Is Psychology Communication?

Is Psychology Communication?

• Communication is very essential for the growth of human personality. Experts in the social sciences have repeatedly revealed that the lack of communication will hinder the development of personality (Davis, 1940; Waserman, 1924). Renowned anthropologist, Ashley Montague (1967: 450) explicitly writes: "The most important agency through which the child learns to be human is communication, verbal also nonverbal."
• Communication is very closely related to the behavior and experience of human consciousness. Not surprisingly, that communication always attracted researchers in psychology.
• Communication was brought up by psychology researchers, such as Willbur Schramm, Kurt Lewin (psychologists group dynamics), Paul Lazarsfeld (which heavily influenced psychologist Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis), Carl I. Hovland (once an assistant Clark Hull, of the psychology of behaviorism).

ATTENTION!
• Communication is not subdisciplines of psychology. As a science, communication through many disciplines. As symptoms of behavior, communication studied a variety of disciplines, including sociology, psychology & philosophy.

Differences:
• Psychology especially directed his attention to human behavior and try to conclude the process that leads to awareness of that behavior.
• Sociology of view of communication in social interaction.
• Philosophy of view of human relationships with other realities.
Four traits in Communication Psychology approach by Fisher
• Acceptance of sensory stimuli (sensory reception of stimuli)
• The process that mediates stimulus and response (internal mediation of stimuli)
• Prediction response (prediction of responses)
• Confirmation of response (reinforcement of responses)

Stimuli:
• Input to our sensory organs in the form of data.
• Shaped people, messages, sounds, colors (all the things that affect us)

RESPONSE:
• A response / feedback that occurs because of the stimulus.
• Communication is the most essential activity in human life. Approximately 70% of our waking hours are used to communicate. Someone else's success can be seen from his skill in communicating. Lack of communication will hinder the development of personality.
• Communication is very closely related to the behavior and experience of human consciousness. Or in other words, the science of communication is also closely related to the study of human behavior, namely Psychology. However, communication is not the science of psychology subdisciplines. Instead communication, discipline studied by other disciplines such as psychology and sociology.
• Actually, what is meant by "communication" is? There are many definitions of "communication". Definition-definition that arises is motivated by a variety of perspectives such as mechanical, sosiologistis, or psikologistis. Communication as an essential human activity, has a meaning that really wide. Starting from the delivery of energy, sound waves, the sign of the place, system or organism.
• Simply put, communication is the process of delivering information received by sensory equipment, into the brain. That information could come from the environment, other organisms, or from yourself. Seen from the perspective of biology, information delivery process itself is a very complicated process and complex. Results from the synergy of the brain with a variety of sensory organs and the organs of the body, and involves millions of nerve cells in the brain and throughout the body.
• However, the psychology is discussed in the analysis of all components involved in the communication process. In the self-communicant, the psychology of trying to formulate the characteristics of the communicant, and the factors that affect communication behavior. While on the communicator, psychology analyzes how a successful communication effective communication can occur. In addition, psychology is also analyzing how a stimulus can lead to responses in individuals or how an activity can lead to communication of a result.
• communicate the human goal is to produce an effective communication actions. Or in other words, communicate what is in the mind communicator, to match what he was thinking by the communicant. Effective communication is, at least lead to five points, namely understanding, enjoyment, influence on attitudes, relationships and actions the better.
• Understanding careful means acceptance of the contents of a stimulus as intended by the communicator. Failure to accept the message accurately called the primary communication failure (primary breakdown in communication).
• Fun is the purpose of communication which makes our relationship a warm, friendly and fun. Communication fatis (phatic communication): the communication is only done to seek to make others feel what yng called transactional analysis as "I'm OK - you're OK."
• affect the attitude is also persuasive communication purposes. Persuasive is defined as "the process of influencing opinions, attitudes and actions of people with psychological manipulation so that the person is acting as his own."
• Social relations are good if not successful will happen "flight syndrome" (to escape from the environment). Communication failure secondary (secondary breakdown) is a human relations problems arising from misunderstanding. Thus the necessary social survival skills in understanding the factors that influence the effectiveness of interpersonal communication such as interpersonal perception and interpersonal relationships.
• Action is the cumulative result of the whole process of communication; to get there first needed instill understanding, shaping and changing the sikapatau foster good relations.
• Here the role of psychology in the communication. In addition to analyzing the causes, effects, etc., psychology is also trying to discover what the best way to create effective communication. By studying psychology, communication will we do could be launched with the best way. In addition, the impact of any communication made predictable.

Psychology of Communication:
• Science of trying to describe, predict, and control of mental and behavioral events in the communication.
• That the concept of the psychology of communication. Psychology of communication seeks to analyze the process of communication between individuals or with yourself, with very clear. When a communication has been successful, then the goals we want to go can be achieved. In addition we have a personality that would thrive.


Quoted from: Jalaluddin Rachmat, 2008, Psychology of Communication, Chapter I, p. 1 to 16, Bandung: Remaja Rosdakarya