Individuals with flexible communication skills are more competent than those who are locked into a narrow range of possible responses.

“Communication is transactional” means that your communication with others involves both content and relationship dimensions of messages.  

Interpersonal and Small Group Communication is a general education humanities course because it helps us secure gainful employment with higher salaries.

“Rachel fails a test after hearing her teacher tell her mother that she is an underachiever” is an example of a self-fulfilling prophecy.     

Vera comes rushing into the room, throws her books on the floor, and sits at her desk with her head in her hands.  Is the following response an effective use of the perception checking skill?  Let me help you Vera. Everything’s going to be all right. Select true if the response demonstrates an effective perception checking statement.Select false if the response does not demonstrate an effective perception checking statement. 

Our perception is affected by the experiences we have everyday.  

When we assert that communication strategies are context bound, we are saying that the appropriateness of communication is determined on the basis of socially constructed rules and norms within a specific context.

Interpersonal and Small Group Communication is a general education humanities course because it motivates us to recognize the value of differing interpretations.

  “Communication is transactional” means that the content of your message has little effect on your relationship with the other person.

According to Social Construction of Reality Theory, we collectively create what we consider to be fact.