Day: Thursday
Time: 5.00pm - 6.30pm
Today, I learn about "What is "Perception" in human communication class. Perception is our sensory experience of the world around us and involves both the recognition of environmental stimuli and actions in response to these stimuli. So, different person can have some same perception and different perception.
The next subtopics is the perception process. There has 3 stages in the perception process. Sensory stimulation occurs in the first stage of perception process. The sensory stimulation involves touch, smell, hear, taste and sight.
In the second stage, the sensory stimulation is organized from the two principles (proximity principle and closure principle). Proximity principle is things that are near each other seem to be grouped together. Closure principle is things are grouped together if they seem to complete some entity. Our brains often ignore contradictory information and fill in gaps in information.
In the third stage, the sensory stimulation is interpreted-evaluated (subjective process). Our interpretations-evaluations not only based on the external stimulus. Also involves our past experience, needs, wants, value system, emotional state, expectation and etc.
Furthermore, the lecturer also taught us about the processes influencing perception. There are 5 processes influencing perception.
The first processes influencing perception is implicit personality theory. An individual have own opinion about someone's characteristics that say which characteristics of an individual go with other characteristics. This is also known as the halo effect. For instance, if I believe my friend has some positive qualities, I will likely to infer that she or he also possesses other positive qualities. On the other hands, reverse halo effect will lead us to perceive those who are unattractive, such as dishonest, antisocial and sneaky.
The next processes influencing perception is the self-fulfilling prophecy. It is a prediction was made. This happens because our beliefs influence our actions. For example, if a woman thinks that her husband will leave her for another woman, she will act in ways that will directly or indirectly cause her belief to come true.
Primacy- recency use early information to provide ourselves with a general idea of what a person is like. Then use later information to make this general idea more specific. The first impression we make is likely to be the most important through this first impression others filter additional information to formulate a picture of whom they perceive we to be.
Consistency is the tendency to maintain balance among perception or attitudes. An individual expect certain things to go together and other things not to go together.
Attribution is the process through which you try discover why people do what they do and even why you do what you do. There have some 5 principles of attribution. There are consensus, consistency, distinctiveness and controllability.
No comments:
Post a Comment