What is the difference between supportive and defensive communication? Supportive communication focuses on resolving conflict through cooperation. Defensive communication, on the other hand, is about focusing on the conflict itself rather than solving it.

The third step to effectively communicating involves us asking for feedback.

Explanation: According to the question, the option that is not an example of effective usage and interpretation of verbal messages is option C because reading an assigned passage is not an interpretation of a verbal message.

Answer: The correct answer is A. Hostile communication is communication that creates mistrust, hostility or hurt and indicates a desire for conflict rather than cooperation.

1. Step 1: Observation. The first component of effective communication is to observe what we hear or see without blaming, judging or evaluating.
2. Step 2: Feelings. The second component of effective communication is to express our feelings.
3. Step 3: Needs.
4. Step 4: Request.
5. Step 5: Putting it all together.

Supportive communication skills means: Listen to what is being said rather than offer advice/guidance. Show interest by looking at the person, nodding agreement. Encourage the person to speak freely, expressing their views and opinions.

Endorsement

A confirming response is a statement or behavior that causes another person to value him/herself more.

There are three kinds of confirming behavior: recognition, acknowledgement and endorsement.

tangential response. acknowledging a person’s message but immediately taking the conversation in a different direction. Impersonal response. When a person give a monologue (talking at length about one’s own concerns rather than participating in conversational give-and-take)

Confirming and Disconfirming Climates We experience Confirming Climates when we receive messages that demonstrate our value and worth from those with whom we have a relationship. Conversely, we experience Disconfirming Climates when we receive messages that suggest we are devalued and unimportant.

messages that we perceive as challenging the image we want to project. in which the speaker conducts a monologue filled with detached, intellectualized, and generalized statements. a response that fails to acknowledge the other person’s communicative attempt, either verbally or nonverbally.

Spontaneity simply means being honest with others rather than manipulating them. Gibb’s emphasis on being direct would be better suited for a high context culture like Japan vs a low context culture like the US.

1 : the quality or state of being spontaneous. 2 : voluntary or undetermined action or movement also : its source. Synonyms & Antonyms Example Sentences Learn More about spontaneity.

Nonverbal communication types include facial expressions, gestures, paralinguistics such as loudness or tone of voice, body language, proxemics or personal space, eye gaze, haptics (touch), appearance, and artifacts.

Provisionalism is the supportive behavior that contrasts certainty. This is when one person feels they are correct but is willing to listen to the other person and is prepared to change their mind or opinion if the other idea is more reasonable.

Beltlining. An unproductive interpersonal conflict strategy in which one person hits at a psychological or emotion level at which the other person cannot withstand the blow.

Speakers who communicate with certainty come across as narrow-minded and unwilling to listen to another point of view while provisional communication involves acknoledging other points of view and possibilities. Language of certainty suggests there is only one answer, and the speaker has it.

: the quality or state of being superior also : a superior characteristic.

Synonyms & Antonyms of superior

• arrogant,
• assumptive,
• bumptious,
• cavalier,
• chesty,
• haughty,
• high-and-mighty,
• high-handed,

Superiority is the quality of being better than or superior to someone else. Of course, sometimes superiority is all in your head; in that case, some people might say you have a superiority complex, which means that you think you’re better than everyone else!

Superiority sentence example

1. It’s so pleasant when you understand your true talents and realize your superiority makes you capable of near impossible goals.
2. The ethico-religious ideal is the sorrowless condition, the state of superiority to all evils, the state of order and of rest.

The state or quality of being superior, or higher, greater, better, etc. Superiority is the state of being greater or better than something or someone else. An example of superiority is a restaurant being the highest ranked on Yelp. An instance of this.

noun. the quality or condition of being superior.

Definitions for insuperior. in·su·pe·ri·or.

What is the opposite of superior?

1 : of little or less importance, value, or merit always felt inferior to his older brother. 2a : of low or lower degree or rank. b : of poor quality : mediocre.

1 : interior quality or character. 2 : inner life or substance : psychological existence.

1 : the quality or state of disagreeing or being at variance. 2 : an instance of disagreeing or being at variance.