Assignment
Defensiveness implies protecting ourselves from a perceived threat. The universal tendency is to try to "save face" by defending our presenting self when we perceive that it has been attacked by what social scientists call "face-threatening acts." Frequently, this results in creating a climate that leads to a negative defensive spiral.
Discuss the following in your paper:
1) Explain who tends to be defensive: yourself, the other person, or both?
2) Explain what topics, issues, and/or concerns trigger this defensiveness.
3) Explain the consequences of defensiveness--How does it affect resolution, for example?
4) Label the defensiveness with the type of climate according to one of the six Gibb categories.
5) Explain what you could do to create one or more of the opposing supportive communication climates.
6) Explain how the defensiveness could be tamed. If you are not the one being defensive, consider the techniques you could use to address the defensiveness as explained in the text.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
(1) The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
(2) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
(3) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.