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大学英语跨文化交际 Chapter 3 Culture’s Influence on Perception An idiom Everyone thinks that all the bells echo his own thoughts. German proverb Lead-in Case: Perception of War Please read Case and then discuss the questions in pairs. 1. Why did Jim and Olga have very different attitudes towards starvation and war? 2. Give a brief analysis of their understandings of starvation and war. 3. What factors do you think influence the actual interaction between Jim and Olga? Text AOverview: Human Perception Pre-reading Task: Suppose you are an American farmer, a French engineer living in Paris, a Scottish country poet, a person living in tropical rain forest or a Chinese oversea student. What do you think of the beautiful full moon on the traditional Chinese Mid-Autumn Day? Discuss the model of human perception Step 1: Read “A Basic Model of Human Perception” and then explain the following key words. (1) Sensation (2) Perception (3) Selection (4) Organization (5) Interpretation Sensation: It is the neurological process by which people become aware of their environment. It refers to the initial detection of energy from the physical world. 感觉： 感觉是人们意识到周围环境的神经过程,是对物质世界的第一察觉。 Perception: It is the process by which we become aware of objects, events, and especially people and their behavior through our various senses and involves higher-order cognition in the interpretation of the sensory information. 知觉：知觉是一种人们通过各种感觉来觉察事物、事件、人和人的行为的过程。它是解释感觉信息更为高阶的认知过程。 Selection: It is a process in which we screen out what we need from all the stimuli and information around us. 选择:选择是从周围选择的刺激信息中筛选出所需要的信息的过程。 Organization: It is the process during which we need to organize and impose structure on what we observe in a meaningful way. 组织： 组织是把从周围选择的刺激信息，以一种有意义的方式整理，组合的过程。 Interpretation: It refers to attaching meaning to sense data and is synonymous with decoding.释义：释义是赋予感觉信息意义的过程， 类似于解码过程。 Step 2: Discuss s