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Chapter 1
Eye rolling when Coral and Marlin talk about their new home. Coral rolls her eyes to Marlin for being cocky (nonverbal communication - Feedback. Listen to both verbal and nonverbal feedback—from yourself and from others—and use these cues to help you adjust your messages) Coral is not really listening to Marlin when he is bragging about his new home because he is overly excited and cocky (listening styles). |
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Chapter 2 Dory is high-ambiguity because she is okay with uncertainty but Marlin is not; Marlin is low-ambiguity. For example, when Dory and Marlin are in the whale’s mouth and Dory says “lets go,” without hesitation but Marlin does not (high- and low-ambiguity - Cultures differ in the degree to which they tolerate ambiguity and uncertainty. High-ambiguity-tolerant cultures are comfortable with uncertainty, whereas low-ambiguity-tolerant cultures are not) Nemo experiences culture shock when he gets taken from his home and how he lives and placed in the tank. He knows nothing about where he is and how the fish work rather than being with the fish in the ocean (Culture shock is the psychological reaction you experience when you encounter a culture very different from your own (Furnham & Bochner, 1986). Culture shock is normal; most people experience it when entering a new and different culture) |
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Chapter 3 Dory does not have the greatest memory so it is hard for her to recall things. When they find the goggles with the address she does remember and recall dure to the importance of the address (memory/recall - Your perceptions and their interpretations–evaluations are put into memory; they’re stored so that you may ultimately retrieve them at some later time.) Nemo is in the fish tank and has to get the rock to shut off the filter so the tank gets dirty. He has tried and failed multiple times but then he believes in himself and his self-concept is now confident when others did not believe in him (perception, self-concept - Self-concept is the image you have of who you are. Sources of self-concept include others’ images of you, social comparisons, cultural teachings, and your own interpretations and evaluations) |
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Chapter 4
During the scene where “fish are friends not food,” Dory is listening to the shark’s stories and responding, unlike Marlin who is just shaking nervously (gender differences in listening - Gender differences in listening. Understand that women give more cues that they’re listening and appear more supportive in their listening than men) Nemo gets taken by the boat and Marlin is rushing to try to get to him. He finds Dory and asks where the boat went. She said “follow me!” A few seconds later she freaks out and asks why Marlin is following her (listening barrier - Among the obstacles to effective listening are physical and mental distractions, biases and prejudices, lack of appropriate focus, and premature judgment) |
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Chapter 5
Marlin had to lie to Dory when he wanted her to swim over the trench rather than through it like she wanted (deceiving verbal message - Deception. Be alert to messages that seek to deceive but careful in reading signs of deception where there may be no deception involved) When Gill is yelling at Nemo about getting the pebble through the filter he is being assertive and aggressive until he realizes he is wrong and too aggressive (verbal messages - Messages vary in assertiveness and need to be clearly distinguished from nonassertive and aggressive messages) |
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Chapter 6
When Dory and Marlin are flopping on the dock Nigel tells them to jump into his mouth but according to their body language they are hesitating because they think he is just trying to eat them (non-verbal communications - Nonverbal messages often interact with verbal messages to accent, complement, contradict, regulate, repeat, or substitute) During that scene Nigel widens his eyes to show how important it is for them to listen to him (gestures - Eye movements. Use eye movements to seek feedback, exchange conversational turns, signal the nature of your relationship, or compensate for increased physical distance) |
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Chapter 7
Marlin does not know how to show Nemo he is nervous/scared for him because of his little fin. One scene shows Marling yelling at Nemo to not go out to sea due to the dangerous creatures out there. But his emotion is excessive and he handles it the wrong way (emotions - Emotions may be primary or blends. The primary emotions, according to Robert Plutchik, are joy, acceptance, fear, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger, and anticipation. Other emotions, such as love, awe, contempt, and aggressiveness, are blends of primary emotions) In the scene Nemo reacts to his father’s emotions by defying him and goes to the boat anyway (responding to emotion - Expressing your feelings is only half of the process of emotional communication; the other half is listening and responding to the feelings of others) |
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Chapter 8
When Marlin apologizes to Nemo towards the end of the movies he is extremely sympathetic and genuine. You can tell he is because of his body gestures by touching Nemo on the fin and his soft tone (apology - Formulate effective apologies, and use them appropriately (and ethically) in interpersonal interactions) When Flo/Deb introduces herself and “Deb,” she gives self-disclosure by telling Nemo she is nut (self-disclosure - Self-disclosing. In self-disclosing consider your motivation, the appropriateness of the disclosure to the person and context, the disclosures of others (the dyadic effect), and the possible burdens that the self-disclosure might impose on yourself or on others) |
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Chapter 9
When Marlin yells at Dory he is verbally abusing/insulting her because he is frustrated (dark side of relationships - Relationship violence may be verbal, physical, and/ or sexual) Nemo and Marlin's relationship gets better once they are separated for a long period of time during the movie. They fight right before Nemo gets taken and once Nemo is back they are better than ever (repairing a relationship - The first phase of repair is intrapersonal repair, in which you analyze what went wrong and consider ways of solving your relational difficulties) |
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Chapter 10
Marlin and Dory form a great friendship throughout their adventures in the movie (friendship - Friendship is an interpersonal relationship between two persons that is mutually productive and characterized by mutual positive regard) Marlin and Nemo have a family relationship which grows stronger throughout their troubles in the movie (Family relationships are those existing between two or more people who have defined roles, recognize their responsibilities to each other, have a shared history and a prospect of a shared future, and interact according to a shared system of communication rules) |
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