Maintaining safety is crucial to successful communication. W…
Maintaining safety is crucial to successful communication. What you say is important but can be rendered unhelpful to your cause if how you say does not communicate the same message. The what of your conversation is called ________ and the how is called ________.
Read DetailsYou are assigned a group project in class. Your group is les…
You are assigned a group project in class. Your group is less than ideal and you feel that you are doing all the work. This upsets you because they are not doing anything to get the grade you deserve. You send out an email containing the content about the PowerPoint you will use to present the next day in class. Shortly after you send out the email, you change the whole topic and PowerPoint to be presented the next day in class. You believe that if you are prepared the next day and the others are not, the professor will really know who did all the work. This is an example of which anger mismanagement style?
Read DetailsYou are in a class and you are given a group assignment. As…
You are in a class and you are given a group assignment. As part of the assignment, you are asked to agree on a topic. You have a topic that you are very interested in pursuing and you think it would be a really good one for the group. There is another person in your group who has a different opinion. You whisper to the person next to you, “What a lame idea.” What type of communication style is this?
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You get back to your brand-new car after a long day at school and you find a big dent in the side of the car presumably from where another person’s car door hit yours. There is no note. You are so angry. You think to yourself, “This is BYU. How in the world would someone do this to my car and not own up to it.” “This is so unethical.” “Students at BYU are so selfish.” “You would think that at a religious university, people would be honest.” The more you think about it the angrier you get. What are the steps in anger inoculation? How would you apply these steps to this situation? Do it for just this one situation and assume you are moderately angry (68 on a scale of 0 to 100).
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