COMN 3112 Study Guide - Final Guide: Social Perception, Cultural Learning, Emotional Expression
15 Jul 2016
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Self in conversation is face : your response is a statement of you. We instantly react to our face: feelings attached to it, you react to yourself and to other"s reactions to you. Meaning is not just in particular words but in a combination of words and non-verbals. Meaning emerges as a joint creation of both sender and receiver. As they constantly adjust to interlocking transaction of selves. Perception is a process of observing, selecting stimuli. But when our senses are stimulated we can"t perceive everything so we. Selective attention: we process only certain stimuli. Psychological sets as filters (emotional, cultural, and organizational pre- dispositions to respond. Previous experience meaningful to you: rank order messages. For thing perception: culture provides established patterns that people are socialized to select in order to reduce uncertainty. Person perception: is an active connection between people. Our perceptions of people are: simple, consistent internally and externally stable across time.
