CMN 1148 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Old Age, Standpoint Theory, Selective Perception

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 1148
• Professor: Sherry Ferguson

Document Summary

To understand the nature and characteristics of perception. To understand how perception influences how we see others. To learn how the characteristics of perception can have an impact on our communication with others. To gain insights into how to apply what we know about perception to our interactions at home and in social workplace settings. Perception is the process of sensing, interpreting and reacting to the physical world. In the process of perceiving, what captures our attention. Touch, taste, hearing, smell, sight, which interact with each other. Perception is: learned and backward looking, culture bound and racially biased, selective and self-serving, spontaneous, largely unconscious, and value driven, relative and context bound, mood dependent, completion seeking. Because we have learned through experience with the printed page to read black against white. Our past experience (backward-looking nature of perception) leads us to see the picture in a certain way.