Chapter 2
Effective Speech Communication
Self Concept
Make a list of five noun
phrases that you would use to
describe yourself.
Self-concept
Our personal definition of ourselves…
 “Who am I?”
 We define ourselves through social
interaction
 Self-concept greatly influences the
communication we have with others
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Elements that effect
your list of (selfconcept) labels:
A set of labels You apply to Yourself
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Self concept = Our most fundamental
possession
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The answer to “Who am I?” can
and change
Social roles
 Physical appearance
 Ways we act
 Ways we think
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grow
Labels are stable
Our set of labels are relatively stable
 Labels that are fundamental to who you
are change very little
 What about you do you predict will be
the say ten years from now?
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labels that are subjective
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A set of labels that are subjective
Perception
of experiences > v.
< objective reality
 Your internal mirror reflects your
perception of things others do or say
Theories about SelfConcept
Reflected appraisal theory
How we think about ourselves is
influenced by what we think other people
think about us.
 The opinions that are most important to
us are those from people we consider
significant
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Reflected appraisal theory
Stop and think for a moment….????
So, do you LIKE all those people we
consider significant?
 Are you glad they have an influence on
you?
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Reflected Appraisal Theory
I am not who I think I am
I am not who you think I am
I am who I think you think I am
Reflected appraisal theory
Their relationship to us
 Their knowledge
 Their status in your
world
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Qualifies the
Validity of
oppinion
Social Comparison Theory
Our self concept is influenced by
comparisons we make of ourselves with
certain criteria that are valued in the
environment (society)
 This perception tends to be distorted
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Social Comparison Theory
High school students tend to have a
smaller environment.
 Or do they? Think of the influence the
media has on us.
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Individual Selectivity Theory
We have control over the factors that
influence our self-concept.
 We choose people whose voices and
opinions we will value and consider
significant.
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Perception quiz.pptx
Perception
Process by which we assign
meaning to sensory data.
Perception…
Five sense--data about the raw cues v.
our interpretation of those cues
 We want to believe that our perception of
raw cues is the truth
 The key to effective communication is
know that our own perception of truth
and other’s could be different
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We Select certain cues to interpret
We select particular stimuli as the focus
of our attention
 The most intense
 Those that are the most repeated
The same forces can influence how we
perceive people
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Select Certain Cues
Reaction to a strong physical
characteristic may be particularly intense
 Reaction to a repeated mannerism my
be particularly intense
Are you aware of your pet peeves?
How do you respond to someone who
trespasses on your pet peeves?
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We organize the cues that we have
selected.
We interpret cues that we have
selected and organized
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We interpret the cues we have SELECTED
 By using a HIGHLY PERSONAL system
 Based on the following:
OUR Knowledge
OUR past experience
OUR expectations
OUR assumptions about human behavior
OUR mood
WARNING!
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Our knowledge, experiences,
assumptions or may be greatly different
than that of our speaker or our audience