In Participatory Sense-Making, authors Hanne De Jaeger and Ezequiel Di Paolo discuss the concept of sense-making, or the interaction between the human mind and the environment around it that results in “the creation and appreciation of meaning” (De Jaeger and Di Paolo 488). Specifically, it addresses what occurs when two individuals converse and interact in a way that generates this meaning together, what De Jaeger and Di Paolo identify as participatory sense making. They argue that when placed into a social context, this sense making process becomes a separate entity from the two individuals, one with “a temporary form of autonomy” (De Jaeger and Di Paolo 492). For De Jaeger and Di Paolo, the fundamental aspect of cognition is the sense-making process. “Organisms do not passively receive from their environments,” they state, but organisms …show more content…
This process requires action, the intake, distribution, and application of information with speech, motion, even biological processes. As De Jaeger and Di Paolo state, “movements are at the center of mental activity: a sense-making agent’s movements – which include utterances – are the tools of her cognition.” These tools serve to facilitate “a particular kind of encounter between a ‘questioning’ agent with a particular body…and a ‘responding’ segment of the world” (De Jaeger and Di Paolo 489). De Jaeger and Di Paolo took this phenomenon a step further in their essay, expanding on the process of sense making and putting it into a conversational context between two or more people. They state that when sense-making occurs between two
Is the exchange of ideas, words, actions or objects between two points . It is impossible to communicate with someone if you have no cognation or convention with. So that, without this condition effective communication will not happen
Often, we understand what is communicated to us, not by what we hear, but by what we see. This can be demonstrated in Albert Mehrebian’s Three Elements of Communication, that only 7% of what we understand comes from the words which are being used. 38 % is understood by the voice of the sender but an incredible 55 % of communication is done by body language. A tapping of the
Why do organisms respond to environmental factors? Organisms keep themselves in the most favorable conditions in order to survive. Pill bugs are members of the terrestrial isopod family. Terrestrial Isopods retrieve oxygen through their gills and live in dark damp environments. These organisms eat decaying plant and animal matter. Sow bugs, also known as pill bugs were tested to see how they react or respond to environmental factors. In this lab two different experiments were conducted. During the first experiment pill bugs were tested to see if they prefer a light environment or a dark environment. Throughout second experiment the pill bugs were tested to see how many of the bugs prefer an environment with vinegar or environment
Consequently, for stream of consciousness to be operative, the working of the character’s mind should
Frida Kahlo was born in Mexico City on July 7, 1907. Though she wanted many to believe that she was born in 1910, the year of the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution. Her father was a photographer of Hungarian Jewish decent, and her mother was Spanish and Native American. From an early age Frida's life would be marked by years of physical suffering. At the age of six she was stricken with polio, this left her right leg to appear much thinner than the other, as well as leaving her with a limp. Though she suffered dearly as a child, she was fearless and brave. She was also extremely intelligent.
Interpreting and mental processing. Cokely (1992), Taylor (1993), and later Russell (2002) illustrate in their research dissertations that the interpreting process, from the source message to producing an equivalent interpretation in the target language (ASL or English), occurs in nanoseconds. Researchers who assess the impact on message accuracy within an interpretation further support the need for preparation to assist in the production of a dynamic equivalent interpreted message. The less an ASLI/TiE knows about a subject results in more time spent on attempting to understand the content and meaning, thus impacting the target language message. Napier and Barker (2004), explain ASLI/TiE’s “decontextualize each original utterance to a certain extent so that it is a separate unit and can be recontextualized as a new utterance in the ‘flow of talk’” (p. 373) as part of the mental interpreted process. In doing so effectively the
It is evidently true that human beings communicate through more than one medium. When communicating people express ideas as well as emotions through facial expressions, tone and pitch, and gestures, which are non-verbal languages know as body language. Body language comprise of our non-verbal communication or kinesics, and just like the verbal communication, it is a part of our culture (Zhou, & Zhang, 2008). Gestures are conveyed through the use of our body, mainly through the movements of our hands and head. All around the world, people use gestures when they communicate, but what the gestures mean totally depends on the speaker’s culture, because just like verbal languages, non-verbal languages, such as gestures are not universal (Archer,
Authors Boris Blumberg, Donald Cooper, Pamela Schindler say, Interpretivist argue that simple fundamental laws are insufficient to understand the whole complexity of social phenomena. More important, however they claim that an objective observation of the social world is impossible, as the social world has a meaning for human beings and is constructed by intentional behaviour and actions. Intentional interpretivism approaches meaning as intentional states of individual minds, to be understood by locating them within the broader network of an individual’s other intentional states and in a concrete context of social practices and interactions with others.
People understand each other using cognitive skills, an example of this is mindreading. Mindreading abilities also referred to as the theory of mind (ToM) is acknowledging that other people have mental states, such as understanding that others have desires, motives, beliefs and intentions (Hewson, 2015a). This is generally an essential, undemanding skill for social interaction. Thereby, this essay will evaluate how psychology has helped to explain how people understand each other by firstly, explaining how different aspects of ToM have been studied. Additionally, Heider and Simmel’s (1944) study of geometric shapes will be explored to demonstrate how people interpret other people’s behaviour, even in animation. Subsequently, Autism
This means that the sender has to think and assess the circumstances that they are placed in before they start to communicate. The sender transmitting the message needs to think about what and how they are trying to say the message. For example, in a doctor’s surgery, an idea will occur as the practitioner thinks about how he/she will communicate with the current patient. This allows him to communicate more
As humans we communicate constantly, using both verbal and nonverbal communication and what we understand is determined by
This relationship is intensified by the spontaneous transmission of mental processes from one of these persons to the other - what we would call telepathy - so that the one becomes co-owner of the other's knowledge, emotions and experience. Moreover, a person may identify himself with another and so become unsure of his true self; or he may substitute the other's self for his own. This self may be duplicated, divided and
If we didn't, we would have no need to communicate: something like extrasensory perception would take its place. The following anecdote is a reminder of how our thoughts, assumptions and perceptions shape our own realities. As stated in the reading the head of the maintenance department explained the reason for inefficiency of the company was due to the lack of qualified maintenance people in the area.
Language is a cognitive function that most of us take for granted. It starts from early on, some say at conception, and it develops in complexity as we get older. It is an essential part of communication and without it its development would be greatly hindered. This natural process requires complex structures and reasoning, the bringing together of sounds and words to develop concrete ideas and thoughts. In this paper we will discuss the components of language and how it relates to cognitive processes.
Fairclough (1995) clarifies that discourse is not only written and spoken language, but it also visual part that has meaning (p.54).