Chapter-5: Disconfirmaiton & Confirmation

Disconfirmation and confrimation are of course, happening between 2 or more people.
How does it happen?

Disconfirmation - In this communication, we do not understand or do not try to understand the others situations, feelings and messages. We refuse or ignore.

Confirmation - is the opposite of disconfirmation. In this communication, we do understand the others messages and presence. We acknowledge.

Chapter-5: Verbal Messages

• 10/6/2014 ---->> No lecture! !   But..........  we continued our group presentation. 

So, we just started our class with the presentation for the third principle of Verbal message.

Verbal Messages << Chapter-5 >>

Verbal message is one of  the types of message. Then, we need to know what is message, first.

Message -- interaction among people by using verbal and non-verbal languages.

The Self ~~ Chapter-4

On 27th May, we learnt about "The Self".

After the lecturer has opened the first slide, we were asked what is the self.  The class was so noisy as we answered our own answers all together at the same time.  So, he said, "Shuu........., students!  students!"  

We all were silence  and we continued our lecture "The Self". "The Self", here means, the discussion and context of the individual and it also can be deemed as the way in which communication and interpretation of messages takes place within the individual. As simple, it is happening within individual such as talking, questioning, thinking to itself.

Chapter -3: ~~~ Listening ~~~

What is listening? ? and   What is hearing? ?                                                                            

When I heard those question, I was a little bit confused. I asked myself what is hearing again and again. It took me a bit longer. And the lecturer gave us answer.
Hearing is just receiving sound. For hearing, we don't need to pay attention or focus. Our ears just receive the vibration.
However, listening is the specialized process, a type of perception, by which we receive auditory signals. Moreover, Emmert (1994)  said " listening is the process of receiving, constructing meaning from and responding to spoken and/or non-verbal messages".  It can assist us to learn, play, influence and help.

Before I started learning this chapter, I just thought listening is just we listen what the others say. Actually listening has it's own stages. "There are 5 stages in the listening process."  That sentence took my attention. As I'm also one of the human living, I do listening in my daily life. I listened to my parents, lecturers, friends and so on. But, I didn't notice it's stages. So,  one question popped up in my mind. "What are the stages of listening process?"

Perception

Firstly, we need to know what is Perception. It is the impression that others give you and what you project to others. Perception is very subjective and one's perception cannot be the same with other's. Even they do have same perception, it is still differ in some things.

So, what do we need for the Perception Process?

As the first stage, Sensory Stimulation has to occur. We need to occur one of 5 senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell). Then those Sensory Stimulaion is organised in the second stage. There is two principle for this stage. Finding the Pole star in the sky popped up in my head as a example for Proximity principle. it is very easy to find Polaris if we see the Big dipper. We know that a group of 7 stars that doesn't change while the others do as the Big dipper.

Polaris and Big Dipper

Foundation of Human Communication

Under this chapter-1,  we have 5 main subtopics.

1. Communication 
2. Area of Human Communication 
3. Culture and Human Communication
4. Component of Human Communication
5. Purpose of Human Communication

After I had learnt subtopic-1, I noticed myself that I'm not good in communication as it is an ability to communicate well.