Question | Answer |
Responding in ways that fit the communication context: | Appropriateness |
The mediums that carry messages between communicators: | Channels |
Accepting others as equal partners in reaching common goals: | Civility |
The process of creating and sharing meaning through the use of symbols: | Communication |
Everything that makes up our way of life, including shared values, knowledge, behaviors and symbolic expression: | Culture |
Cultures within a culture: | Co-culture |
The interpretation of a message by deciphering symbols into understandable and meaningful ideas, thoughts, and feelings: | Decoding |
The initiation and creation of a message as a communicator translates ideas, thoughts and feelings into symbols: | Encoding |
One who perceives and attempts to understand a message: | Interpreter |
One who begins or advances the communication process by generating a message: | Initiator |
The total composite of a person's personality, experiences, and identity: | Self |
A symbolic expression of ideas, thoughts and feelings: | Message |
Messages expressed through a formal language, using oral, written, or signed words: | Verbal Communication |
Messages expressed through symbols other than words, including hand gestures, facial expressions, touching, vocal inflection and clothing: | Nonverbal Communication |
Anything that interferes with the creation of shared meaning between or among communicators: | Noise |
A response or reaction to a message: | Feedback |
An internal dialogue with ourselves; self-talk: | Intrapersonal communication |
Interaction among a small number of people: | Interpersonal communication |
Interaction among 3 to 7 people who communicate over time to accomplish some goal or purpose: | Small Group Communication |
Interactions with large numbers of people: | Public communication |
This occurs when communicators use some form of technology, including television, radio, film, newspapers, and the internet: | Mediated communication |
The words, images, gestures, and expressions that we use to represent our thoughts, ideas, beliefs and feelings: | Symbols |
Valuing the process by which difference becomes meaningful and developing the competence to live, learn, and work within many cultures: | Diversity |
The principles that guide our decisions about what is good or bad, right or wrong: | Ethics |
The ability to consider behavior from someone else's point of view: | Perspective Talking |
The ability to see,think about, and act based on the consequences of your behavior: | Self Monitoring |
What are the 6 basic elements of the communications process: | 1)Initiators & Interpreters
2)Messages
3)Noise
4)Channels
5)Feedback
6)Context & Culture |