Question 1

Briefly describe a conflict you have experienced within the last couple of weeks.Diagram that conflict using the overlapping TRIP goals.In addition to your own goals,diagram what you believe the goals of your conflict partner(s)may have been.

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Question 2

Hocker and Wilmot provide the acronym T.R.I.P.to help us remember issues related to differing conflict goals.Describe the different goals,and then using a conflict of your own,explain the ways in which each is relevant to your understanding of that conflict.

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Question 3

Hocker and Wilmot summarize several advantages of clarifying your goals in a conflict.Which of the following is NOT an advantage identified?

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Question 4

Why do parties in conflict sometimes get stuck on the "topic" goals? Discuss the challenges you perceive in trying to identify your identity and relational goals during a conflict? (These two questions are suggesting that identifying relational and identity goals make sense when we read about them.How does it play out in real life?)Finally,what would make it easier?

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Question 5

Explain how goals in a conflict can change over time.Be sure to use the terms from the text in your explanation.

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Question 6

Describe and provide an example of the relationship between identity goals and face-saving.

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Question 7

What are some ways you can help the other person "save face?" What impact might these strategies have on the conflict?

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Question 8

If you work to reach your own goal while at the same time seek to please the other you are upholding which of the following items on the author's checklist for "good goals?"

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Goals that recognize interdependence require balancing personal goals with the needs and desires of others. When you work towards your own goal while also seeking to please someone else, you are recognizing the interdependence between your goal and the other person's needs or desires. This aligns with the author's checklist item of recognizing interdependence.

Question 9

In what contexts might you damage your own face? What do you gain and/or lose by that communication choice?

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Quiz 3: Interests and Goals