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A 3 page essay that examines symbolic representation in communication. Human perception understands reality and the world in terms of symbolic forms of representation. Real things in the world are filtered through cognitive processes that comprehend the world in terms of language, both spoken and oral, which means that everything human beings comprehend is understood through one or more levels of abstraction. Even other forms of symbolic representation, that is, statistics, map and photographs are described and discussed in terms of language. These symbolic forms of representation are not neutral, but are cultural embedded and reflect the entirety of societal mores and perspectives. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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world in terms of language, both spoken and oral, which means that everything human beings comprehend is understood through one or more levels of abstraction. Even other forms of symbolic
representation, that is, statistics, map and photographs are described and discussed in terms of language. These symbolic forms of representation are not neutral, but are cultural embedded and reflect the
entirety of societal mores and perspectives. For example, Salomon (1997) points out that symbolic forms of representation are not unbiased presentations of data that have no effect on perception
of the material. For example, the metaphor by which the world is presented and understood necessarily affects the perception of reality. For example, the Biblical metaphor of humanity as being
similar to clay on a potters wheel suggests one version of the reality of human existence (Salomon, 1997). In the late nineteenth century, philosophers presented the human psyche as being
similar to a steam engineer, with "hidden, bubbling boilers" (Salomon, 1997, p. 375). The invention of the telephone caused pundits to compare the human mind to a complicated switchboard and
today, the metaphor of a computer is often invoked to describe the processes of human intelligence (Salomon, 1997). All of these metaphors are similar and compare similar human experience, but
none of them can accurately convey the complexity of the natural phenomenon that they are trying to describe. While language is humanitys primary form of symbolic representation, it is
-- of course-- not its only form. Cognitive experts have long realized that the majority of people feel more at ease expressing themselves through visual images than through words (Yin,
2001). According one Gerald Zaltman of the Harvard Business School, roughly 60 percent of all stimuli reaching the brain is through the visual system (Yin, 2001). Zaltman perceives images as
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