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What is perception?

What is perception?. Accumulation of experiences that cause us to become more aware, causing us to organize and interpret information Perception steps: Select Organize Interpret. Self-reflection. Conscious awareness of what you are doing and thinking at that moment Self-talk

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What is perception?

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  1. What is perception? • Accumulation of experiences that cause us to become more aware, causing us to organize and interpret information • Perception steps: • Select • Organize • Interpret

  2. Self-reflection • Conscious awareness of what you are doing and thinking at that moment • Self-talk • Be careful of negative self talk • Self-serving bias • Can derail you if you allow it • Impression management • Harmful if unethical

  3. Seeking feedback • Honest appraisal of strengths and weaknesses • From people you know and trust • Can’t ask for an honest opinion, then get angry • Do you truly want feedback, or agreement?

  4. Johari Window

  5. Mindfulness • Deliberately paying attention (conscious awareness) to your thought processes in a non-judgmental way • Used my communicators who do not respond instinctively but respond thoughtfully and think about what they are doing and recognize that they are, at all times, making choices, in how to encode and decode messages

  6. Reframing • Recasting a situation from the perspective of the other person, not just your own • Important to reframe with a positive viewpoint • Positivity can lead to success

  7. Perception Checking • A verbal request for feedback to determine whether your interpretation of someone’s nonverbal behavior is accurate • Need to use correctly • Consider what you are going to say

  8. Four basic steps of perception checking • Determine the exact behavior that triggered your perception • Identify your initial interpretation of the behavior but consider other possible interpretations • Describe (in open/non-accusatory way) the specific behavior you observed along with 2-3 possible interpretations • Ask the other person to verify/correct interpretations

  9. GROUPS • Taylor, Hillary, Lauren, Aaron,Bana • Victoria,Ericca, Eddie, Mike, Lisa • Jalonn, Matt, Taro, Amy, Cody • Emily B.,Mitch, Emily P., Spencer, • Nicole, Brittany, Jenna, Seth

  10. Discuss the following: • What was your first impression with our class? • After the speeches, how has that perception changed? • What new information have you learned that will help in future presentations?

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