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INSTRUCTIONS: Arbitrarily decide on a day to do this assignment. Select a day when you will be interacting with a variety of people. You are going to record two interactions—one in which you know the other fairly well, and the other in which you do not know the other very well. It may help you to keep a diary during the day and make notes of the interactions after they have occurred so you can go back and make comparisons. If you feel the interactions of which you are part are unnatural (in other words, prompted solely by this assignment), wait and record an instance that is more spontaneous. INTERACTION 1: 1. Interactants: a. Gender Composition (circle): M/M F/F M/F b. Familiarity with each other (circle): 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Not at Very all familiar Familiar c. Age of Pair (circle): • Within 1-2 years • More than 2 years, but less than 5 years • More than 5 years difference in age d. Status: • About the same • You have higher status • Other has higher status e. Cultural Background: • Similar • Somewhat different • Very different f. Describe the content of communication The interaction I had with this person would be considered dyadic communication. This individual and myself had a casual conversation at a bar/restaurant one night to catch up with each other and discuss how school and life in general had be going. We conversed for around an hour about many different topics. g. Describe the (setting) of interaction (Formal/informal; private/public; loud/quiet, etc) The setting of this particular interaction was very informal. The restaurant/bar was very laid back and the atmosphere was likewise. The setting was for the most part private even though it took place in a very public venue. Our table was somewhat isolated so there were not too many distractions. This followed for the noise factor being that it was fairly quiet. There was background music as well as background noise from other tables but the bar was starting to shut down so for the most part things were not too loud. 2. Attribution a. Explain your judgments about whether you attributed the person’s behavior to internal or external causes. Make sure you address the issues of consensus, consistency, distinctiveness, and controllability. In our conversations, I found that the attributions I made on the person’s behavior were due to internal causes as well as external. The person was of high consensus, high consistency, low distinctiveness, and seemed to act on a high controllability. Consensus – I concluded that the person with which I was having this conversation had a high consensus. This person acted in ways very similar to most everyone at the bar. The person was dressed relatively the same, carried on in relatively the same manor, and had a general laid back attitude much like most everyone at the setting. This led me to the conclusion that in dealing with consensus this person’s behaviors were governed by external forces. Consistency -- As far as consistency goes, the person seemed to act for the most part the same throughout the duration of the conversation. However, as a few drinks were consumed actions changed in the slightest bit but not enough to say that the actions were mainly controlled by external forces. From beginning to end the person with whom I was conversing was jovial, interested, and casual which with the exception of the slight changes by alcohol led me to the conclusion that this high consistency was attributed to internal causes. Distinctiveness -- I found that the person with whom I was conversing was of low distinctiveness. I found this to be true because the manor in which this person acted was very similar to the ways in which they had acted in many different situations/conversations we had previously had. This person had a few drinks like they had always done in the past in different situations and carried on a care free attitude as this person normally does in most every situation they encounter. The person did not let the situation change the way they acted in the least. They also expected me to pick up the tab….as usual. Due to these, I found that the person’s low distinctiveness was attributed to internal forces. Controllability – The person’s control of situations seemed to be high.
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