Minggu, 09 Desember 2012

Andrew Conley Study Case

Basic Theory: Willingness to imitate behavior observed in others, in particular, Aggression.

Study Case: Andrew Conley Case (2009)

Factors:
Andrew's depression due to lack of parental attention and control. As he grew up (as a teenager), he's looking for some clue of His personal identification from anywhere he could, including the media. Frankly, he found it from Dexter, a US TV series about a serial killer. He felt certain similarities with Dexter, so by that He looked up at Dexter as a role model. From Albert Bandura's theory we know that, “Models are an important source for learning new behaviors and for achieving behavioral change.”

Process:
We can look up to Bandura's Modelling Steps:


1.) Attentional Process: The Dexter Tv show grabs Andrew Conely attention personally, so he's constantly watch the show to perceives Dexter's behavior.
2.) Retention Process: Because of constant watching (the show), Andrew tend to remembers Dexter's behavior, that he already observed through, and already 'feel connected' to the model.
3.) Motor Reproduction Processes: Since He already observing the model's behavior and it's already coded on His memories, it created a new behavior on Him. Not only that, He begin to fantasizing on actually killing people. 
4.) Motivational Processes: In this phase, The wants to react His model's behavior is already there, not just a certain feeling, but the aggression to do the same thing. To Act.

Effect:
Andrew's Tormented and over identifying characters, brought Him to jail. He killed His little brother with His bare hands and from his face you could see that there's no regrets on killing his brother,his own sibling.


Full of Violence Media prove that it:

  • Could increase individuals styles of behavior. 
  • Lower restraints on aggressive acts of individuals
  • Different views on violence, because their image of social reality is based upon what type of violence they see
  • Once you get truly attached to a certain tv show,you will feel that you're in the current situation and somehow,it influence you to do the same thing that he/she did on the show & feel satisfied by doing so.

Source 

  • Wikipedia
  • "Personality Theories 3rd Edition" by Larry A. Hjelle & Daniel J. Ziegler
            Publisher Mcgraw-Hill international Edition


Minggu, 25 November 2012

Relational Pattern and the Factors that Affecting it


Relational Patterns

1.   Supportive and Defensive Climates
                            
Defensive Climate
           Defensive climate – Composed of a pattern of closedness and defensiveness.
           People feel defensive when they feel threatened during communication or perceive              that they are under attack.

Supportive Climate
Supportive climate - Composed of a pattern of openness and supportiveness.
People are supportive when they are being provisional demonstrates a respect for other people's opinions and thus for them, as well to entertain ideas other than your own.
o   These both types of relational patterns are used during interpersonal communication. This depends on how we face a communication problem and what kind of communication that should we use to solve the problem.
o   Example: When a kid is being told by their mom that their room is too messy. That kid could respond in a very rude way or keep defending theirselves (who is clearly wrong),that action is called Defensive Climate. But if he tries to work out on how to make things straight,this action is called Supportive Climate.

2.   Dependencies and Counterdependencies

Dependencies
A person or individual who has a tendency to dependent and rely on others advice, guidance, or support. Then they agree in whatever the other says or does.

Counterdependencies
The counterdependent is the opposite of the dependent.
A person is not being dependent or needed support on the others, but independent and he or she is usually refuse the opinion and assistance of others.

o   The both of it is general patterns of personal issues and life experiences that can lead to personal psychological characteristics of an individual.
o   Example: When a person feels like they’re a minority or a shy person,they are called Dependencies,On the other way,people who never believes/always rejects other people’s opinion because of traumatic childhood experience or bad early education that causes that person to be careless about their surroundings and become self closure is called Counterdependencies.


3.   Progressive and Regressive Spirals

Progressive
When the actions and reactions of individuals in relationship are consistent with their goals and needs, the relationship progresses with continual increases in the need level of harmony and satisfaction. the message processing leads to the positive in their experience.

Regressive Spirals
The relationship growing with no harmony and satisfaction. This pattern of relation leads to the negative situation that increasing discomfort, distance, frustation for everyone involved.

o   These patterns are the communication between the two of individuals in relation that can determine what will be achieved and the success or failure of  something of their goal. Which one partner's behavior intensifies that of the other.
o   Example: It will be progressive when one partner's behavior leads to increasing levels of satisfaction for the other. Then it will be regressive, where one partner's communication leads to increasing dissatisfaction.

Factors That Influence The Pattern of Relation

1.    Stage of Relationship and Context
Naturally, people meeting each other for the first time interact in a different manner than people who have lived together for several years.
2.     Interpersonal Needs and Style
involved represent other influences on communication within relationships. we each develop our own spesific needs relative to control, affection, and inclusion as we do in other areas. interpersonal style also plays a key role in shaping the communication patterns emerge relationship. style deal with their thoughts and feelings in a forthright.
3.    Power
The power also affects the interpersonal relation, when one individual have a higher power than their partner. The power could be intelligence, money, or strength within the meaning of maturity.
4.    Conflict
An incompatibility of interest between two or more people giving rise to struggles between them.



The Case

Finding Nemo Movie


              http://www.dan-dare.org/FreeFun/Games/CartoonsMoviesTV/FindingNemo.htm

The film then moves on to Nemo's first day of school. Nemo has a tiny right fin, due to a minor injury to his egg from the barracuda attack, which limits his swimming ability. After Marlin embarrasses Nemo during a school field trip, Nemo disobeys his father and sneaks away from the reef towards a boat, resulting in him being captured by scuba divers.

Relational Patterns :

o   Counterdependencies
After the barracuda attack we see what Marlin has become the epitome of overprotective parenting. He's trying to ensure that “nothing ever happens to Nemo”. No matter how others tell him that Nemo would be fine in the school.
o   Defensive
The over protective parenting of Marlin and how he talked with Nemo, Nemo felt humiliated and made ​​to act defensively.
o   Regressive Spirals
How Marlin are too protective causes the problems grow more complex and it leads to negative situation that made Nemo feels discomfort and disobey his father.


Factors that influece the patterns :

o   Interpersonal Needs and Style
Marlin may try to fill safety needs for Nemo by controlling and over protecting against his desire for adventure, although Nemo’s need for safety may not be as strong has his needs for recognition that he could do anything like a normal fish.
o   Power
Because the relationship between them. As a father, Marlin was controlling and very protective of Nemo.
o   Conflict
An incompatibility needs between Marlin and Nemo giving rise the conflict between them made Nemo disobeys his father and be captured by scuba divers.


Sabtu, 29 September 2012

Models of Communication




 1.        Stimulus – Response Model

This model is the most basic model in communication. This is show communication as an action – reaction process. This model think that verbal words, inverbal signs, pictures and actions will simulate other people to give the response in some ways. This process could be interactive and have lot of effect. Every single effect could change another act of communication in the next level.
This model ignore that communication is a process. In other words, communication is considered as a static thing.

2.        Aristotle’s Model

This is the most classical model in communication, and also is called as a rhetorical model.
This model make formula about first verbal communication model and have 3 basic part of communication : Speaker, Message, and Listener.

Communication happen when a speaker speak their messages to listener in order to change their behavior.
This model is about speech to persuade people. According to Aristoteles, the persuade can be reached by the one person that people believe. The argument, and by playing listeners emotion.
Strength :
o   Inspire a lot of communication scientist which lead to newer model
Weaknesses :
o   This model doesn’t mention nonverbal aspects in order to persuade
o   Considers communication as a static phenomenon

3.        Schramm’s Model

He conceived of decoding and enoding as activities maintained
Stimultaneously by sender and receiver; he also made provisions for a two-way interchanger of messages. Notice also the inclusion of an “interpreter’’ as an abstract representation of the problem of meaning.
Schramm think that communication always needs 3 element : Source, Message, and Destination.
According to Schramm, everyone in communication’s process is clearly besome both encoder and decoder. We constantly encode back signs from our enviroment, interpret that signs and decode something as a results.
Backward process in the model is called feed back, which playing an important rule in communication. Because it let us know how do our message being interpreted.
Strengths :
o   Two way communication
o   Includes the context of the message
o   Includes the culture
Weakness :
o   Account for only bilateral communication


4.        Shannon and Weaver’s Model

This model is mathematical model of communication. It was developed by telephone engineers to send message easier and faster from one point to another.
Communication was conceived as a linear model of transmission of a message from a source to  receiver via signal producing transmitter.
This model presupposes an information source who create a message and send it by some channel to a receiver who recreate that message.
In other wirds, this model assumsion that information source cerate some message to be communicated from available set of messages. Transmitter changes messages to signal which suitable with the used channel.
Channel is a medium which sending a sign fromtransmitter to receiver.
Example In conversation : information source is a brain, the transmitter is voice which create a signs that transmitted by air. The receiver is a hearing mechanism and reconstruction a message from a signs. The destination is a receiver’s brain. And the important concept from this model is a noise.

This model think that communication is a static phenomenon, one way, and too much complicated
Strengths :
o   Allowed for variation
o   Allowed for development
o   Influential
o   Heuristic Value
Weaknesses :
o   Static and linear
o   Complicated
o   Not analogous to human communication
o   Formal only


5.        Lasswell’s Model

Lasswell’s model is a verbal saying, which say about who says what in which channel, to whom with what effect?
This model say about communication process and it’s function to society. Lasswell said 3 function of communication. The first one is enviromental monitoring. Then a relation from every departed society which give a response to enviroment. And the last one is a social trenmission from one generation to the other.

This model is often used in mass communication. Who to gate keeper, says what is a source to analyze about the message. In which channel to media. To whom to audience. And with what effect is about the effect which is made by message of mass communication to reader, listener, etc.
Strengths :
o   It suits for almost all types of communication
o   The concept of effect
Weaknesses :
o   Linear model
o   Noise and feedback not mentioned


6.        Berlo’s Model

Also known as SMCR model. Source, message, channel, and receiver. Source is the creator of the messages. Message is translation of idea to a symbolic code. Channel is a medium that bring the message. And the receiver is the target of communication.
Strengths :
o   Heuristic
o   This model could reach treatment mass communication, public, interpersonal, and written communication.
o   Allowed for encoding and decoding of messages.
Weaknesses :
o   Static phenomenon
o   Feedback not mentioned
o   Considers nonverbal communication as unimportant thing.


7.        Dance’s Model

From Frank Dance’s dimensions of communication shows dynamics of message, we understan that definitions are tools that shoul be used flexibly. The definition of communication may be board and inclusive or restrictive and some definitions may include only purposeful message sending and receiving while others do not have such limitations.
Strengths :
o   Interesting approach to show spirit of the message
o   Continous vibe given
Weaknesses :
o   Too few variables
o   Leaves too much unanswered


8.        De Fleur’s Model

It’s a mass communication model, by inserting mass medium device, and feedback device. It draw a source, transmitter, receiver, and destination as a departed phase in mass communication process.
The function of receiver in Defleur’s model is to receive information and encode it.

According to Defleur, communication isn’t meaning transfer. Communication happen by a set of component operation in some theoretical system, which the consequence is isomorphism between intern response to set of symbol to source and receiver.
Strength :
o   Descriptive power
Weakness :
o   It’s inability to explain long term media effect


9.        Gudykunst and Kim’s Model

This model actually is an intercultural communication model. This model basely is suitable for face tp face communication or 2 people. Because there is no 2 person which have culture, social culture, and psycho culture precisely similar.

This model assume 2 persons which equal in communication, each of them as a sender and also a receiver, of both of them encoding and decoding. Because of that we can see that messages from someone is a feedback from the other one.Message/ feedbacki between them is represented by a line from someone’s encoding to another decoding. The two lines shows that everyone of us go and won’t do anything until we get the feedback.
Strength :
o   Allowed for encoding and decoding of the message
Weakness :
o   Accounts for only bilateral communication