Saturday, February 14, 2009
Week#4 My favorite concept
This was an extremely interesting chapter but the most interesting concept in this chapter was the Psychological model of communication. The reading states that "This model depicts communication a a psychological process whereby two(or more) individuals exchange meanings through the transmission and reception of communication stimuli." -(26) It discusses basic communication from one person to another. The model states that the two people communicating are the sender/receiver who encodes and decodes messages. They filter messages through a mental set. A mental set is a persons beliefs, values, attitudes, feelings and so on. It discusses how faulty communication occurs. It discusses how people's mental sets can be far apart that they decode or interpret messages different from how the sender intended it to be. This perspective is also called a laws approach to research. Communication scientist describe this approach as cause and effect laws that connect communication variables. I find that this communication model is true, 2 people can be in 1 conversation and be talking about two completely different things because the mind set is different. A lot of time their is faulty communication as stated before based on the fact that people have two different backgrounds and interpret things differently.
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You mention that two people can be having a conversation, but interpret it in very different ways because of their backgrounds. I completely agree this sort of overlaps with the Social Constructionist model too—each person’s perspective and way of interpreting things are shaped by their culture. While this can be applied to American society as a whole as compared to non-Western countries, this can also be applied to personal family backgrounds. I had this friend while growing up that used to gradually get louder and louder as she tried to get a point across, and I thought she was trying to start an argument. One day, I spent some time in her house and realized that this behavior was sort of a common theme! Their dinnertimes were crazy—whoever spoke the loudest and was the most aggressive was the one the heard. So, she wasn’t starting an argument at all, I just interpreted that way.
ReplyDeleteHello Nini! Do you think a person can ever truly understand what another person is saying? If so, why are there so many mis-communications that occur? If not, why do you think this is? What stands in the way of truly understanding another person?
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ReplyDeleteI can really identify with your post this week. I have had a lot of my friends talk to me and tell me about their problems with each other and sometimes things get resolved and some don’t. It hard to hear both sides of stories and try to be neutral because your going to draw your own conclusions about the situation. I think when people feel strongly about their beliefs they don’t hear the other side and try their best to out do or think the other opposing opinion. This is where people have the two different mind sets and clash. People interpret things differently because usually they want to be right and have other people see their point of view.
Good concept!