Homework
Learning Objectives:
1) Use Knapp's model to describe the nature of communication in the various stages of a relationship.
2) Identify the three stages of Knapp's model: coming together, relational maintenance, and coming apart.
3) Reflect on how changes in these three stages of the relationship might have caused the relationship to unfold differently.
Part I
Instructions:
• Think of a romantic or close relationship that you had that unfolded through most of the developmental stages, ending in termination. As your text explains, no all relationship move through all of the stages in a linear, predictable order. However, you'll likely find that your significant relationships will reflect most of the stages in some way.
• In the spaces below, describe a memorable event or conversation that illustrates how your relationship fulfilled that stage of Knapp's model of communication.
o Initiating:
o Experimenting:
o Intensifying:
o Integrating:
o Bonding:
o Differentiating:
o Circumscribing:
o Stagnating:
o Avoiding:
o Terminating:
o Reflect:
Part II
• Review your answers and identify key events that marked the three stages of Knapp's model: coming together, relational maintenance, and coming apart. For example, what happened that led you to move from Differentiating and Circumscribing to Stagnating?
• Describe how changes in behavior and events in these three stages of the relationship might have caused the relationship to unfold differently.
Format your homework according to the give formatting requirements:
• The answer must be using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, and typed, with one-inch margins on all sides.
• The response also includes a cover page containing the student's name, the title of the homework, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
• Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.