CYC 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Interpersonal Communication
10 Dec 2016
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Three questions are fundamental to understanding others and becoming other- oriented in your interpersonal communication and your relationships. The sum total or who a person is; a person"s central inner force. A persons subjective description of who the person thinks he: self-concept or she is, attitude. Learned predisposition to respond to a person, object, or idea in a favorable or unfavorable way. Ways in which you structure your understanding of reality what is true and what is false: belief, values. Enduring concepts or good and bad, right and wrong. Are you conscious of who you are: three ways of being self-aware. Conscious of who you are and what you are doing: subjective self-awareness. Ability to differentiate the self from the social and physical environments. Ability to be the object of ones own thoughts and attention to be aware of one"s states of mind and that one is thinking. Uniquely human ability to think about oneself and use.
