Perceptions

Different social, professional and cultural contexts may affect relationships and the way people communicate due to of a lack of understanding or knowledge of one another’s background and culture. This could be through their race, religion, ethnicity or where they come from. Each one of these can have similar or very different ways to communicate. For example

The harmony of the existing cultures is crucial for the survival and success of any communication and ignoring these aspects may challenge the communication. For example, speaking to employees in Middle East is quite different from Switzerland; talking about personal things is acceptable by Swiss. Individuals who move to other countries unprepared for cultural differences may face unpleasant frustration when communicating. However, those who try to learn other cultures are likely to avoid individual tragedies. For example, Americans doing business in Mexico need to learn the local language to enhance interactions with the locals.

Have you thought of someone’s culture as weird? Have you thought that you are completely different from them? If so, what prompts us to make that assumption. Culture is a very good reason for this. So, to what extent does one’s culture inform the way one views others and the world? Culture informs a person on the way others are and the world.

The first point in my theory is that you can better your skills as an interpersonal communicator by better understanding your own culture. DeVito states that there are. “several major cultural distinctions that are crucial for more effective communication” they are: individualism or collectivism, high or low context, high or low power distance, masculinity or femininity, high or low ambiguity tolerance, long or short term orientation, and indulgent or (p. 34). To be able to understand your or anyone else’s culture you must be able to understand the ways that these things affect communication. Once you understand the ways that you are oriented in these seven categories due to enculturation you can understand how you communicate and become a more effective

Perception varies from person to person. Different people perceive different things about the same situation. People’s behavior is based on their perception of what reality is, not on reality itself. It is our personal perception of that reality which shapes and directs our behaviour and not some objective understanding of external reality. For example, if one person on a hillside perceives that it is cold, they will reach for their sweater. If the person standing next to them perceives that it is warm, they will remove their sweater. Thus behaviuor is a function of the way in

An individual's surroundings affects their daily interactions, even though it could be blinded by their own beliefs. Using personal experience, readings, and texts supports the claim that culture has a big impact on how the world is perceived through different lens. Within these pieces of evidence, ethnicity and tradition affects their destinations and method living. In “An Indian’s Father’s Plea” by Robert Lake there are several examples of how you grow up effects how you see the world.

The four barriers to accurate perception of self and others is physiology, culture, social roles, and cognitive ability. Physiology someone mental state affects their perception of a situation. Culture in some sense you can agree that its the way you was brought up and how people around you did things, you tend to do things you see others around you doing. Social Roles are related to culture but its mostly being able to live up to something, setting goals or doing what you think people expect you to do. Cognitive Ability is basically your strong suit or what your best at

These senses are the avenues by which the stimuli around us can be absorbed and translated into our perception. However, certain characteristics of sense perception as a basis for attaining knowledge about our reality can raise problems. This is because it is subjective and relative; it varies with condition and can be external to the object perceived.

Learning the verbal and nonverbal way that people communicate in one’s environment is the key to one’s success. When one faces the challenges that the opposite sex can present to each other, and learn to communicate effectively with one another one can begin to see the world from a different perspective. This different perspective can oftentimes be a better way of viewing things then the same old way that has always been used. In the same respect gaining an appreciation and understanding of the way other cultures communicate can give one another tool to use when tackling problems. Sometimes good old American ingenuity might not be the answer. Being able to understand another culture may bring in fresh ideas that have

The World of Perception is a book that relates how individuals distinguish the world in association to the self, others, and society. Written by Merleau Ponty, the World of Perception contradicts the classic understandings of society and engages the various abstractions of the world. Perception shows how people observe the world and what is within it. Perception is how one may sense one thing in the world, while another person may sense something else. Perception is an important concept because it is the basis of how humans view themselves and the world around them. For self-understanding, human understanding, and the understanding of society, perception plays a key role in how one understands the world. In the film Wild, originally a

There are many ways that Earth’s billions of people can be culturally different. A culture consists of many cultural components that range from one group to the next. Some people think culture is mostly about ethnic appearance; I, on the other hand, relate to culture through family, interests , and talents.

Our perception, or the way we interpret neutral sensory stimuli, can have a drastic effect on how see things. Dunning and Balcetis (2013) give many examples of this, such as a perceiver’s desire predicting what they interpret from an ambiguous stimulus, or participants estimating desirable objects closer than undesirable objects. This idea has important implications for the way we interact with other people. The way these participants arrived at their conclusions is an example of an unconscious process. A conscious process is one that is slow and effortful, but gives us more power to make accurate decisions. An unconscious process

Two observers viewing the same object at the same position under the same physical circumstances do not necessarily have identical visual experience. Although the images on our retinas form part of the cause of what we see, another very important part of the cause is the inner state of our minds or brains, which will itself depend on our cultural upbring, our knowledge and our expectations, and will not be determined solely by the physical properties of our eyes and the scene

The second example of how everyone sees the world differently is when the snake saw the cat the snake was sensing the heat of the cat walking by. How this tells me

Our society is comprised of groups of people who view and act on life situations either in a collective or an individual perspective. These orientations are established in the different cultures of the world, and therefore, one acquires the characteristics as he or she grows up (Brewer & Chen, 2007). We are more likely to avoid cross-cultural miscommunication by understanding the differences in school performance, dating and marriage, and our definition of happiness.