Various Types of communication a Competent Communicator Uses Amurri Davis
Perception Checking... is a message you create to check your understanding of someone’s words or behavior.
Perception checking involves three parts:
1: A description of what you witnessed happen or understood.
2: Some possibilities for the behavior you witnessed.
3: Asking for clarification to make sure whether or not your interpretation of the situation was an assumption.
Perception Checking is important because it can help calm down hectic situations and for you to understand the other person’s side.
The Triangle of Meaning... is a model of communication that indicates the relationship among a users thought, symbol, and referent.
The triangle of meaning also highlights the indirect relationship between the symbol and referent.
The symbol is the word's connotative meaning, the users thought is the word's connotative meaning, and the referent is the denotative meaning.
Knowing the triangle of meaning model is important due to it helping people understand exactly what another person means to communicate with the context or thought provided.
Active Listening... is where you make a mindful effort to understand both the words that another person is saying and the entire message being communicated.
Active Listening can come in three parts- 1: Listening to the entire message being communicated. 2: Paraphrase the facts and feelings you got from the message. 3: Ask a question to clarify your understanding or to help you and the other person think about the situation in a different way.
Active listening is important as it helps you truly understand what people are saying in conversations and in class, helps build trust and creates a rapport with an interviewer for a job or school, and overall it helps avoid misunderstandings.
Here are some of my examples of active listening:
Nonverbal Communication... is the process of sending and receiving messages without using words, either spoken or written.
Understanding nonverbal communication and cues is important because when people can pick up on them, people know how to proceed with a person during the conversation. Non-verbal communication also increases the understanding of messages. When verbal and nonverbal communication are similar, it helps establish a clearer perspective on the whole message being sent.
+Gestures (left): Also known as kinesics, is such a basic element to communication that even blind people use them. Gestures and posture can help establish if you’re inviting the conversation, display your mood, and shows your confidence level.
+Touch (middle): Also known as haptics, is the first language we learn as babies. Touch can help draw out a more emotional response from the person you are try to communicate with and increases compliance with that person if you are asking for a request.
+Appearance (right): Physically attractive people tend to be more welcomed than those that are not. For example- There is an “attractive bias” (lookism) where people who are more physically attractive have more opportunities open to them such as getting jobs easier and having a higher pay than those who are not as attractive. Clothing also plays a part in how you are treated as it can show your economical and social status, beliefs and moral code, and other interests like sports or hobbies.
The Love Languages
There are 5 primary styles people prefer to express their love or intimacy.
It is important to know and understand these styles so you can learn other’s love languages and show your partner, friend, or family member that you love them in the way they understand best.
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