Perception in Interpersonal Communication

I learn about perception in interpersonal communication class last week (September 17, 2009).

There are 5 stages of perception :
1. Stimulation (selective attention and selective exposure)
2. Organization (by rules, by schemata, by scripts)
3. Interpretation - Evaluation
4. Memory
5. Recall

Some implications of preceptions are
* Everyone can have shortcuts
* We can have preceptions if we have a consistence experience, we can forget if it isn't consistence
* Everyone perceptions are subjective
* Perceptions to different culture usualy ethnocentric because we think of their culture based on our culture

I learn about self-fulfilling prophecy which can affecting our perception.
There are Implicit Personality Theory, we usualy talk about good things together (halo effect : pretty,nice,rich,smart,friendly) and bad things together (reverse halo effect : ugly,short,stupid,poor).
Perceptual accentuation is condition where we see what we expect or want to see.
There are some people who is primacy (1st impression is important) or recency (last impression).
We want other people to do consistency in what they do like keep care to us, keep be nice to us, keep being our friend, keep etc.

Before we make a perception of others we should :
1. Consensus : similarity with others
2. Consistency : similarity over time
3. Distinctiveness : similarity in different situation
4. Controllability : ability to control their behavior

There are some attribution errors which are,
# The self-serving bias (blame on other people)
# Overattribution (over judging people)
# The fudamental attribution error (judge base on their internal factors)

We can analize perception, check the perception, reduce unceratinty, increase culture sensitivity (recognize differences, confront your stereotypes, adjust your communication, manage culture shock) to increase accuration of our perception.

After all interpersonal communication class teach me to socialize better than before.