Chapter 2 Speech 1010 Notes
2.1 Perception: Definitions and Steps
Step 1: Selecting Available Data
Visual, Hearing (Auditory), Smell (olfactory), Touch (tactile)
Stimulus examples on page 40
Physical or psychological factors on the bottom on page 40
Selective distortion-process of an individual’s expectations or fears deceiving the senses into reporting a false stimulus as real
Step 2: Organizing Data Into a Usable Form
Laws of Organization (Proximity, similarity, closure)
Organization- discovering the recognizable patterns in the stimulus and recoding them in a form that is simple enough to remember and use
Proximity, Similarity, and Closure on page 42
Proximity- Objects that are close together tend to be grouped together
Similarity- Objects that look similar tend to be grouped together
Closer- Incomplete figures tend to be closed or filled in to represent a whole object
Ambiguous figures- Like face figures and like the Jesus word figure
Visual illusions- the dot illusions
Step 3: Interpreting the Data by Adding Meaning and Making Predictions
It will be over momentarily, or not, depends on how you see it. (Predictions)
2.2 Factors Influencing Perception
Physiological Factors-any impairment of a sensory organ
Example: blindness, deafness, ect.
Psychological Factors- How we perceive others and how others perceive us
Example: Can be different if the person is optimistic or pessimistic
Co-Culture Factors- Factors in different cultures or co-cultures in different society’s
Example: Sociogical imagination
2.3 Perception and Self
Self Concept- your overall understanding of who you are
Barnlund’s “6-Person” Concept
Self Orientation
Person 1: Natalie’s view of Natalie (Natalie’s Natalie)
Person 2: Audrey’s view of Audrey (Audrey’s Audrey)
Person 3: Natalie’s view of Audrey (Natalie’s Audrey)
Person 4: Audrey’s view of Natalie (Audrey’s Natalie)
Person 5: Natalie’s view of how Audrey sees her (Natalie’s Audrey’s Natalie)
Person 6: Audrey’s
Step 1: Selecting Available Data
Visual, Hearing (Auditory), Smell (olfactory), Touch (tactile)
Stimulus examples on page 40
Physical or psychological factors on the bottom on page 40
Selective distortion-process of an individual’s expectations or fears deceiving the senses into reporting a false stimulus as real
Step 2: Organizing Data Into a Usable Form
Laws of Organization (Proximity, similarity, closure)
Organization- discovering the recognizable patterns in the stimulus and recoding them in a form that is simple enough to remember and use
Proximity, Similarity, and Closure on page 42
Proximity- Objects that are close together tend to be grouped together
Similarity- Objects that look similar tend to be grouped together
Closer- Incomplete figures tend to be closed or filled in to represent a whole object
Ambiguous figures- Like face figures and like the Jesus word figure
Visual illusions- the dot illusions
Step 3: Interpreting the Data by Adding Meaning and Making Predictions
It will be over momentarily, or not, depends on how you see it. (Predictions)
2.2 Factors Influencing Perception
Physiological Factors-any impairment of a sensory organ
Example: blindness, deafness, ect.
Psychological Factors- How we perceive others and how others perceive us
Example: Can be different if the person is optimistic or pessimistic
Co-Culture Factors- Factors in different cultures or co-cultures in different society’s
Example: Sociogical imagination
2.3 Perception and Self
Self Concept- your overall understanding of who you are
Barnlund’s “6-Person” Concept
Self Orientation
Person 1: Natalie’s view of Natalie (Natalie’s Natalie)
Person 2: Audrey’s view of Audrey (Audrey’s Audrey)
Person 3: Natalie’s view of Audrey (Natalie’s Audrey)
Person 4: Audrey’s view of Natalie (Audrey’s Natalie)
Person 5: Natalie’s view of how Audrey sees her (Natalie’s Audrey’s Natalie)
Person 6: Audrey’s