Archive for month: November, 2014

I think that listening plays a major role in all the episodes of Survivor. They need to listen to eachother to keep everything going smoothly and communicate with one another to prevent voting a tribe member off.

I don’t like when Jeff asks members from other tribes what they think about another member going home, because they don’t know how that tribe works or their reason for voting someone off. It really bothers me!

Getting new tribes, the members are really going to have to listen to eachother to learn the new routines. The tribe members need to listen to understand so that they can grasp the meaning of tribe members’ spoken and nonverbal messages. Dale is trying to tell Missy and Baylor that they are making way too much rice. Missy and Baylor just ignore him because Baylor did things differently in her tribe. They do not listen to him and then Kelley steps in to tell her dad that a scoop of rice is not worth getting mad about because it could get you voted out because people do not want to listen to you.

It was expected that since Coyopa has more couples on it now, that they would have an easier time with their challenges because couples should be better at working together and listening to one another. Instead, Hunahpu won even though they have more single members on their tribe.

When trying to decide who to vote off their tribe, members are going to one another to create alliances and agree to vote the same person off. Members are also remembering that Baylor got others to vote someone off before and then switched her vote to someone else, so they no longer trust her.

I think now that Coyopa has 3 couples and 1 single, it will be very difficult when someone is voted off because the other partner in the relationship is not going to be happy with the rest of the group.

Chapter 7 is about  listening, the book defines listening as “the ability to understand,analyze, respect, ad appropriately respond to meanings of another person’s spoken and nonverbal messages”(Engleberg and Wynn, pg151).

Although humans spend a lot of time listening, we are not very good at it. This episode was a hard match to the reading I will be honest, so bear with me. During the elimination challenge the communication between groups shows, where the Hunapu tribe has the best team skills and is able to put the puzzle together quicker and more efficiently than the Coyopa tribe. Hinapu wins the elimination challenge.  Empathetic listening goes beyond just listening and puts the listener in the other persons shoes, although this does not effect anyone in the show I myself am under that influence. I am able to see what is going on across the board in this game, which makes me more likely to get a personal connection and understanding to the players.

In the episode “Make Some Magic Happen” it starts with the contestants being shocked that Kelly was the one who was last voted of the island. So since Kelly was voted out it changed the dynamic of the tribe. Dale was obviously upset that his tribe “slaughtered” his daughter and I wasn’t surprised that it lead to his hidden agenda. I thought that that Jon was showing empathtic listening with Dale because Jon realized what Dale’s situation and motives were about offering Jon his idol if he wasn’t eliminated next. Also, I thought that Reed and Josh were listening to interpret with each other because of how emotional they got with each other when it came winning the challenge for their team. You could really see how they were responding to each other emotionally after Reed came out victorious.

In the Hanahpu tribe things were not going well with their supply of rice pretty much gone. So they had asked to make some sort of a deal with the host Jeff. When Jeff shows up Julie instantly is showing listening to respond because she shows a sign of being worried as soon as Jeff shows up and he asks her why she was worried and she had to explain why. After that situation happened I thought that Jeremy was analytically listening to Jeff unlike the other members of his tribe because Jeremy seemed to be the only one who was really upset about Jeff taking all of their comfort supplies. It seems like to me Jeremy was the only one who was really thinking about if it was a good idea to make that trade. At the end of this episode I honestly wasn’t surprised to see Dale’s plan back fire and I wasn’t shocked when he was voted off of Survivor. I thought the Coyopa tribe had played him beautifully and it was pretty funny to see Dales face when he was kicked off. I hope the future episodes have a lot of drama in them like this one did.

 

The time spent communicating is broken down as the following 40-70% listening, 20-35% speaking, 10-20% reading, and 5-10% writing. Therefore, listening is our number one communication activity. Most of us are not very good listeners. Although most of us can hear since it only requires the physical ability, not every one knows how to effectively listen, which requires complex thinking ability to understand, analyze, respect and appropriately respond. Especially in survivor, as Reed comments “there are a lot of strong personalities” listening is that much more challenging in groups than in pairs.

For example, Jeremy was upset that his tribe wanted to make a deal with Probst for more rice. During his one on one time with the camera, “”Why y’all so hungry over a little bit of rice?” He expressed his concern for the exchange although I am sure his group heard him but did not listen. He even questioned their reasoning knowing that they could easily win a challenge soon and they would have a feast. However, they did not listen and they decided to trade their comfort items including the tarp, blankets, pillows, the extra flint and some tools like an axe and pots. They were left with only a few items and “starting from scratch”. Sure enough, they should have listened to Jeremy. In the next challenge, the reward was a survivor grill and a lot of meat—and to their surprise, they win the challenge. They now have food but what if it rains?

This is a perfect example of why is it important to listen effectively in groups. Jeremy was the only one opposed to trading in their group event thought they should have reasoned. To make matters worse, it starts raining. Now, Jeremy is extremely upset that they do not have their comfort items to keep them dry from the long and cold storm. Lesson learned!

We start this episode with John who’s trying to rekindle new alliances because his passed one may just come back to bite him in the butt. John pleads went to Jeremy who is a pretty strong player and essentially asks for forgiveness but Jeremy gives him a 50/50 acceptance. John feels like he’s gone to far into his own personal goals and as a result he doesn’t have the chance to dig himself out and hell be voted off. The eventual tribe-swap relinquished John of his fear of being targeted.

Jeremy trys to form an alliance with both him and Natia. Dale doesn’t like his new tribe he feels like there selfish and don’t care abut everyone else that’s why they go ahead and eat more irce than they should, and use scare items like htere nothing. Dale views feels like these players are not only harmful for the group but deserve to get kicked out. The copoya have retained the inability to effectively communicate they don’t have there group in myind maybe? In all I feel this episode was on point with wat weve been learning in class, we see how one person can mess up the group. We also see who one group working as a whole unit ultimately wins.