1. COMMUNICATION, PERCEPTION, AND SELF Chapter 2 Recap/Lecture

2. What’s the relationship between the three? DISCUSSION QUESTION:

3. Communication + Perception + Self  Implicit Personality Theory (The Halo Effect)  Cara is friendly, intelligent and ______ Warm? Rude? Bright? Distant?  Attribution Theory  Maya is always grumpy. She never wants to socialize with anyone. When she comes into work and she doesn’t greet anyone, what would you think?  Erica is always very cheerful. She likes to crack jokes and make people smile. When she comes into the office one day and goes straight to her desk (without greeting anyone), what would you think?  Continual Process of Modification  Responding to Stimuli  If I meet a person on Facebook through a group message about reality television.

4. Three-Part Discussion/Application  Perceptions of Self (Self-Concept)  Others’ Perceptions of Us  Perceptions of Others  Application Exercise #1

5. Self-Concept  Permanent?  Self-awareness + Self-esteem  Symbolic Interactionism Theory (Mead)  Improving Self Concept  Have desire to change  Decide what you want to change  Set reasonable personal goals  Review and revise

6. Self-Concept  Self-fulfilling prophecy  Identity Management  Facework (Positive vs. Negative)  Working on Identity Management Timing Focusing on Present; Concentrate on the Message Self-Monitoring

7. e.g. positive qualities, flaws, worldview, goals, areas you want to improve upon, etc. Do you think others perceive you in this way? Friends? Strangers? What is your self-concept?

8. Perceptions  Process  Attending and Selecting Selective perception  Organizing Relational Schema Stereotypes  Interpreting  Retrieving Selective Retention

9. Perceptions  Influences  Culture  Sex and Gender Difference between the two? Gender Schema Gender Socialization Examples of Gender Roles

10. Perceptions  Influences  Sense of Self  Physical Factors (e.g. age, health) What if a 80 year old was in a night club?  Technology (how we use it; what it means to use it) What if I didn’t have a cellular phone? What if I had a flip phone? What if I didn’t have Facebook or Twitter?

11. Perceptions of Others  Watch the clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYQqQELODnA (Beginning and 7:20 mark) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYQqQELODnA  Think about your perceptions of both individuals communicating  How do those perceptions impact your willingness to communicate with them?  How do your perceptions impact how you would communicate with them?  How do you think their perceptions impacted how they communicated with each other?

12. Improving Perceptions  Understand Personal Worldview  Realize Incompleteness of Perception  Seek Explanation and Clarification  Distinguish Fact from Inference

13. Perceptions of Dr. Goldman  Initial thoughts? Why?  Have they changed? Why?  What if I sent you a Facebook Request, with the username: Adria “I’m so fly” Goldman  What if my phone rung in class and my ringtone was your favorite song?

14. Perceptions of Others  Application Exercise #1  Part A: Perceptions of friends  Part B: Perceptions from classmates (strangers?)

15. Your Perceptions of Others/Others’ Perceptions of You  Activity: Find out how others in our class perceive you. How do you perceive them?  Converse with 4 of your classmates  Ask how they perceive you; share how you perceive them  Mention if your perception has changed any from the first day of class  Be KIND; Constructive feedback  Note the type of communication (interpersonal or impersonal)

16. Did the perceptions of others change your self- concept? Revisit Self-Concept Notes

17. Shaping Perceptions  Technology; how do we use technology to shape others’ perceptions of who we are?  Application Exercise #2