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LO-2.1: Identify the ways in which we select information from the environment to form perceptions.

Video: Selective Perception

Similar to the Monkey Business Illusion, video demonstrates various ways optical illusions play tricks on our perception.

 

LO-2.2:  Describe how we organize and interpret information to make sense of the world.

Web Link: The Negative in Positive Stereotypes

Why positive stereotypes have their downsides

Audio: The Stereotype Threat

How a female professional poker player is stereotyped by her male colleagues

 

LO-2.3:  Describe the factors that lead to differences in perception, and how those differences influence communication.

Video: Self Image

Gothman’s belief that we present ourselves as an act to all people.

Web Link: The Critical Media Project: LGBTQ

Media portrayals of the LGBT population and its consequences

 

LO-2.4:  Explain the nature of the self and its relationship to communication.

Video The Self Worth Project

Everyday people and the connection between their own self-image and self-esteem expressed nonverbally 

 

LO-2.5:  Explain how communication continuously creates and influences identity

Video Symbolic Interactionism

How people’s behaviors in interaction with others in social settings are governed by their conception of themselves.

Web Link: So Much For Reinventing Ourselves Online

How the opportunity for online anonymity is fading