Jims Concept
Jim and His Father
Heather BucklewKaplan University
CM 206
Professor Olson
November 5,20141) How would you describe Jim’s self-concept?
I noticed that Jim has a negative image about himself. Jim believes that his father has a unrealistic expectation of him.
2) How is self-concept affecting the interaction? Is it helping it? Hindering it? Explain using concepts from the text.
Jim having a negative self-concept is really bothering him. While his dad is telling him he isn’t trying hard enough he actually thinks that no matter how hard he does study he still wont do well.
3) Using the process of human perception starting on page 64. Explain the situation from your perspective as a student.
Selection-“We attend to certain stimuli based on a number of factors” (Wood, 2012, p.65). “We notice things that stand-out, because they are larger, more intense, or more unusual than other phenomena” (Wood, 2012, p.65). When I read this and see the video I see that Jim’s father isn’t seeing that Jim is actually trying hard to get good grade, he is just having some hard time..Organization-“Once we have selected what to notice, we have to make sense of it” (Wood, 2012, p.66). “Prototypes, personal constructs, stereotypes, and scripts are cognitive schemata that we use to organize our perceptions of people and phenomena” (Wood, 2012, p.66). I seen in the video that Jim knows that he is actually going to need to study a lot harder and more to bring his grade up to make his dad happy.
Interpretation-“Is the subjective process of explaining our perceptions in ways that makes sense to us” (Wood, 2012, p.70). Attribution “is an explanation of why something happened or why someone acts a certain way” (heider, 1958; Kelley, 1967; Manusov & Spitzberg, 2008). I think that Jims father is being hard on Jim because his dad paid for college on his own and it was not hard for him to get good grades. Attributional error-“Researchers have identified a common error that people make
Heather BucklewKaplan University
CM 206
Professor Olson
November 5,20141) How would you describe Jim’s self-concept?
I noticed that Jim has a negative image about himself. Jim believes that his father has a unrealistic expectation of him.
2) How is self-concept affecting the interaction? Is it helping it? Hindering it? Explain using concepts from the text.
Jim having a negative self-concept is really bothering him. While his dad is telling him he isn’t trying hard enough he actually thinks that no matter how hard he does study he still wont do well.
3) Using the process of human perception starting on page 64. Explain the situation from your perspective as a student.
Selection-“We attend to certain stimuli based on a number of factors” (Wood, 2012, p.65). “We notice things that stand-out, because they are larger, more intense, or more unusual than other phenomena” (Wood, 2012, p.65). When I read this and see the video I see that Jim’s father isn’t seeing that Jim is actually trying hard to get good grade, he is just having some hard time..Organization-“Once we have selected what to notice, we have to make sense of it” (Wood, 2012, p.66). “Prototypes, personal constructs, stereotypes, and scripts are cognitive schemata that we use to organize our perceptions of people and phenomena” (Wood, 2012, p.66). I seen in the video that Jim knows that he is actually going to need to study a lot harder and more to bring his grade up to make his dad happy.
Interpretation-“Is the subjective process of explaining our perceptions in ways that makes sense to us” (Wood, 2012, p.70). Attribution “is an explanation of why something happened or why someone acts a certain way” (heider, 1958; Kelley, 1967; Manusov & Spitzberg, 2008). I think that Jims father is being hard on Jim because his dad paid for college on his own and it was not hard for him to get good grades. Attributional error-“Researchers have identified a common error that people make