Perceptual Aspect of Communication

The act of selecting, organizing, and interpreting

information is called perception in communication. This
process affects our ability to communicate because our
responses to various stimuli, whether objects or
people, depend on how we interpret those stimuli. Our
perception affects everything, especially the way we
interact with each other. People can communicate,
relay, and give feedback about their thoughts, feelings,
and desires through communication. The impact of
perception on communication involves how different
people can interpret the same message in very
different ways. Business people need to take the time
to carefully consider job applicants to improve their
ability to communicate successfully. They should also
avoid making hasty judgments about others based
solely on their first impressions.
social perception
the process by which a person uses the behavior of
others to form opinions or make inferences about those
individuals, especially about motives, attitudes, or
values their. Also known as interpersonal perception.
Examples
body language, hand gestures, facial emotions, and
voice tones. Understanding that others disagree with
what one said when one watches them roll their eyes is
a practical illustration of social perception.
Importance
One crucial element of social success and social
competency is social perception (including peer
acceptance and friendship). The understanding of social
norms, roles, routines, and scripts is necessary for
social competence in addition to social perception.

Social Perception Mechanism

By perception, we mean the process by which a person
filters, selects, organizes, and interprets stimuli to give
them meaning. answer. Perception does not necessarily
lead to an exact portrait of the environment, but rather
a unique portrait, influenced by the perceiver's needs,
desires, values, and inclinations. As described an
individual's perception of a given situation is not a
visual representation of the physical world; it is a
partial, personal construct in which certain objects,
selected by the individual for a major role, are
perceived in an individual way. It can be said that each
person perceives to some extent as a non-figurative
artist, painting a picture of the world expressing his
personal view of reality.
Social perception is usually divided into two
categories, namely face perception and voice. Voice
perception involves recognizing and distinguishing the
acoustic features of speech and the affective
information they convey, while face perception
deciphers affective information from other people's
facial expressions. Both categories are characterized by
the ability to read the emotional signals of others.
Overall, there is evidence that schizotypal individuals
are mildly impaired on social perception tasks,
although the nature of these impairments has not been
well replicated across studies. For
example,administered both the SPQ and the facial
affect detection task and found that positive schizotypy
correlated with misclassification of angry faces as
happy and on the unusual perceptual experiences
subscale. correlated with misclassification of happy
faces as angry or fearful. Other studies extended these
results and found that negative schizotypy is also
related to face affect . However, some studies do not
reproduce deficits in facial emotion categorization , but
these null results are limited by the possible emotion
perception tasks used may not be sensitive
enough. ..attempted to use a more sensitive measure
of facial emotion perception involving neutral stimuli
and found that schizotypals were worse at emotion
recognition than controls, more likely to classify neutral
faces as disgust. the relationship between disorganized
schizotypy and systematic bias for categorizing faces
with negative emotional valence. Schizotypal people
also have deficits in face recognition, showed that
people with schizotypal traits had more difficulty
recognizing themselves and other acquaintances. show
biases in face perception compared to those with low
schizotypy. These difficulties and distortions were
associated with positive and diffuse, but not negative,
schizotypes. Together, the evidence suggests that
schizotypals have a negativity in facial expression
recognition and that certain schizotypals may
misinterpret different emotions, which may be due to a
failure to integrate facial cues more broadly.
 These results have been replicated in auditory emotion
recognition studies. Although there are significantly
fewer studies overall, they consistently show deficits in
vocal affect recognition, the ability to recognize
emotion from speech, in schizotypal samples and those
diagnosed with schizotypal personality disorder and
very high risk of psychosis. One study partially
extended this finding by determining that positive
(specifically cognitive-perceptual) schizotypy was
negatively related to vocal emotion recognition
accuracy . Together, these studies and facial
recognition research show deficits in social perception
in schizotypy, mirroring results from similar studies in
schizophrenia. Some researchers have reported a
negative correlation between identifying happy
emotions and both negative and positive symptoms
found that facial expression recognition in
schizophrenia was poorer compared to controls for
fearful, disgust, and neutral faces, but not for happy or
angry faces, and poorer performance was specifically
associated with negative symptoms. As with facial-
emotion recognition, there is a general deficit in social
perception, but results vary as to which level
perception is most difficult and which symptom profiles
are most closely related.
The structure of social perception
We consider that the project of clarifying the structure
of perceptual objects is of primary importance for the
study of perception from at least three different angles.
First, clarifying the nature and structure of visual
objects will not only shed light on how we perceive
objects through our sensory modality, but will also
provide a possible "point of interest". can be helpful in
thinking about the difference between visual objects
and other sense objects. formula. In other words,
clarifying the structure of visual objects will also be
instrumental in breaking the vision-centredism that
permeates much of today's cognitive philosophy.
Second, clarifying the structure of perceptual objects in
general will shed light on the particular way in which
different types of perceptual objects are composed and
how to interact with sensory, perceptual, or Other
actions can help shape our perceptual trade with the
world. Third, and most obviously, to elucidate the
structure of perceived objects means to elucidate the
structure of cognitive subjective phenomena.
Social Perception barriers
The five barriers are selective perception, prejudice,
first impression, projection, and self-fulfilling prophecy.

Selective perception
tendency to prefer information that supports our point
of view.

Stereotype
a generalization of a group of people. they can be
accurate and serve as useful cognitive guides, but
inaccurate stereotypes are harmful because they create
false impressions that can never be checked or
changed. this can reduce team productivity and lower
morale.
First impression of confusion
occurs when we catch a glimpse of a person's behavior
when we first meet and deduce that this behavior
reflects the person's true self.
Projection
causes an incorrect perception of others. It is our
mistaken perception of common ground in our own
beliefs, values, and behaviors that causes us to
overestimate how many others share them. We
assume that others are just like us and that our beliefs
and values are consistent.
Self-fulfilling prophecies also known as the
Pygmalion effect interferes with social perception.
Sometimes our expectations affect how we stay in
touch with others to get what we want. If a manager's
first impression of an employee is the potential for
growth within the organization, chances are that the
manager will coach and mentor employees more,
giving them challenging tasks and help him achieve
success.

Name:Muntazim Muhammad
Group number ; GM22-05.
Submitted to; Prof . sholpan Ospanova