Human Communication Diary-3

This week, Sir Anwari entered Chapter 4, "The Self". But, what is "The Self"? In my opinion, self are soul, ego, personality and individual. Self consists of a person's conscious and unconscious aspect, their personality, thoughts and feelings. All of these aspect combine together into the person's core identity. "Self" can also be deemed as the way in which communication and interpretation of messages take place within the individual. Through this lesson, i know that area of "self" can be explored into self-concept, self-awareness, self-esteem and self-disclosure.

Firstly, self-concept is describe about how we feel and think about ourselves. Besides, it is the image that we have of ourselves. There are four factors that can affect our self-concept such as social comparison, other's image of you, self interpretations and evaluation, and cultural teaching. Secondly, we learn about self-awareness. Self-awareness is understanding our own personality, behaviors, habits, emotional reactions, motivations and thought processes. In fact, having more self knowledge not only help us make better choices, but also help us understand our reactions to others. So, we need to grow our self-awareness as we can listen to others, seek information about ourselves and increase our open self.

Thirdly, we learn about self-esteem. Self-esteem is confidence or the level of trust or assurance to yourself. Self-esteem is depends on how much we are confident with our image, beliefs, potrayal in public with peers. Sir Anwari also tell us that low self-esteem can cause people to be negative, lack motivation, and be moody. Those with higher self-esteem like themselves, so they expect others to like them, too. Finally, the area of self also can widen into self-disclosure. Self-disclosure is an act telling other about things that they wouldn't know about you. Through self-disclosure, we can gain more confidence and be more truthful about ourselves. Although it may lost of friends and trust, but we can living without regret.

In a nutshell, "The Self" help me to discover that who am I and how I see myself influence not only the way I communicate, but also how I respond to communications of others. 

Human Communication Diary-2

This week, Sir Anwari taught us about 'Perception' and 'Listening'. Perception is the impression other give you and what you project to others. I really felt this chapter is very interesting because everyone have their own perception when we see a same picture. No one person can have the same perception of another perception but even if they do, something may differs.

The classic optical illusion that shows our perceptions can be very different from other’s perceptions. Some may see a lady looking back, some may see an old lady. I can see both.

Perception process occurs in three stages. Firstly, sensory stimulation occurs. In other words, it is the way you interpret data around you. The data could come from sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing.Secondly, sensory stimulation is organized and finally sensory stimulation is interpreted-evaluated. Our interpretation-evaluations are not based on external stimulus but based on our past experience, needs, wants emotional state and so on. 

Besides, processes of perception influencing perception. One of the factors that influence the perception is implicit personality theory. In this theory, there are two types of effects which are halo effect and reverse-halo effect. A halo effect or reverse-halo effect can also alter our perceptions. The halo affect assumes that if a person has one trait we like, that all traits must be desirable. For example, if a girl is helpful, we will tend to think she is also kind and caring.In contrast, the reverse halo effect is if we find an undesirable trait in someone, we assume all traits are undesirable. For example, if a boy look lazy, we will tend to think he is boring and unpleasant to hang out. In fact, perception is one of the most important element in communication.So, we need to make perception more accurate through analyze impressions, check perceptions, reduce uncertainty and increase cultural sensitivity.

Apart from this, Sir Anwari also tell us about the importance of listening in communication. Listening defined as the process of receiving, understanding, remembering, evaluating and responding to verbal and/or nonverbal message.

Listening will proved a crucial communication component and serve both taste and relationship function. It builds stronger relationships in creating a desire to cooperate among among people because they feel accepted and acknowledged.

In the class, Sir Anwari  also tell us that in a global environment in which people from very different cultures worked together, it's especially important to understand the ways in which cultural differences can influence listening. Four of listening influences include language and speech, nonverbal behaviors, feedback and credibility.

 In a nutshell, listening is important because listening every good relationships and conservation start with listening. Listening is the most powerful form of acknowledgement.It creates acceptance or openness and minimize confusion and misunderstanding.

Human Communication D-1

Communication is simply the act of transferring information from one place to another. Before I attend human communication class, I am so worry about that because it is so difficult for me to communicate with the strangers. 

Yesterday is my first human communication class with my lecture, Sir Anwari. He said that human communication is very important to everyone because the ability to communicate well is important to personal and professional success. It can help us to be an effective communicators of the future for the career in communication field.

Besides, the areas of human communication can be categorized into intrapersonal, interpersonal, small group or organizational, public and mass communication. I felt so interesting that talked to myself can be one kinds of the communication. Sometimes, I talked to myself to make me become more confidence and i always believed that ' my destiny in my hand'.

On the other hand, I found that there are many types of communication context such as social psychological context, physical context, cultural context and temporal context. I felt that cultural context is very fascinating because the beliefs, values and ways of behaving that are shared by a group of people and passed down from generation to next. Besides, different countries have their different cultures and different body language.

The components such as sender, message, channel, receiver, feedback, noise and effect is important to human communication. 

The components of the object is very important because every object have its own components . If one of the components of a object was lost or broken, it would not function well. 

Although it is my first class, but i felt that human communication is interesting and I am very excited for the next class.