COMN 3112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Stereotype, Wok, Attribution Bias

• School: York University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMN 3112
• Professor: Dalton Kehoe

Document Summary

The process : the way we see things : perception, the way we think about the things we see : cognition, how we feel about them. How do we (cid:498)see(cid:499) the world around us: the (cid:498)inside(cid:499) or intrapersonal aspect of the interpersonal communication model. A process of : observing, selecting stimuli, organizing them, making interpretations, but when our senses are stimulated we can"t perceive everything. Selective perception: selective attention , we process only certain stimuli, we filter out others, psychological sets as filters (emotional, cultural and organizational pre-dispositions to respond) The bases for selective attention and filtering: selective attenttion, previous experience - meaningful to you, rank order messages, intensity, novelty, closure : create patterns, proximity, resemblance. Perception : consistency and stability: people are complex, our perceptions of people are , simple, consistent - internally and externally stable across time (like the way we see things!)