1. Dr. Holly Kruse Interpersonal Communication
Self
Dr. Holly Kruse
Interpersonal Communication

2. Perception
The process of experiencing the world and making sense of what you experience
Interpersonal perception: The process of selecting, organizing, and interpreting your perceptions of other people.

3. Stages
Selecting
Organizing
Interpretation

4. Selecting Select certain sensations on which to focus awareness
Principles of selection
Selective perception
Selective attention
Selective exposure
Selective recall

5. Example

6. Counting basketball passes
Example
Counting basketball passes

7. Organizing Assembling stimuli into convenient and efficient patterns
Constructs
Bipolar Categories
More “cognitively complex,” more constructs

8. Organizing Constructs often trigger schema
Schema: “A cognitive structure that represents our general knowledge about a concept or subject domain. Includes various categories and relations.”
Stereotypes = one kind of schema.

9. Organizing

10. Organizing

11. Interpreting Assign meaning to what we have observed
We go beyond what we see ­– we make more meaning of things than we perceive.
Because we want to understand, predict, and/or control.

12. Interpreting Inference Inducing from evidence,
Not the same as a fact, but we often take our inferences as fact
Attribution
Causal inference
When we observe a behavior and come up with explanation of why it happened

13. Interpreting Accuracy?
Although we often take them for fact, inference and attribution create many misunderstandings.
Why?