Perception In Interpersonal Communication

Date: 27 Febuary 2009 (27.02.2009)

Day: Friday

Time: 9.00 a.m.-12.00 p.m.

In this class, a few of us were picked by Miss Cheryl to present about a few terms in the chapter of Perception. These are the terms. What influence us in our interpersonal perception? Implicit Personal Theory - A set of assumptions that a person make,often unconcious, about the correlations that occur between our personal trait. - It also helps us conclude that certain characteristics go with other different characteristic. - Example : We may perceive a shy girl to be an introvert or a quiet girl. Self- fulfilling Prophecy - A prediction that may influence our outcome. - Shaping our self-concept that will also influence our own behavior. - It may also lead us to perceive what we expect to perceive instead of what is really there. Primary and Recency - Our perceptions can be affected by primary and recency. - Our tendency to give extra importance to what occurs first (a primacy effect) may lead us to see what conforms to this judgment and to distort or otherwise misperceive what contradicts it. - Our first impressions often serve as filters, as schemata, for more recent information. In some cases, you may give extra weight to what occurs last (a recency effect). - The tendency to seek and expect consistency may influence you to see what is consistent and to not see what is inconsistent. Stereotyping - The tendency to seek and expect consistency may influence what we want to see whether it is consistent and to not see what is inconsistent. Attributions - It is the process which we go through to understand the behaviors of others particularly the reasons or motivations for these behaviors, are made on the basis of consensus, consistency, distinctiveness, and controllability. - Errors of attribution include the self-serving bias, overattribution, and the fundamental attribution error.