Assignment—Perceptions

1) Define ‘perception‘ in your own words, including an explanation of the three basic steps involved in perception (selection,organization,interpretation). 

2) Define ‘self-concept‘ in your own words and explain how our ‘self-perception‘ is an important factor in our communication with others.

3) Identify the four primary Barriers to Accurate Perception of Self and Others and provide a brief explanation for each barrier to describe how each could affect our communication. 

4) When you react to others in a negative or volatile way showing anger, you aren’t using good communication skills or taking the time to make sure you are correctly interpreting what another person is attempting to communicate; your perception (or interpretation) of the message could be wrong. Describe some ways you could improve the reliability of your perception in similar situations.

should be a total of 200 or more words in paragraph format.