- Feb 2024
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Imagine yourself going through the process of preparing and practicing a speech, then delivering the speech, then returning to your seat, which concludes the scenario. Aside from this imagined exposure to speaking situations, taking a communication course like this one is a great way to directly engage in systematic desensitization. Almost all my students report that they have less speaking anxiety at the end of a semester than when they started, which is at least partially due to the fact they were forced to engage with speaking more than they would have done if they weren’t taking the class
This makes a lot of sense. I know before I do my speech, I'm going to practice it in front of my family. I know that practice makes perfect, and the more I go through it, both in my head, and out loud it will help tremendously. My fear is that I will forget the things in my speech that aren't written down. I think this communication class is going to help me work on my public speaking, and my confidence as well.
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Whether CA is a personal trait or not, we all occasionally experience state CA. Think about the jitters you get before a first date, a job interview, or the first day of school. The novelty or uncertainty of some situations is a common trigger for communication anxiety, and public speaking is a situation that is novel and uncertain for many.
I never knew that CA varied in different aspects of our lives like that. I know that my anxiety acts up at job interviews, public speaking, and if I'm going somewhere alone where I don't other people who will be there. I wonder if that's just my anxiety, or if it's CA.
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- Jan 2024
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Additionally, a student might be comforted to learn that he isn’t the only person who got a D and then not feel the need to try to improve, since he has company. You can see in this example that evaluations we place on our self-concept can lead to cycles of thinking and acting. These cycles relate to self-esteem and self-efficacy, which are components of our self-concept.
Whenever I got a bad grade and found out there were others who did bad, I would feel relieved. I would feel better about myself, thinking maybe it was as hard as I thought it was. And know to study better next time.
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As we have learned, perception starts with information that comes in through our senses. How we perceive even basic sensory information is influenced by our culture, as is illustrated in the following list:
I remember when I was younger and my moms friend was dating a guy from a different country. We went camping and she farted at the camp fire. Her boyfriend looks at her and asks if he did something to make her mad; she was confused and said no. He replied that in his country when a woman farts in front of a man its a sign of disrespect. I remember thinking this was ridiculous because I was young, now I understand that different cultures has different views.
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My friend’s mother, who is Vietnamese American, was attending a conference at which another attendee assumed she was a hotel worker and asked her to throw something away for her. In this case, my friend’s mother was a person of color at a convention with mostly white attendees, so an impression was formed based on the other person’s perception of this difference.
I never realized it before, but perception is basically stereotyping. I do this a lot as a server. I will be severing an older couple and assume I will not being tipped well because of my past experiences.
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Because of this tendency, we often have to end up being forced into or accidentally experiencing something new in order to create or discover new interests.
This happens to me all the time. If I forget my phone I have to listen to the radio in my car. I will change it until I find something I know. People always ask me if I heard specific new song, and I'll be like no, I listen to my apple music. It's funny the little things we can miss out on by being stuck in our old ways.
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“Finally! I said your name three times. I thought you forgot who I was!” A few seconds before, when you were focused on figuring out which kind of orange juice to get, you were attending to the various pulp options to the point that you tuned other stimuli out, even something as familiar as the sound of someone calling your name.
I do this so often and don't even think about it. I will be so immersed with what's going on inside my head that I won't notice that someone was trying to talk to me. I feel like I miss out on things that happen around me when this happens. But the opposite thing happens when I'm trying to study. All of a sudden I notice the sound of water dripping in my bathroom. Or I listen to peoples conversations in the library.
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that people do not always listen actively, and that people often do not speak up when they are unsure of instructions for fear of appearing incompetent or embarrassing themselves.
This reminds me of talking to my kids. I have to have them repeat everything I tell them, Otherwise they will say I don't remember that, or I didn't know what you meant.
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Becoming a more mindful communicator has many benefits, including achieving communication goals, detecting deception, avoiding stereotypes, and reducing conflict.
Becoming a more mindful communicator sounds a lot like being a mediator. Or like a family therapist.
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. Although this seems like a perceptible and deliberate process, we alternate between the roles of sender and receiver very quickly and often without conscious thought
It's funny how we use this model in daily interactions and don't even think twice about it. For example I'm a server, so I greet and talk to my guests. Ask what they want to eat and drink. Talk to them about their day. Talk to coworkers, and you don't even think twice about the communication aspect of it. It's just another day at the office, so to speak.
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While rhetoric does refer primarily to persuasive communication messages, much of the writing and teaching about rhetoric conveys the importance of being an ethical rhetor, or communicator. So when a communicator, such as a politician, speaks in misleading, vague, or dishonest ways, he or she isn’t using rhetoric; he or she is being an unethical speaker.
I took writing and rhetoric last semester and it was interesting to see what the word truly means. I think it's funny how people can take one word that means something and turn it into a word that means something completely different. You see it all the time with younger kids and their "slang". Like if they like something they say that's gas, or it slaps. When those are already words that mean something completly different.
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Talking Culture” during the “Talking Era.” During this 150,000 year period of human existence, ranging from 180,000 BCE to 3500 BCE, talking was the only medium of communication, aside from gestures, that humans had (Poe, 2011).
I didn't realize there was a period called the "talking Era". Its interesting to learn how other people communicated before words were really a thing. I have always wondered who made up words and the significance behind them. I just didn't realize it took thousands of years.
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