Chapter 1 Flashcards
The process of understanding and sharing meaning.
Communication
What is the central process of communication?
The idea that we share
A natural continuing, dynamic activity or function that is hard to describe it constantly changes.
A process
To understand is to perceive, to interpret, and to relate our perception and interpretation to what we already know
Understanding
The process by which we use, experience, give, or enjoy with others a sense of meaning or common understanding
Sharing
As you and they adapt to this change, the communication process stays the same. True or False
False. As you and they adapt this change, the communication process changes.
This essential nature of communication is repeated and transformed throughout the day, and this constantly changing process can be challenging to examine from a detached point of view.
A process
Your common frame of reference enable you have a closer understanding of what your classmate is saying, but if the conversation turns to a class that the other two speakers have in common, you may be the one at a loss. Define
Understanding
Your classmate may share your understanding of a lecture, your interpretation of class assignment, or provide ideas for one another on common issues that spark discussion and clarify differences in your understanding
sharing
To have in mind a purpose or covey an idea that we share through interaction
meaning
“Zapper days” small handheld devices where issued that resemble a remote control. Each handheld device has numbered buttons and Dr. Nathan Harshman has a series of questions that he can project onto screen at anytime during his lecture
Personal Response System (PRS) Computer-Mediated Communication
Gives students warm-up questions and quizzes shortly before class. Professors have the results before class to better enable them to focus on important concepts.
Just-In-Time Teaching
Helps facilitate feedback and prepares professors, teachers’ assistant, and students to engage in meaningful interpersonal communication as a result.
Computer-mediated communication
By looking at the context the word is used in, such as class, and by asking question we can discover
The shared meaning of the word and understand the message
Name the models of communication
Linear model of communication, interactive view of communication, transactional view of communication, constructivist model of communication
The two researchers who studied the complexity of messages and the capabilities of circuits to transmit them, wanting to know how to control communication in order o communicate effectively and efficiently transmit the maximum amount of information
Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver
In the measurement and transmission sense of the word, means that information can be represented with numbers
Digital
Who stated the idea that all communication is essentially digital?
Claude Shannon
This idea, upon which all modern computers are based, enables a word, song, or even a movie to be stored and reproduced by the correct interpretation of the numbers, also reduces communication to a scientific process that can be defined and repeated, losing some of the inherently dynamic qualities of human interaction
This idea is based on the digital world
The source sends the message to the receiver. This model is elegant in its simplicity, but as we have discussed previously, communication is a dynamic process of complexity
The linear model of communication
source ———–> receiver in between is message and channel —–interference
The linear model of communication
The source sends a message to a receiver, who in turn replies, continuing the conversation. This shift in emphasis changes how we perceive the source in an active role and the receiver in a passive one to a view of interactivity, adaptation, and shared roles called the
The interactive view of communication
What happens when the source and the receiver both try to play the role of the source, trying to talk to one another at the same time? There is an overlap, a loss of clear roles. Rather than perceiving communication as being linear or one way, as if one person is injecting another person with their message, or interactional, as if we inject one another with meaning. This view takes a step back to view the basic components in privies models in their contact and environment. States context and environment play a significant role in the understanding and sharing meaning. Involves feedback. This model provides a foundation for studying communication with yourself, with others, or in group and public speaking contexts.
The transactional view of communication
Links receiver with the source, time, and setting and mediates the transaction.
Feedback
