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The first thing that I learned about perception was earlier discovered by a psychologist by the name of Max Wertheimer. He discovered that our body clearly separates images into figures

Chapter six “Perception and Individual Decision Making” I learned about the many different experiments of perception. “The ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses, the normal limits to human perception” (Oxford University Press, 2015)

In “Sex, Lies, and Conversation: Why Is It So Hard for Men and Women to Talk to Each Other?” by Deborah Tannen, a graduate with a Doctorate of Philosophy in linguistics, she writes about how both men and women need to learn the differences between their conversations. Tannen is not only a professor at Georgetown, but she also has written many articles and books on linguistics. The article is very effective to inform about how learning the differences in communications between genders is important.

A person’s thoughts, feelings, emotion, and beliefs often shape ones decision-making process. Other components, including perception, memory, introspection, and reasoning also assist in the formation of opinions, shape our knowledge, and transform an individual’s viewpoint (Feldman, 2003, p. 3). Perception is how one sees the world around them, the sights, sounds, smells, and other senses creates an understanding of the external environment creating a mental image and often places an attachment to it.

Perception is something that I find really interesting. One of the biggest reason is because it is created by all of our senses and by our memory of our experiences. These are all things that are slightly different for everyone and seems to create infinite possibilities. I am an amateur artist and while in an art class one of our takes were to create a drawing only using straight lines of any thickness. Some of the drawings started to take on different images based on the angle you were looking at the picture. Once I saw an image it was harder to try to see a different image since I already knew what to expect to see. This is an example of how the top-down process allows your memory and expectations to interfere with our perception of what was drawn on the page.

The participants in this study included 156 male and 204 female students between the ages of 18 and 26 (mean age of 19.2 years) from a large northeastern university who were taking a basic communication course (Bellur et al., 2015). Of the participants in this study, 76.6% were Caucasian, 8.3% were Asian, and 6.6% were Hispanic (Bellur et al., 2015).

Perception is “an apparently immediate apprehension or cognition of an object now present in a particular locality or region of space” (James 79). The most essential source of knowledge is experience, which originally comes from our senses. Perception is the process by which we construct a version of reality, ultimately “making sense of the world” through our experiences (or senses). However, a long held conflict concerning the limitations our senses, which essentially play a vital role in perception, has brought about the possibility of perceptual bias and selective perception. Many psychologists and philosophers believe this to be impossible, considering that "the capacity for perception is a basic capacity of an organ."

In the piece, ‘Are Different Patterns of Communication in Women and Men Innately Determined’, Louann Brizendine, argues yes they are innately determined while, Brenda J. Allen, argues no, women and men are conditioned through social interactions based on power and position. In the creation and maintenance of the gender system, communication and gender are viewed as very important by feminists because language is a very powerful agent.

Teri Gamble and Michael Gamble’s essay “Nonverbal Behavior: Culture, Gender, and the Media,” discuss how different cultures communicate in nonverbal ways. Cultures have ways that can communicate non-verbally and other communicate verbally, but not all cultures have the same cues, which implies that we can’t practice our own techniques of communicating amongst others for the motive that it wouldn’t make sense. The Gamble’s relate this to the different communication skills on how men and women communicate. Women display more of their nonverbal communication skills; Men use more of the verbal way of communicating. Therefore, many of the times Men and Women don’t comprehend each other simply for the circumstance that they aren’t expressing themselves

The book You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation, written by Deborah Tannen, is an analytical book offering scientific insights on the conversational differences between women and men. The book is copyrighted 1990 and is still read and widely talked about all over the world. Tannen is a Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Tannen is a graduate of the University of California-Berkeley and has a doctorate’s degree in linguistics. She is a highly creditable author who has written many books on social differences between women and

After learning about gendered communication, I began to scrupulously analyze my surroundings for situations, relationships, and such that either befitted or opposed the research shown about gendered communication. Upon analyzing my surroundings in this manner, I discovered that some situations described in the PowerPoint presentation were surprisingly similar to situations that I view daily in my own home.

Perception is the the process of organizing and understanding of the information, making us able to recognize meaningful objects and events. Our brain is able to make meaning of things through perception which organizes different shapes into a meaningful pattern. Perception isn’t on its own it works with our sensations to to detect different shapes. Our brains are able to concentrate on a certain object and make it stand out through everything else. This process is called figure ground relationship. This phenomenon happens with our other senses to like being able to concentrate on one specific kind of taste in a food that has many flavors. Overall in this lesson and the three topics mentioned above we learn about the process of the human body and the capabilities of the human brain and sense which is quite spectacular and is important to have an understanding of the psychology of the human mind and

Perception plays a huge role in someone’s life. “When a distinction is made between sensation and perception, sensation is frequently identified as involving simple “elementary” processes that occur right at the beginning of a sensory system, as when light stimulates receptors in the eye. In contrast, perception is identified with complicated processes that involves higher-order mechanisms such as understanding and memory that involve activity in the brain” (Goldstein, 1980, p. 7). It is simply the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the five senses. Perception aids us to navigate through the world, avoid danger, make decisions, and prepare for action.

The media has largely influenced how we view male and female. In this paper, I will talk about three medium and give my thoughts and opinion regarding gender in communication on each of them. The three medium I chose was a pick-up truck TV commercial, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0Ab2VT-g6s, the character Mulan from the Disney movie Mulan and the song “I’ll Make a Man out of You” also from the movie Mulan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSS5dEeMX64. I never realized until now how much of an impact the media has made on my views on male and female regarding gender communication. Media does not only give out entertainment, but it also in a way manipulates one’s way of developing their opinions, reaction, feelings and beliefs.

During the lecture concerning gendered communication, it was surprising that gender roles are different throughout multiple cultures, ethnicities, age groups, and social classes. It was scintillating to find out that in other cultures it is socially acceptable for men to have a close interaction with other men without being in a relationship. This was somewhat perplexing since men in American culture usually connect with each other at a distance, and men that do have close interactions with each other might be viewed or are homosexual.