Chapter 5

1. Discovering Our Reality Lyudmila Aleksandrova Speech 104

4. Real or Virtual

7. Our world consist of the people experiences, and objects that influence us.

8. We become aware of the world around us through our senses. Sight Smell Hearing Feeling Taste The Perception Process

9. Perception is unique to each person No tow people view the world exactly the same No one can perceive 100% of all things at all times The perception process consists of three stages: Selecting – filtering mechanism Are you aware of your breathing? The temperature in the room? If you are hungry or tired? Sorting – organize and prioritize If you are attracted to, notice that you will have the necessary data to create a reality Interpreting – manipulate data to give meaning to the information that has been selected This process gives us an understanding of our environment, which we call our reality

12. Can affect what data we recognize

13. Physiological influences include:Senses Age Health Fatigue Hunger Biological cycle Selecting and Sorting Filters health

17. Are our first-hand informal learning activities

18. Expectation

19. Are perceptions that we expect to conform to what we already believe the actual event is

20. Affects our self-esteem and ultimately our judgment

21. Expectations are influenced by:Cultural differences Social roles General roles Occupational roles Self-concept

25. Stasis Stasis is the absence of change in one or more of our realities for some extended period of time It means “at rest”, and once we have reached stasis, we desire to maintain it Theory of communication claims that we communicate to stay on Stasis There are two kinds of Stasis Positive Upbeat people tend to view their environment optimistically Negative Negative people generally have a depressed view of their environment