Day: Thursday
Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
Today, my lecturer was started teach the class. The title first chapter is about some basic human communication. "What is human communication?", the lecturer asked the student (include me). I think is people communicate to each others.
Based on the lecturer notes, the definition of human communication is focus on understanding how people communicate in various ways. Then, communication means that process of sending and receiving messages through verbal or non verbal from one or more person do it. Communication will give a person bad or good impression to each others. Communication occurs in our daily life. For example, Lina and her friends discussed the assignment last Friday.
The next subtopic is the areas of human communication. There has 5 different areas of human communication.
The first areas of human communication is Intrapersonal Communication. Intrapersonal communication is when an individual has their own personal dialogue. An individual thoughts, feelings and idea are communicated to himself/herself. For example, "Why I am stressed now?", I asked myself.
The opposite of intrapersonal communication is interpersonal communication which is a conversation with another individual. Interpersonal communication is the process of sending and receiving information between two or more person. For example, I shared my story to my friends.
The small group & organizational communication is need to have at least 3 person. For example, a group of members do the presentation and assignments together among 5 members.That means someone interact with people settle problems and to create some creative and new ideas.The next areas of the human communication is public communication.
Public communication needs to have the ability of reaching many people (communication between a speaker and an audience). Audiences range in size from several people to hundreds, thousands and even millions. For example, Prime Minister is giving a speech to every Malaysian through the media, such as TV programme.
And the last areas of the human communication is mass communication. It takes place through the media outlets such as,newspaper, magazines, television, radio, film and video. For instance, a reporter report a big news (entertainment) via newspaper and TV programme.
Besides that, I also learn about the culture and human communication. Now, I know that different countries have their own culture (different culture). There are have some aim of a cultural perspective. (1) To know and realize how to communicate influence (between someone and others). (2) To recognize what is universal (true for all people) and what is relative (true for people in one culture and not true for people in other culture). (3) To communicate effectively in a wide variety of intercultural situations.
In addition, this subtopic is giving some deep impression in some parts. This subtopic is about the components of human communication. The components of human communication is divide two important ""subsubtopic"".The first part is including social psychological context, physical context, cultural context and the last is temporal context.
Based on my understanding, socio-psychological context is to look at human behavior as influenced by other people and the social context in which this occurs. (Based on the lecturer notes, socio-psychological context includes the relationships among participants, the roles that people play. It also includes the friendliness or unfriendliness, formality or informality, seriousness or humorousness of the situation.)
The next part is physical context. The physical context reflects the space around something and how I see it. The physical context exerts some impacts/influence on the content of my message as well as the form. In my opinion, the most important part is cultural context.
Culture context that might influence someone are how cultural norms dictated the treatment of women and men, ethnic minorities, the old, the young and people of different religions. The beliefs, values and ways of behaving that are shared by a group of people and passed down from generation to the next.
The last part is temporal (time) context. Temporal context is the time in history which the communication takes place.
The second important ""subsubtopic"" of the components of human communication is source-receiver, message, feedback and feedforward, channels, noise and effects.
The compound term source-receiver emphasizes that each person involved in communication is both a source (speaker) and a receiver (listener). Source include speak, write, gesture, or smile. Otherwise, receiver include listening, reading, smelling & etc...
Message include words, text, literature, body language, interpretive dance & etc...
Feedback is messages sent back to the speaker reacting to what is said. In my opinion, that I learn a word in the class is feedforward. I didn't know about what this word means before this class. Feedforward is a pretext to the context. For example, "I am sorry I have to tell you this, but......".
Channel includes vocal channel (spoken words), visual channel (hand gestures, body language...), olfactory channel (odors, smell...), tactile channel (touch).
Noise is dividing into 4 categories. Such as, physical noise, psychological noise, semantic noise and physiological noise. Physical noise is interference that is external to both speaker and listener. For instance, noise from van, train, bad handwriting, misspelled words. Psychological noise is mental interference in speaker or listener and includes impressions, perceptions, prejudice and so on. Semantic noise is created when the speaker and listener have different meaning systems. For example, in the medical doctor who uses "medicalese" without explanation.
So, the effects will occur. Effects includes intellectual effects, affective effects and psychomotor effects. Intellectual effects are changes in our thinking. Affective effects are changes in our attitudes, values, beliefs and emotions. Psychomotor effects are changes physical behavioral change.
Lastly, the Purposes of Human Communication are to help (maybe to help some people),
to discover, to relate, to persuade and to play.
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