Chapter 3 - The self perception on others

[part one - 26.02.09]
Today we are thought in class about the Gantt Chart and self perception. We are asked to go back and prepare the Gantt Chart for our own blogs to show a clearer record of our work for the blog and etc.

For the self perception, it means how we see others in the style of talking, looking, behavior and etc. We also become aware of whatever happens to us, example, we smell something different, we go through the same noise and almost everything we perceive. Do we perceive almost everything around us? The answer is no as different people has different perception and depends on the situation. We do not perceive everything as our friend Julia goes for handsome guys and Teik Houng for pretty gals[its a joke]. Evon on the other hand, perceive how the way our class goes on. She perceive that there is ntg change between week 1 till now, and very suprising to see a lecturer very friendly. Buveni on the other hand thought all of semester 1 are friends as in known when secondary school because they can talk and make so much noise when she first time studying in Segi College. Later on she found that they are not friends during secondary school and they are just friendly.

What we use for perceiving others?
Our 5 senses.

What we perceive?
1.Whatever catches our attention
2.Yee Chern said experience

Miss Cheryl told us a story of hers when in Rakan Sebaya Camp. She is loud thats why she could make friends with almost all. She tell that there is this gal who go to the camp with short skirt. One of Miss Cheryl's friend commented on the gal saying that the gal is weird for she shave her legs. Miss Cheryl commented back and said she did shave her legs too. Her friend immediately commented and said that Miss Cheryl is different and she can shave her legs. [dominant people]
As for people who comes from small town, they usually perceive gals who wear short skirt are bad gals. All people has different self perception as we perceive only selective thing.

As for another assignment for our Interpersonal Communication, we are asked to go back and watch Star Wars III, Revenge Of The Sith [one of my favourite movie] to write out the dramatic changes of character[mostly Anakin Skywalker because he is the one who is expected to be the good guy turns into something nasty] and initial perception and does it change.


something to share with you all.. hope you like it..

We also did learn selective attention and selective exposure. Selective attention is purposely focusing your conscious awareness onto a specific stimulus or paying attention to whatever we like only. Selective exposure is a theory of communication, positing that individuals prefer exposure to arguments supporting their position over those supporting other positions.

As we group 4 are called to present the 4 steps of perception. Firstly was presented by KC on selection. We firstly select whatever we wanted to perceive for example, interest, skill, etc. The organization is the 2nd step of perception and was presented by Sanique and May Kwoon. After selection, we organize our thoughts and basically our self interest or skill to use it and talk to people depending on thier self interest and skill. Interpretation is the 3rd step of perception and it was presented by Claudia and Yike Heng. We interpret people more when they are closer. Sometimes people do interpret strangers if they have nothing to do. Basically, we interpret almost everything. For example, we can say if someone smiles at you, we interpret as if they are just being polite or show some interest towards you. We tend to interpret people more when they hang out more. Lastly the 4th step of perception was presented by Shakirin and Winnie. The negotiation is communicators influence each other's perception through communication. For example, they exchanged their stories during communication.

Lastly we are asked to go home to find self fulfilling prophecy and implicit personality theory to prepare for tomorrow's class.

-yike heng-