COMM 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Ethnocentrism, Stereotype, Fundamental Attribution Error

• School: Clemson University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 1500
• Professor: Marianne Glaser

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This chapter will help you: make the connection between perception and your communication competence, understand the three stages of perception and how they affect your communication. Identify seven reasons why different people may perceive the same situation in different ways: accurately interpret and check your perceptions to improve your communication competence. Perception: the process of _________, __________, and ___________ information to give personal meaning to the communication we receive. In other words, perception is the process of deciding what we are going to pay attention to and what we are going to ignore and then drawing conclusions. Perception and communication: perceptions are based on our _____________, perception gives meaning to our communication, perception ___________ how we communicate with others, perception is a complex phenomenon. The perception process 3 stages: _______, *exposure, *attention, *retention, ___________, *closure, *proximity, *similarity, ___________, *past experiences, *new situations, *opinions of others.