Selves

  This week is week 4,so, Sir Anwari taught us chapter 4 'The Self". There are a lot of things that we can talk about the self. The self is very significant to everyone and they have to know about themselves. The self is not something that one finds. It is something that one create. The term self concept is a general term used to refer to how someone think about or perceive themselves. We can view self concept as the labels we constantly use to describe ourselves to others. Who you are is also reflected in the attitudes, beliefs, and values that you hold.

  Next, the self-awareness is having a clear perception of your personality, including strengths, weakness, thoughts, beliefs, motivation,  and emotions. Self-awareness allow to understand other people, how they perceive you, your attitude and your responses to them in the moment.

  For self-esteem, it is based on how you see yourself you will conclude, what your worth is and how valuable you are. Person of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others, they do not seek t prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. 

Lastly, self-disclosure is sharing with someone information which helps him or her understand you. Self-disclosure is most revealing when the sharing is in the present and least revealing when the sharing is about the past.

Different Perception and Listening carefully

Soon, Sir Anwari had covered two chapter in this week which is perception and listening. According to the perception, this chapter introduces to the role of perception and the role of the self in communication. From my view, perception is a basic component in the formation of a concept via the senses. There are 3 stages of perception process occurs which is the first stage are sensory stimulation occurs. Everything that we feel or we touch are came from the senses for example we can smell, hear, see, feel and so on. The next stage is organized the sensory stimulation. During this stage, two principles help to organise the sensory stimulate which are proximity principle and closure principle. The last stage, the sensory stimulation is interpreted-evaluated. Sir Anwari also showed the slides of some pictures which can gain the difference perception. For instance, a vase or twins, a young lady or an old lady, a duck or a rabbit.

  Next, listening is our most frequently used and least studied communication skills. I always consider hearing and listening is synonyms. After I learned from this chapter, I realized that they are quite difference. Hearing is the ability to hear while listening is to give attention with the ear. We must give our full respect and listen when the speaker is giving the lecture. That's what I always do when my lecture is making a speech.Sir Anwari gave us 20 simple words to memorise. After memorise all of the words, then we wrote down this 20 words on a paper. I only can memorised 15 out of 20 words. Again, every good conservation starts with good listening. Hence, we must listen careful what the people trying to say.

Foundation of Human Communication

 Yesterday was my first human communication class with Sir Anwari. During the class, I learned about the importance of communication in my everyday life. In my opinion, communication is crucial because it helps us to convey messages between each others. When we have communication with other people, we will also increasing our relationships. This kind of human relationships included family relationships and community relationships. Therefore, communication is essential. As understanding communication can improve the way people view themselves and the way others view them. An understanding of communication can help people succeed professionally. The components of communication are people, messages, channels, feedback, codes, encoding and decoding, and noise. Apart from that, Sir Anwari also showed us the slides with two pictures which is one is a bicycle and another picture is also a bicycle but less some components from the bicycle. Communication occurs in in intrapersonal, interpersonal, public, mass, and computer-mediated contexts. The number of people involved the degree of formality or intimacy, the opportunities for feedback, the need for prestructuring  messages, and the degree of stability of the roles of the speaker and listener all vary with the communication context.