Comm41 Midterm Review
Terms
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- communication
- the process of acting on information
- human communication
- the process of making sense out of the world and attempting to share that sense with others by creating meaning through the use of verbal and nonverbal messages
- interpersonal communication
- a distinctive, transactual form of human communication involving mutual influence, usually for the purpose of managing relationships
- impersonal communication
- communication that occurs when we treat people as objects, or when we respond to their roles rather than to who they are as unique persons
- relationship
- an ongoing connection made with another person through interpersonal communication
- mass communication
- communication that occurs when one person issues the same message to many people at once; the creator of the message is usually not present, and there is virually no opportunity for listeners to respond to the speaker
- public communication
- communication that occurs when a speaker addresses an audience in person
- small-group communication
- communication that occurs when a group of from three to fifteen people meet to interact with a common purpose and mutually influence on another
- intrapersonal communication
- communication with yourself; thinking
- source
- originator of a thought or emotion, who puts it into a code that can be understood by a receiver
- encode
- to translate ideas, feelings, and thoughts into a code
- decode
- to interpret ideas, feelings and thoughts that have been translated into a code
- receiver
- person who decodes a message and attempts to make sense of what the source has encoded
- message
- written, spokn, and unspoken elements of communication to which people assign meaning
- channel
- pathway through which messages are sent