OBSERVATION ANALYSIS OPTION #4INTERACTION MANAGEMENT: TURN-TAKINGDue: Friday, November 13thInteraction #1: While in a conversation, observe the behaviors you and your partner use to signal that a turn is ending.1. Briefly describe the interaction (e.g., who the interactants were, where the interaction took place, and gender composition).a. In my first interaction, my conversational partner was my best friend from Minnesota, Chris, who was in town for the weekend. The interaction took place on the River Walk inSan Antonio while we were perusing the town looking for something to do. The interaction was between 2 male participants.2. What behaviors did your partner exhibit when he/she was finished speaking and giving the floor to you?a. The behaviors that I observed in relation to turn yielding were a decreased rate of speech, increased gaze at the end of an utterance, and several utterance trailers. More specifically, during the course of the conversation there were multiple stories exchangedfrom the period of time that we had not seen each other, and as the each story came to a close his level of detail and rate of speech noticeably decreased to a point where one could reasonably infer that the end of the story was near. He also utilized utterance trailers such as “So, yeah”, and “but, uhh, yeah man.”3. What behaviors did you exhibit when you were finished speaking and gave the floor to your conversational partner?a. The behaviors that I noticed myself engaging in were the halt of gesture use that I was implementing to illustrate my stories, the use of questions to spark a response or gain insight into what his opinion was, and a decreased rate of speech. Specifically, as I was telling the stories I used a multitude of nonverbal behaviors to enhance the clarity of the message. The ones that I recall in detail were the use of complementing gestures toprovide more information about the topic, accenting and moderating behaviors to emphasize the climactic events and play down the less important details, and, of course, regulating behaviors during the interaction.4. Did the context (setting) or characteristics (qualities) of the interactants play a role in the behaviors exhibited?a. Yes, the context played a major role; the sheer amount of nonverbal behaviors that werepresent in our communication process were most likely attributed to the extended lengthof time that existed since the last time we got to catch up. Every time we are able to get together for a weekend or holiday there is no doubt that it will include an above average amount of interpersonal interactions. With that, comes an extremely close and open relationship that is full of the use of nonverbal behaviors that we have developed specific to our friendship throughout our lives. 5. Other observations or comments?a. In reference to Argyle & Dean’s equilibrium theory, which states that interactants seek an intimacy level comfortable to the both of them. This is something that has long been established between the two of us, and it does not necessarily allow for correct insight into the relationship because we are more likely to see varying levels of expressed intimacy in established close relationships. If there is a discrepancy from the norm in ournonverbal behaviors; such as in the amount of eye-gaze, proximity during the conversation, amount of smiling, or topic intimacy it can usually be directly attributed to the positive or negative tone from the most recent interaction.Interaction #2: While in a conversation, maintain your turn as long as you can even if your partner tries to get the floor.1. Briefly describe the interaction (e.g., who the interactants were, where the interaction took place, and gender composition). a. This interaction took place between my friend, Eric and myself while at LA Fitness working out. The conversation consisted of 2 male interactants. 2. What did you do to prevent your conversational partner from taking the floor? What waseffective and what was ineffective in your attempt?a. In my conversation, I tried to implement each of the behaviors that were laid out in the Turn-Maintaining section of the textbook. At the beginning of the conversation I began speaking about a distracting off-topic subject that I knew would prompt a response of some sort. After about a minute of rambling, I could see that he was prepping to try and take a speaking turn. In response, I initially tried to drown him out by increasing the loudness of my voice and pretending that the issue was actually important to me. This quelled his initial discomfort with the length of my speaking turn, but soon after I could see him getting ready to take his speaking turn. I then increased the intensity of the gestures, which I had been using previously, in an attempt to hold on to my speaking turn. This was not completely effective because there were still pauses that did not contain any verbal content, and he began to interject during these instances. Finally, I cut out all pauses and just continued to talk about the general subject in hopes that he would give up. However, because I ran out of relevant material to continue to talk about,he finally got fed up and just told me to shut up and focus on the workout.3. How did your conversational partner try to get the floor? What was effective and what was ineffective in his/her attempt?a. My conversational partner tried to gain the floor with a couple of different behaviors. Thefirst was the use of a deep audible intake of breathe, along with a straightening of his posture from laying on the weight bench to sitting straight up and tense. This was effective in communicating to me that he wanted the floor, but it was not aggressive or persistent enough to take away my turn. He then began to engage in pseudo agreement, as well as, a much more rigid and tense posture. By this point I knew that he was about to get really mad if I did not stop talking, so I pushed just a little bit further.Unfortunately, I ran out of relevant material to tangent on, and he pounced with his mosteffective attempt. He angrily shouted, “SHUT UP AND FOCUS!” This ended my turn almost instantly, and I immediately withdrew from the determined annoyance that was driving the interaction from the beginning. 4. Did the context or characteristics of the interactants play a role in the behaviors exhibited?a. Yes, because both interactants were male and the interaction took place inside of a gymthis greatly