Friday, November 16, 2012
Ch 11 Concept
There were many concepts that stood out from chapter 11, but selective processing is one that I wanted to mention. This is the concept that is very noticeable in people, and I can tell by looking at my son, if he is using selective attention. When I am telling him something that he wants to hear, he listens carefully, but if I am lecturing him on say, "what not to do" his mind will be elsewhere. Selective reception also can be compared to simple daily conversations, for example if I go on and on about my day to my husband, and later when I notice he is not really listening, I'll ask him "what did I just say?" he will recall the last word he heard, and he will assign a meaning to that, pretending that it was what I talked about:) I use selective exposure a lot, because I believe that I don't have to listen to certain messages, and that is normal. Selective retention is when you only remember a small portion of any message, and this one can be a big problem, especially for students.
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It is most definitely interesting to see when people are or are not paying attention to you directly: They look elsewhere, they don't make direct responses, and they may make other responses. This sort of thing becomes even more apparent when they really don't pay attention, or they're simply not listening. Some people simply choose to ignore our messages, seeing as they don't like what we have to say. Additionally, they may take what we say as something different than intended, like with your husband. With "selective retention," though, everyone tends to only remember parts of different messages. They then assign intent or purpose to this partial message. I see this a lot with my father when he goes shopping. My mother tells him what we need, he hears part of it, and comes home with something completely different.
ReplyDeleteI also liked this section about selective processing. Sometimes when my husband is talking to me about something, if I get distracted he notices right away and would continue talking but would change the subject and start saying things out of the blue. I would continue saying aha, so he would continue telling me crazy, not making sense messages until I notice and acknowledge him. I liked your example about your son. Now that I remember, my little nieces and nephews do the same with my sister. Whenever she starts lecturing them, they start asking such interesting off topic questions, or all of a sudden something starts hurting.
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