COMM 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Ossian Sweet, Au Bon Pain, Gregory Bateson
11 Oct 2016
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The importance of perception perceptions they have about them (example: physical attractiveness . How individuals respond to people, objects and environments largely depends on the. Identities influence and we are influenced by perception. Perception can be engaged by a positive or negative trait in another person. Research reveals that when people perceive others as attractive they treat them better. Perception refers to the process of: selection, organization. Although these processes happen concurrently and unconsciously, researchers break the process down into discrete steps: selection. Definition the process of choosing which sensory information to focus on. Selection is required because we perceive more information than we can process. In every interaction, each communicator has a field of perception. In this field, some objects, symbols and words. Occurs when the individual, consciously or unconsciously, only attends to a narrow. Not a random process, what you select to focus on depends on range of the full array of sensory information available.
