COMMUNICATION AND THE GROUP PROCESS

Communication and the Group Process

Communication styles

Introduction

From birth, all show a tendency toward introversion or to expressiveness. Later, the education we receive makes this inherent tendency to become more or less strong. In educating our children about the way, parents interact heavily influenced as we are their role models. For example, if you try to disregard our partners, we develop an aggressive style is likely that our children play with their friends. Individuality in relationships with others determines the style of communication, by which understood as a system of principles, norms, practices, methods of interaction and individual behavior. Most clearly manifested in the communication style of business and professional life, and in relationships between business partners, or between supervisor and subordinate. That is why the problem of style better studied in the field of communication (Barnlund, 2008).

Rational communication

Rational communication is a goal-oriented interactional activity, which has three aspects. Firstly, the messages of the interactants are means to achieve some end and responsive to the requirements of the situation. Secondly, rational interactants take into account the goals and plans of the other interactants. Thirdly, rational interact ants take up the other's purposes working towards an accepted common goal, so that their interaction truly is a joint activity. Scientific communication, in particular, is rational communication in which the interactants are scientists and the primary common goal of the interaction is the advancement of science.

The rational way and track moving

The hegemony of one or other of the factors that influence decisions and behavior, reasoning and emotions, we are two great ways of persuasive communication, the rational and emotional way, characterized in turn by the preferred use one of the two kinds of thinking, the primary and secondary, logical and associative. The rational way, which is governed by logical thinking, reasoning acts. It goes from cause to effect or from effect to cause. The emotional track, which governed by associative thinking, due to other parameters: argument does not act but by transfer (Richard, 2002).

It acts by simple contiguity, proximity, similarity, simultaneity, emotional or symbolic association. Trying to convince the rational way, i.e. To provide reasons or arguments that lead to persuaded to take the point of view of the persuader. The emotional way, however, intends to seduce, lure the receiver from the fascination. The rational and emotional way they move, then, different mental spheres. A person like from the parameters of logical thinking is a person who convinces his way of thinking or acting. Instead, a person who likes from the parameters of associative thinking, for example, a person whose physical remember, consciously or unconsciously, someone who can be seen, or a person who associated with happy times one's life, although she had nothing to do with this happiness (Koprowska, 2008).

From the field, of television advertising is easy to illustrate the mechanisms of double track and the peculiarities of thinking that underlies them. Using the rational way to advertise a product is on offer arguments to convince the objective benefits of ...