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Chapter 2 defines what your self-concept is and the role self-disclosure plays in human communication. The media and technology play a huge role in both of these processes.
Questions to Answer:
- What are at least two different ways that mass media and technology contributes to the shaping of our self-concept? Provide specific examples to support your experiences and observations.
- Does technology enhance or limit opportunities for self-disclosure? Why or why not?
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Chapter Two:
The Self and Perception
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Define “self-concept”
Define “self-awareness”
Define “self-esteem”
Discover the process of self-disclosure
Learn the nature and workings of perception
Explain the strategies of impression
management
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Who you are and how you see yourself influence
not only the way you communicate but also
how you respond to the communication of
others.
Self-concept
Self-esteem
Self-awareness
The image you of who you are, it’s how you
perceive yourself.
Sources of Self Concept
Other people’s images of you
Social comparison
Cultural teachings
Self-interpretations and self-evaluations
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Self-awareness
Who am I?
Basic to all communication and is achieved
when you examine several aspects of
yourself as they might appear to others as
well as to you
Johari window is a tool that measure what we
know and don’t know about ourselves
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Your
Four
Selves
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Listening to others
Increasing your open self
Seek information about self
Dialogue with yourself
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Attack self-destructive beliefs
Beware of the Imposter Phenomenon
Seek out nourishing people
Work on projects that will result in success
Remind yourself of your successes
Secure affirmation
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A type of
communication
in which you
reveal
information
about yourself
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The
Gain self-knowledge
Improved coping abilities
Communication enhancement
More meaningful relationships
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Rewards of Self-Disclosure
Better self-knowledge
Stronger coping abilities
Improved communication
Meaningful relationships
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Personal risks
Relationship risks
Professional risks
Remember…like all communication, self-
disclosure is irreversible. You can not self-
disclose and then take it back.
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Things to consider:
The motivation
The appropriateness
The disclosures of the other
person
The possible burdens self-disclosure might
entail
Assume it may be repeated
Realize it may be used against you
May lead to a loss of power
Disclosing a disability is your decision
You are not obligated to disclose based on a
colleague’s decision too
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Guidelines for Facilitating and
Responding to Others’ Disclosures
Support and reinforce the discloser
Be willing to reciprocate
Keep the disclosures confidential
Don’t use the disclosures against the
person
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Resist pressure to self-disclose if you are
uncomfortable
Do not be pushed into disclosing
Be indirect and move to other topics
Be assertive in protecting yourself
Perception is a continuous series of
processes that blend into one another. For
discussion purposes, we divide these into
five stages.
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First stage: our sense organs are stimulated
Selective perception
Selective attention
Selective exposure
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At the second stage, you organize the
information your senses pick up. There are
three rules that we tend to follow:
– Proximity: Physical closeness
– Similarity: Items that look alike
– Contrast: Opposite of similarity
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Subjective
Influenced by experiences, needs, wants,
values, expectations, physical and emotional
state, gender, and beliefs, rules, schemata,
and scripts
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Memory (Stage 4)
– Storage of
stimulation
– “Cognitive tags”
Recall (Stage 5)
– Reconstruction
– Inaccuracies
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An academic term for what we do everyday.
We use a variety of processes to manage
these impressions, called impression formation
processes.
Self-Fulfilling prophecy
This occurs when a prediction becomes true
because you act as if it were true.
1. Formulate a prediction or belief
2. Act towards situation as if belief were true
3. Because of your actions, belief becomes
true
4. Your observed effect reinforces the belief
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Primacy-Recency
Primacy effect – What comes first exerts the
most influence on your overall perception
Recency effect – What comes last exerts the
most influence on your overall perception
Be careful of relying to heavily on first
impressions
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Stereotyping
One of the most common shortcuts in
perception
Fixed (and often distorted) impression of a
group of people
Causes us to overlook individual
characteristics and see people solely based
on the stereotype
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Attribution of Control
Process of explaining why someone acted as
he or she did.
Three potential errors:
– Self-serving bias
– Overattribution
– Fundamental attribution error
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Increasing Accuracy in Impression
Formation
Analyze impressions
– Recognize your own role in perception
– Avoid early conclusions
– Beware of the just world hypothesis
Check your perceptions
– Describe what you see/hear and seek
confirmation
Reduce your uncertainty
Increase cultural sensitivity
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Impression Management: Goals and
Strategies
Also called: self-presentation or identity
management
Refers to the processes you go through to
communicate the impression you want other
people to have of you
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Affinity-seeking and politeness
Credibility
Self-handicapping
Self-deprecating
Self-monitoring
Influencing
Image-confirming
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- PowerPoint Presentation
- Slide 5
- Your Four Selves
- The Rewards of Self-Disclosure
- Guidelines for Facilitating and Responding to Others’ Disclosures
- Increasing Accuracy in Impression Formation
- Impression Management: Goals and Strategies
Chapter Two Goals
The Self in Human Communication
Self-Concept
Self-awareness
Growing in Self Awareness
Self-Esteem
Self-Disclosure
Rewards of Self-Disclosure
Dangers of Self-Disclosure
Guidelines for Making Self-Disclosures
Self-Disclosing at Work?
Your Rights in Self-Disclosure
Stages of Perception
Stimulation (Stage 1)
Organization (Stage 2)
Interpretation-Evaluation (Stage 3)
Memory (Stage 4) and Recall (Stage 5)
Impression Formation
Self-fulfilling Prophecy
Primacy-Recency
Stereotyping
Attribution of Control
Strategies of Impression Management
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