EDS210H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Nonverbal Communication, Selective Perception, Standpoint Theory
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Human communication is defined as the process of making sense of the world and sharing that sense with others by creating meaning through the use of verbal and non-verbal messages. Perception: experiencing the world and making sense out of what is experienced. Interpersonal perception: the process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting one"s observations of other people. Three stages of the interpersonal perception process: Selective perception: process of seeing, hearing, or making sense of the world around us based on such factors as our personality, beliefs, attitudes, hopes, fears and culture, as well as what we like and don"t like. We see and don"t see things because on our ability to perceive selectively. Selective attention: process of focusing on specific stimuli, locking on to some things in the environment and ignoring others. Selective exposure: tendency to put ourselves in situations that reinforce our attitudes, beliefs, values or behaviours.
