The Miracle Worker by Helen Keller

Today, Mr.Anuari showed us a movie to watch. He said that after watchin the movie, can help us to learn how to communicate much better and more effective in our daily life. The title for the movie was 'The Miracle Worker', long ago in 1962.

Synopsis:----> The movie was about a young girl named Helen Keller, blind, deaf, and mute since infancy, is in danger of being sent to an institution. Her inability to communicate has left her frustrated and violent. In desperation, her parents seek help from the Perkins Institute, which sends them a ''half-blind Yankee schoolgirl'' named Annie Sullivan to tutor their daughter. Through persistence and love, and sheer stubbornness, Annie breaks through Helen's walls of silence and darkness and teaches her to communicate.

Another my version of Synopsis was:
A girl named Helen Keller was helpless due to blind and deaf since childbirth and cannot gain back her strength to move on with life. Gifts from Anne Sullivan tutor that can teach the young girl to fight through obstacles and hardships gave Young Helen Keller a new world to live. With consistence love and hard-work, both tutor and Helen made success in life, being known how to communicate and speak well. This give a huge inspiration to us that shows with hard-work comes good pay in return. We should learn from the movie so that we can be more useful and showing that people are not useless, they are just being lazy.

I like the movie a lot because the story tells and teaches us a lot of moral values and lessons we cannot learn throughout in education schools. After watching the movie, I felt dissapointed about myself and wanted to learn more so that i can become more useful and be more pro-active in life. 

Chapter 4 The Self

Chapter 4

THE SELF

Refering to the slides shown on UCSI LMS, self here is defined as the discussion and context of the individual.

-also be deemed as the way in which communication and interpretation of messages takes place within the individual.

for examples:Who are you?

                      What represents you?

                      How does others think of you?

'self' can be widened into:- Self-concept . Self-awareness. Self-esteem . Self-disclosure

SELF-CONCEPT - how you feel and think about yourself, for examples: your feelings and thoughts,                                                                                                                     your strength and weaknesses,

Areas that affect self-concept

-Social Comparison

-Other’s Images of you

-Self interpretations & evaluations

-Cultural teaching

SELF-AWARENESS- ability to discover things are known about yourselves

The Four Selfs – Johari Window:

The four different windows explains different parts of our selves that we know ourselves; others know better than we do; some remain hidden from others and some totally UNKNOWN to you or anyone.

Open arena (Open self) – known to self and others

Façade (Hidden self) – known to self but unknown to others

Blind Spot (Blind Self) – Unknown to you but known to others. 

Unknown (Unknown Self) – Unknown to you and others.

Growing in self awareness

Listen to others

Increase your open self

Seek information about yourself

Dialogue with yourself

Self-Esteem means confidence or the level of trust or assurance to yourself.

How to increase your self esteem?

1.Attack self-destructive belief

2.Seek out Nourishing people

3.Work on project that will result in success

4.Remind yourself of your success

5.Secure affirmation

Factors influencing self disclosure

who you are

Your culture

Your gender

Your listeners – small groups or large groups

Your topic and channel.

Self-Disclosure: Self-Disclosure’s advantages:
a. Gain confidence

b. Be more truthful about yourself

c. Make or strengthen friendships and relationships

Self-Disclosure’s disadvantages:

a. Lost of friends and trust

b. Additional pressure and burden

c. Living with regret

Chapter 3 Listening

As time fly by quickly it was the 3rd week of the semester. The 'extra' mark activity was yet again open for everyone on that day. Recap-ing the lessons learned from the previous class is very important, well said by the lecturer-Mr.Anuari.

Another chance I missed out to grab the opportunity having that 1mark. OMG :(

The topic Mr.Anuari gonna tell us today was about stages/process of listening, listening and culture, and lastly listening effectively.

Listening is a specialized process, a type of perception, by which you receive auditory signals.

Also the process of receiving, constructing meaning from and responding to spoken and/or non-verbal messages.

The 5 Stages of listening process/cycle:

STAGES:
Receiving: Verbally and nonverbally, Hearing auditory stimuli
Understanding: Decoding the speaker’s messages
Remembering: Retaining messages received and understood for at least some period of time

Before moving to the following ones, Mr.Anuari gave us an exercise to train our memorizing powers.
He showed us the following selected words.
Bed                  Communication          
Rest                 Listening
Dream             Hearing
Awake             Feedback
Comfort           Receiving
Sound              Blur
Wake               Positive
Tired                Noise
Night               Banana
eat                     happy

After 2minutes we are suppose to write down all the words on a piece of paper without peeking or talking to each other in the class. We later found out that most of us got the word 'Sleep' which is not found inside the selected words. This is because our mind helps us to sum up everything and got the word Sleep, which is related to all of the selected words.

Evaluating: Judging messages you hear
Responding: Responding occurs in two phases: responses while the speaker is talking

Listening is difficult.
It will be more difficult when speaker and listener come from different culture.
Language and Cultures:
1.Language & speech

2.nonverbal behavioral differences

3.Direct and indirect styles

4.balance of story versus evidence

5.Credibility

6.Feedback

Listening Effectively has different ways such as:

Participatory and passive listening

Empathic & objective listening

Nonjudgmental & critical listening

Surface & depth listening

Chapter 2 Perception

Today was the second week also the second class of human communication. The first thing Mr.Anuari did was he asked us what do we learned in the previous class. The ones who can go to infront of the class and tell will get an 'extra' mark for participation marks.
Moving on the Subtopics is the definition of perception and the process of perception, also not to miss out the influencing in the process and the critical perception.
Perception is the impression that others give you and what you project to others.
Sensory stimulation occurs
First stage-Sensory stimulation occurs
Second stage-Organized according to various principles
                     -proximity principle/Closure principle
Third stage-Sensory stimulation is interpreted-evaluated
1.Implicit personality theory
2.The self-fulfilling prophecy
3,Primacy- recency
4,Consistency
5,Attribution

You can have your own opinion about someone’s characteristics that say which characteristics of an individual go with other characteristics.
HALO effect:- refers good traits. eg: kind, caring, compassionate, etc.
REVERSE HALO effect:- refers bad traits. eg: boring, unpleasant to hang out with, etc.
Pygmalion effect:- Which one make prediction and then proceeds to fulfill it.
Consistency is defined as having a strong tendency to maintain balance or consistency among perceptions.
Attribution is defined as the process through which you try discover why people do what they do and even why you do what you do.

Principles of attribution: Consensus, Consistency,Distinctiveness and Controllability.
Critical perception: making perceptions more accurate
1.Analyze impressions
2.Check perceptions
3.Reduce uncertainty
4.Increase cultural sensitivity

Chapter 1 Human Communicatio

Today was the first day of my third and also my last semester. It was 7th of January 2015, which falls on a Wednesday. The first class was Human Communication and the lecturer that will be teaching us is Mr.Anuari.
The Subtopics he taught us was the cultures/areas/components/purpose of human communication.
He said the main purpose of studying human communication was to focus on understanding how people communicate in various ways . The definition of Communication refer to the act by one or more persons of sending and receiving messages.

It is important as communications shows a good or bad first impression to someone else. Communication is needed in everything. For example: asking for direction, interviewing for a job, ordering food etc.

The areas of human communication covers 5 types: Intrapersonal communication, interpersonal communication, small group &organizational communication, public communication and  mass communication.

Cultural of human communication such as hand gestures shows different meaning in different countries.

In Communication Models we have TWO main linear model. SPEAKER---->RECEIVER 

There is also Interactional View of communication, which shows vise-versa of the speaker and the receiver.

In the class Mr.Anuari showed us this picture.  

What is this?

Speaker are the one who Encode messages while the Receiver is the one who decode the messages.

4 Channels: Vocal channel, Visual channel, Olfactory channel and Tactile channel

3 Noise: Physical Noise, Psychological Noise, Semantic Noise

Last but not least:   A group of deaf and mute

                                              &

                                      A group of blind

                              How can they communicate?