In this assignment, I decided to go to two different places to observe people. I went to a book store called Barnes n Noble, where they had a small coffee shop inside. The next place was a small restaurant outside of a mall called Brio. At both places, I spent an equal amount of time of an hour, to get a good observation of different people at both places. After looking for a couple minutes, I found a group of friends enjoying their coffee and talking about life and decided to observe them. At the restaurant, there was these two teenagers on a date, maybe their first date and decided to observe them while I was there.
While eating dinner at the restaurant Brio, I found two teenagers, a couple of tables away from me. What looked like they were on a date? It looked like their first date since there were moments of awkwardness. As their date went on through the
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The girl was the opposite because she seemed very comfortable with him, twirling her hair and making eye contact all the time. At the coffee shop, the friends were all comfortable with each other and showed so many gestures from adaptors, illustrators and affect displays. You could tell that they had been friends for a long time.
To put this in a nutshell, I can conclude that after witnessing two different type of situations, people show a certain of amount of gestures and what type of gestures depending on the person or persons they are speaking with. If you just met this person and haven’t really met them, you aren’t going to be showing many affect displays and probably showing more regulators than adaptors. If your speaking with someone you known for a long time, the opposite will occur, more adaptors will be shown than regulators. You many smile and laugh more, also illustrator your words more
The problem behavior associated with individuals making bad food choices when presented with unhealthy food will need to be observed so that we may understand how to change this behavior as it is unhealthy and harmful to health overall. Are poor choices in different foods causing obesity? Making poor choices when it comes to food is an
On September 12, 2014, I observed two people; Person A and Person B. The observation took place at Applebee’s, a local restaurant, beginning at 7:21 p.m. and ending observation at 8:06 p.m. I was serving their table for the evening, enabling myself to observe them closely. The restaurant had died down from the dinner rush, leaving them one of three tables in the smoking section, normally filled with eight. Along with the outside light fading, the lighting indoors was dim, making the dining experience feel more quiet and intimate. The background noise was filled with a light roar of other group’s conversations, and a jazz station played quietly from the speakers overhead.
This group was of three individuals two females and one male between the ages of eighteen and twenty. The male of the group was in the center between the girls. One female was standing on the right side of the male while the other was on his left. The young adult to the right of where the male was sitting was standing leaning against the charging bar inward towards the young man, while the other young adult was sitting on a chair next to the male. There were a lot of facial gestures of raised eyebrows, and indented eyebrows by the young male. He however smiled and laughed regularly, possibly indicating he was nervous in some way. The young lady to his left was very touchy feely, from rubbing his back, his left leg, even his hair, which made him laugh, lean forward and sideways as if trying t o retreat. The girls stared at each other girl with a glared, while the girl on his right moved closer standing within his personal space. The girl to the left put her arms around the young mans necks at which time he mouthed something to the other girls and smiled. The three were talking back and forth the young girls arms and hand were moving back and forth, the facial expressions began to change from that of smiling to that of anger, and distrust. During the exchange the male became distracted by other persons in the mall; not paying attention to the females around him, as they moved closer to each
Upon entering the restaurant we as a group were very close together whereas the waiter was distancing himself. This can be seen as a sign of dominance so that we would be noticeable and led to a table quickly. During the conversation we would openly laugh and smile at the person talking in the group. Colby was very close to Emily and tried his best to engage her in conversation as much as he could. This is because Colby has a very large crush on Emily while he was doing this and angling himself to see her in the conversation she would
Human’s, according to the bible, will always be evil because of one action; the action of biting the apple. Films like Fargo, Magnolia, and Pleasantville portray human nature constantly “biting the apple.” These films seem to share many views on how human nature is portrayed with the Bible. Betrayal and forgiveness are two prominent themes in the Bible as well as all three of these films. In particular, the film Magnolia seems to have almost every character commit betrayal of some kind. The one character that is true to Bonhoeffer’s “true discipleship” is Officer Jim Kurring. He values the lives he saves more than his own life, he is truly unselfish.
Affect Displays: These are facial languages or gestures which show the emotions we feel. These are often unintentional and can be different with what we r saying. these expressions give strong hints as to the true emotive state of a person.
Naturalistic observation involves recording subjects' naturally occurring behavior while they are in their natural environment. This experiment revolves around this type of observation. Specifically, it involves the observation of the various human dyads (male-female, male-male, female-female,) social interaction, within in a public environment. Focal points of observation included conversation space (distance between individuals heads,), and body language.
The man and woman both appeared to be in their early-20’s and were sitting across from each other at a table. They were engaging with each other, but there were some awkward pauses. From their interaction, the final impression I made on them was that they were potential dates. The man tried his best to maintain eye contact for longer periods with the woman, but it proved difficult for him. He would look at her and then look down at the table throughout their conversation. The man was fidgeting with his clothing slightly, and he wiped his palms against his pants at one point. His facial expressions indicated that he was having an enjoyable time, even though he looked a little serious from his nervous behavior. As for the woman, her body language was mostly relaxed. She would maintain eye contact with him, and would smile at him. Even though it was not as obvious as him, she seemed slightly nervous because she licked her lips a few times and was touching her hair. From the cues, both appeared to be attracted to each other and were interested in the conversation. Their body positions were open and did not indicate signs of boredom or unpleasantness. Their date appeared to be going well, as they left in smiles together afterwards. For the last scenario, I was in the library doing homework and there was a pair of college student males working on an assignment together. They were sitting next to each other, but
Thinking about normal social interactions and normal social behaviors, I think of comfortable. When I sit down with a friend, a usual routine is followed, “Hey, how are you, what’s new?” (e.g. My turn, your turn). These questions between my friend and I include eye contact, attention, and facial expression. Usually, I feel that I give my friend my undivided attention. Other normal characteristics include: remembering what the person has just said so a comment can be made, as well as each comment is appropriate and in relation to the current topic. Moreover, the duration between each question or comment is short.
By using observation method, a wide variety of behavior can be recorded. Picking through the garbage on the side of the road can reveal behaviors of fast-food customers, or sitting for only one hour in the university canteen can understand the gender differences in choosing (diet) meal, or even watching the customer’s behavior from deciding which yogurt to be taken off its store shelves in the supermarket can also answer the question: Are the customers be attracted by its appearance or flavor or price or brand or nutrition? The aim of this observation assignment is to evaluate and explain the different types of interactions between individual and groups present, as well as the environment in which these interactions take place. The field observation was conducted at the Vietnamese fast-food restaurant named “We love Banhmi” in Budapest, and the role adopted, was that of observer as a non-participant. Group structures as well as overall activity, patterns of behavior, and the duration and timing of such behaviors and interactions were observed and recorded. Sociological concepts pertaining to age, gender, and appearance were also noted and applied.
Nonverbal communication can be shown by many different gestures, body movements, and understood by all the different channels. For example, when Dory believes that Marlin has entered her personal space by following her too closely she reacts by using proxemics to intimidate Marlin. Dory purposely enters Marlin’s personal space to show dominance and her gestures show “affect display.” Dory’s affect display is “the movements of the face that convey emotional meaning- the expressions that show anger and fear, happiness and surprise…” (DeVito 144) It is a nonver...
I glanced around the dimly lit dining room of our neighborhood Jack-In-The-Box at the collection of adolescent girls and boys gossiping about their absent friends, urban families enjoying their weekly treat of chicken fingers with exotic dipping sauces, and a teenage employee attempting to grasp a carpet sweeper with her fry-greased hands. As each of their gazes wandered the room curiously observing the quaint surroundings, their eyes conveniently skipped over the socially unacceptable figure in the corner, but I saw him clearly.
Gestures and their coordinating words are presented at the same time by the speaker. David McNeill defines this phenomenon as “co-expressive.” The timing of speech and its coordinating gesture are very important. It shows that what is being ...
There are different types of communication (verbal, nonverbal, paralinguistic). Verbal communication is communicating with words. For instance, an individual speaks to another at a business meeting regarding profit margins. Second, nonverbal communication is communicating without the use of words but through gesture, body language, facial expression and eye contact (Baron, Branscombe, Byrne). Also these physical expressions can provide powerful and valuable information about others’ current feelings and reactions without the need of words. Lastly paralinguistic is defined as the use of emotional expression, gestures, and the location of the body in relation to the other's body, eye contact, and level of voice instead of verbally expressing these cues (Triandis). Additionally, paralinguistic is also known as paralanguage as a way to modify or nuance meaning, or convey emotion, with the use of pitch, volume, and intonation (Triandis). For instance, as described by Triandis’ article Culture and Communication, “in Bulgaria and south India a nod means "no,” and a shake of the head, means "yes".” It’s interesting how Triandis describes the amount of difficulty it was to compre...
...tention to how people react to one another’s comments, guessing the relationship between the people and guessing how each feels about what is being said. This can inform individuals to better understand the use of body language when conversing with other people. It is also important to take into account individual differences. Different cultures use different non-verbal gestures. Frequently, when observing these gestures alone the observer can get the wrong impression, for instance, the listener can subconsciously cross their arms. This does not mean that they are bored or annoyed with the speaker; it can be a gesture that they are comfortable with. Viewing gestures as a whole will prevent these misunderstandings. Non-verbal gestures are not only physical, for example; the tone of voice addressing a child will be different from the way it is addressed to an adult.