[CMN1148] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (34 pages long)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 1148
• Professor: Sherry Ferguson

Document Summary

Repeated exposure to unrealistic media images often result in 3 step process: we underestimate the weight of media personalities and overestimate our own body weight, these unfavourable comparisons lead to body image disturbance or dissatisfaction, body image disturbance leads to lower self esteem and sometimes obsessive dieting and eating disorders. Perception: process of sensing, interpreting and reacting to the physical world. Learned and backwards looking: we learn through experience and based on this experience we expect things to be a certain way. Cultural bound and racially biased: biases occur in subtle ways, people don"t try as hard to help someone who is a minority, you can more easily identify with someone of your own race. Value driven: our values influence our perception of what is important. In the process of perceiving, what captures our attention. Vehicles for perception: our senses interact with each other. We process the negative more deeply than the positive (ex.