Looking Out, Looking In: Chapters III & IV

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This week’s topics are on Chapters 3 and 4 of the book, Looking Out, Looking In.

Now to just keep my post under 300 words, let’s begin!

 

Perception:

What You See Is What You Get

Chapter 3



Example for empathy!

The chapter starts off with the perception process, but before jumping into that, what is perception? My personal definition of perception is how we understand something in our own point-of-view. The process is how we go about using our perceptions in everyday life. The process includes selection, organization, interpretation, and negotiation. Selection is what we choose to pay attention to. Organization is arranging our selections that we have into categories so we can make sense out of what we have. Interpretation shows how we choose to understand what is in front of us. An example of interpretation can be based on someone you don’t know smiling at you. This simple action can be taken in as a romantic action or plain friendly. Our views and or thoughts of others can cause a change in our perception; this would be the negotiation process. Based on whether a friend doesn’t like a certain person, your perception on them way be swayed. The terms empathy and sympathy are two words that caught my eye. The both seem to mean the same thing, but are completely different. Sympathy is what you view another person’s situation to be in your own point of view, while empathy is where you view it from that person’s perspective. When you sympathize, it’s the others persons feelings of happiness or pain. When you empathize you can feel that person’s happiness or pain, if only for a moment.



Emotions:

Feeling, Thinking, And Communicating

Chapter 4

In this chapter there is a section called, guidelines for expressing emotions. We all have emotions, but how we would express them may be limited. Here are some tips the book shows on how you can expand your feelings. The first was recognizing your feelings; an example is by asking yourself “how do you feel?” Others include recognizing the difference between feeling, talking, and acting, expanding your emotional vocabulary, share multiple feelings, consider when and where to express your feelings, accept responsibility for your feelings, and be mindful of the communication channel. The communication channel, which was from chapter 1, is how we are sending the message, such as through a text, email, blogging. When using these channels for example certain words mean certain things. Perfect example is when putting letters in all caps means that you are shouting. Mistakes can’t be made but once something’s out there it’s pretty difficult to take it back. Facilitative and debilitative is described as the negative feelings that we hold and how we tend to handle them. The two main differences between the two is the intensity and the duration. Facilitative is more based on feelings such as anger that is short lived, while debilitative is long-lasting negative feelings.

Well that concludes my second assignment, I hope you enjoyed reading!

See you soon!! - Veronica