

• Change pairs for more paired sharing
• Find a topic on which you disagree(Iraq, NSA
  spying, abortion, environmental issues, PETA,
  men, women, family, kids, relationships)
• Designate an A (Comes second in alphabet) and a B
• A - state your position
• B restate, reword, reflect As position during
  the conversation (ala Carl Rogers) until A is
  satisfied youre got it
• Reverse Roles
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• Deliverable On your ITE sheet, List the pairs
  and the issue about which each pair disagreed

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10 Factors Influencing the Listening Process

1. Culture (11
2. Gender (11
3. Age (111
4. Hemispheric Specialization
5. Physical Psychological States (1111 111
6. Attitudes (1111 1111 1
7. Self-concept (11
8. Receiver Apprehension (1
9. Time (1
10. Listener Preferences

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Causes of Communication Breakdown

• FAILURE
• Fear (111
• Assumptions (1111 1111 1
• Insensitivity
• Labeling (1
• Uncertainty (1111 111
• Resentment (1
• Egotism (1111 11

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Attributes of Successful Communication

• SUCCESS
• Self-awareness (11
• Understanding (1111 1111
• Care for others (1111
• Control of Emotions (1111 1
• Esteem of ones self (1
• Self-confidence (1111 1
• Sharing of ones self (11