Using Chapters 2, 4, and 6-8 of your text book, answer the following questions:

1. Describe the different stages of self-awareness you saw Toula experience before, during and

after her transformation. (Ch.2, pp. 32-44 & 52)

2. Briefly describe any 1-2 nonverbal behaviors you saw in the video clips, and identify those using concepts from Ch. 4, pp. 88-90.

3. What is Toula’s family’s:

(a) cultural orientation? ____________________________________________________

(b) cultural style of communication? __________________________________________

Briefly explain your answer using concepts from Ch. 6 (pp. 141-148):

4. What is Ian’s family’s:

(a) cultural orientation? ____________________________________________________

(b) cultural style of communication? __________________________________________

Briefly explain your answer using concepts from Ch. 6 (pp. 141-148):

5. What acts of appropriate or inappropriate, and/or risk(s) in self-disclosure did you see? (Ch.7, pp.180-182)

(a) Identify each person

(b) Briefly describe the communication episode

6. In the video clips you saw, use Johari’s window to briefly answer the following questions:

(Ch. 7, pp. 183-182)

a. What did Toula know about herself that others knew too?

b. What did others know about Toula that she did not know about herself?

c. What did Toula know about herself that others did not know?

d. What did no one knew about Toula that neither she nor others knew?

7. In the video clips you saw, describe the stages of relationships Toula and Ian experienced.

(Ch 8, pp. 197-201)

8. Identify and briefly describe:

(Ch. 8, pp. 208-209)

a. Ian’s style of managing conflict:

b. Toula’s style of managing conflict:

ATTACHMENT #2

Debriefing Questions

1. Describe any acts of self-disclosure you saw

(a) Was it (were they) appropriate or inappropriate?

2. What acts of reciprocity in self-disclosure did you see?

3. What did Toula tell her father when he asked where she was going?

4. Does Toula have the right to NOT self-disclose? Why/not?

5. What was Toula’s family’s communication style? What makes you answer (whatever their answer is)?

5. When Toula’s mother says “Lucky for me I have YOU to tie my shoes!” would you say this communication was high or low context. Why?

6. What do you think she meant by that?

7. What is Toula’s family’s cultural orientation?

(a) Can anyone describe incidences that would be indicative of your answer?

8. What is Ian’s family’s cultural orientation?

(a) Can anyone describe incidences that would be indicative of your answer?

9. Was there anyone in the movie who displayed ethnocentric attributes?

(a) Who?

(b) What did you see?

10. Was there anyone in the movie who displayed ethnorelative attributes?

(a) Who?

(b) What did you see?

11. Before Toula thought to change her appearance, which one of Johari’s Windows do you think Toula’s self-awareness belonged in? Why?

12. When Toula went to her father about going to college to take computer courses, what was her perception of herself compared to her father’s perception of her?

Brown, C.M. (2006)