COMMUNICATION, PERCEPTION, AND SELF

Chapter 2 Recap/Lecture

What’s the relationship between the three?

DISCUSSION QUESTION:

Communication + Perception + Self Implicit Personality Theory (The Halo Effect)

Cara is friendly, intelligent and ______ Warm? Rude? Bright? Distant?

Attribution Theory Maya is always grumpy. She never wants to socialize with anyone.

When she comes into work and she doesn’t greet anyone, what would you think?

Erica is always very cheerful. She likes to crack jokes and make people smile. When she comes into the office one day and goes straight to her desk (without greeting anyone), what would you think?

Continual Process of Modification Responding to Stimuli

If I meet a person on Facebook through a group message about reality television.

Three-Part Discussion/Application Perceptions of Self (Self-Concept) Others’ Perceptions of Us Perceptions of Others

Application Exercise #1

Self-Concept

Permanent? Self-awareness + Self-esteem Symbolic Interactionism Theory (Mead) Improving Self Concept

Have desire to change Decide what you want to change Set reasonable personal goals Review and revise

Self-Concept

Self-fulfilling prophecy Identity Management

Facework (Positive vs. Negative) Working on Identity Management

Timing Focusing on Present; Concentrate on the

Message Self-Monitoring

e.g. positive qualities, flaws, worldview, goals, areas you want to improve upon, etc.

Do you think others perceive you in this way? Friends? Strangers?

What is your self-concept?

Perceptions

Process Attending and Selecting

Selective perception Organizing

Relational Schema Stereotypes

Interpreting Retrieving

Selective Retention

Perceptions

Influences Culture Sex and Gender

Difference between the two? Gender Schema Gender Socialization

Examples of Gender Roles

Perceptions

Influences Sense of Self Physical Factors (e.g. age, health)

What if a 80 year old was in a night club? Technology (how we use it; what it means

to use it) What if I didn’t have a cellular phone? What if I had a flip phone? What if I didn’t have Facebook or Twitter?

Perceptions of Others

Watch the clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYQqQELODnA (Beginning and 7:20 mark)

Think about your perceptions of both individuals communicating

How do those perceptions impact your willingness to communicate with them?

How do your perceptions impact how you would communicate with them?

How do you think their perceptions impacted how they communicated with each other?

Improving Perceptions

Understand Personal Worldview Realize Incompleteness of Perception Seek Explanation and Clarification Distinguish Fact from Inference

Perceptions of Dr. Goldman

Initial thoughts? Why? Have they changed? Why? What if I sent you a Facebook Request,

with the username: Adria “I’m so fly” Goldman

What if my phone rung in class and my ringtone was your favorite song?

Perceptions of Others

Application Exercise #1 Part A: Perceptions of friends Part B: Perceptions from classmates

(strangers?)

Your Perceptions of Others/Others’ Perceptions of You

Activity: Find out how others in our class perceive you. How do you perceive them? Converse with 4 of your classmates Ask how they perceive you; share how you

perceive them Mention if your perception has changed any

from the first day of class Be KIND; Constructive feedback Note the type of communication

(interpersonal or impersonal)

Did the perceptions of others change your self-concept?

Revisit Self-Concept Notes

Shaping Perceptions

Technology; how do we use technology to shape others’ perceptions of who we are?

Application Exercise #2