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For today's class, we had to bring in our baby picture and the professor distributed the baby pictures to the class. We had to create a background and a story for the baby in the photos. Basically from this mini group work, the professor wanted to explain to us about perception and how perception affects our interpretations. And that interpretation or assumption can be completely incorrect or correct because of our open-mindedness or the lack of it. Also ethnocentrism can have a positive or negative impact on a person's communication because a person can talk about their culture with pride, but they can also belittle or degrade other cultures that are different from theirs.
I also learned about the four different ways of communication. The psychological aspect of communication is when there is communication between the sender and reciever, which can be done verbally or nonverbally. Also the communication is effective or ineffective because of the environment. Social constructionist is common amongst socialist, the communication is not based on an individual but it's about communicating to make the world a better place for everyone. Pragmatic communication is more strategized, the communication is manipulated or planned out so that the reciever to react in a certain way. Also there is a cultural study in relations to communication, how a culture or language can affect communication. The professor also explained about how we are meaning making machines, we try to make a meaning from everything in our lives and this affects our communication. We were to lose meaning in speaking in public, we may be able to become better communicators because we don't care for it and we get over the fear of it. We also formed groups for the group project, hopefully we'll be able to work together and create a great presentation.