Category: Essays

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you explain the nature of thought.

Outline your own perceptual process and describe the types of perceptual blocks that influence your views.

Explain thought processes and how they are changed or manipulated by perception.

Include the following in your paper:

·  Describe thinking.

o  Explain sensing process.

o  Define memory.

o  Describe the medium.

·  Identify an instance in your life in which your perception of the real situation was far from the actual facts.

·  Outline your own perceptual process.

o  What did you think was going on?

o  What was really going on?

o  Why was there such a difference?

o  How did language empower or limit the expression of your thoughts?

o  What did you learn about your thinking by evaluating the situation again?

·  Describe the types of perceptual blocks that influence your views.

o  Identify personal barriers.

o  Describe thoughts.

o  Illustrate an example of thought being influenced by barriers.

·  Explain how thought is changed or manipulated by personal barriers.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

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In this final assignment, you will assess your skills in interpersonal, group, and organizational communications based on your studies of these forms of communication. Address each of these forms of communication separately in the portfolio, assessing your overall skills in this area and then specifically addressing the issues listed below. Also, apply at least four of the theories or models of communication you have studied in the course. Your portfolio should address the following:

1. Interpersonal Communication:

a. Your overall skills in this form of communication

b. Your spoken language skills

c. Your listening skills

d. Your relationship skills

e. Issues discussed in the Your Study of Communication Assignment

f. Issues discussed in the Personal Constructs Paper Assignment

g. Issues discussed in the Relationship Development Assignment

2. Group Communications:

a. Your overall skills in this form of communication

b. Five characteristics that would describe you

c. Group roles you play most frequently

d. Are you all territorial? How do you show your territoriality?

e. Do you have a large or small “personal space bubble”? How does this affect your communication with others?

f. Families are groups with definite roles, structure, and norms. Analyze your family communication and your skills in this area.

3. Organizational Communications:

a. Your overall skills in this form of communication

b. Issues related to work-content skills, personal attributes such as self-management, and technology skills discussed in the Organizational Skills Assessment Assignment

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Organizational Skills Assessment. Think about the skills you have gained through coursework, personal experiences, and previous employment that will help you be effective in organizations. Prepare a written list of the skills you possess in each of the following categories: (a) work-content skills, (b) personal attributes (such as communication and self-management), and (c) technology. Following each skill listed, explain how the skill might help you in your current career or in the career you intend to pursue. The paper must be formatted according to APA style. For information regarding APA samples and tutorials, visit the Ashford Writing Center, within the Learning Resources tab on the left navigation toolbar, in your online course.

TIP: You will also incorporate information from this paper into the Final Portfolio due in Week Five of this course.

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The Global Village. What is your attitude toward living in the global village? For example, if you were offered a good job in a foreign country, how would you feel about packing up and moving there for several years? If your roommate were of a different cultural background, would you welcome the experience or would you feel a little uncomfortable? Do your answers depend on what country the job is in or where the roommate comes from? Explore this attitude. Why do you think you feel the way you do?

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Organizational Communication. Discuss the upward and downward communication channels you have experienced here at Ashford University. Identify any problems in organizational communication you have seen. Do you feel that you have adequate information? In what areas would you like clearer information? What could the university do to provide more useful information to you and to improve communication?

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Final Portfolio Draft. Review the Final Portfolio instructions found in Week Five of the online course or under the “Components of Course Evaluation” section of the Course Guide. This assignment will require you to assess your concept of self and your communication skills, strengths and weaknesses, challenges, and opportunities for growth. The draft should address the issues listed in the assignments that have been covered through the first three weeks of this class. The draft must be three to four pages in length and formatted according to APA style. You must use at least three academic resources, one of which can be found in the Ashford Online Library, to support your claims and subclaims. Cite your resources in text and on the reference page. For information regarding APA samples and tutorials, visit the Ashford Writing Center, within the Learning Resources tab on the left navigation toolbar, in your online course.

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Relationship Development. Think about the progression of relationships in your life. How is your communication different when you first meet a stranger, when you get to know the person and find something in common, and when you get to be good friends? Does it change significantly if you establish an intimate relationship with that person? Have you experienced the dialectical tensions described by Baxter and Rawlins? How have you resolved them? Have you known people whose relationships broke apart because they could not resolve dialectical tensions? Share your views on these issues.

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Not Communicating. During this week, select one hour of the day when you are with other people and try not to communicate. During this hour, try your best not to communicate verbally and to keep nonverbal communication to a minimum. Take note of the opportunities for communication you passed up, how it felt when you couldn’t communicate, and how others reacted toward you. Once you get an initial reaction, if your behavior seems to be upsetting those around you, give a brief explanation that you are conducting an exercise for a communications class, and then go back to being non-communicative. Share your experience and discuss what you noticed about your behavior and the behavior of others while you conducted this exercise.

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Personal Constructs. To get a clearer sense of the kinds of judgments you make, think of specific people who fit the following categories: a family member, a teacher, a male friend, a female friend, a person you dislike, and a person you work or socialize with. Choose two of these people and list five to ten adjectives that describe ways in which these people are similar and five to ten adjectives that describe ways in which they are different. Then, choose two other people and repeat the exercise. It is acceptable to use some of the same adjectives again. Finally, choose another person (or one of the people you examined earlier) and compare them to yourself. List five to ten adjectives that describe how you and this person are similar and five to ten adjectives that describe how the two of you are different. These adjectives represent some of your personal constructs. Now analyze your list, clustering together constructs that are similar.

Write a paper in which you discuss what your list tells you about your values. Address the following issues and any other insights you gained from completing the paper:

a. Do you have a relatively stable set of constructs about people, or do your constructs vary widely depending on whom you are judging?

b. Does stereotyping enter your judgment process; for example, do you use different kinds of constructs to describe men than to describe women? Are the constructs you use fair? Are they complete? Do they allow you to make adequate assessments of others?

c. Did you judge yourself more favorably than you did others?

d. How do the constructs you use affect the way you communicate with others?

e. Discuss how people can be encouraged to develop a rich and complex set of personal constructs.

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Language and Attitudes. According to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, we think through language. The words we use to talk about the world reinforce our attitudes and, occasionally, our prejudices. Changing our language to eliminate offensive language, many argue, may change our attitudes as well. At the very least, becoming aware of the biases in language practices may make us more sensitive to the feelings of those who are the targets of these biases. Thus, we try our best to avoid sexist and racist language by substituting new, more “politically correct” usage. Do you think that language affects thought and behavior? Does changing our language make a significant change in the way we think and behave? Have some efforts to be more politically sensitive gone too far? We say, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” Can words hurt?

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