Chapter 1

Question 1

The process of understanding and sharing meaning.

Answer 1

Communication

Question 2

What is the central process of communication?

Answer 2

The idea that we share

Question 3

A natural continuing, dynamic activity or function that is hard to describe it constantly changes.

Answer 3

A process

Question 4

To understand is to perceive, to interpret, and to relate our perception and interpretation to what we already know

Answer 4

Understanding

Question 5

The process by which we use, experience, give, or enjoy with others a sense of meaning or common understanding

Answer 5

Sharing

Question 6

As you and they adapt to this change, the communication process stays the same. True or False

Answer 6

False. As you and they adapt this change, the communication process changes.

Question 7

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.

Answer 7

A process

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Understanding

Question 9

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

Answer 9

sharing

Question 10

To have in mind a purpose or covey an idea that we share through interaction

Answer 10

meaning

Question 11

“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

Answer 11

Personal Response System (PRS) Computer-Mediated Communication

Question 12

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.

Answer 12

Just-In-Time Teaching

Question 13

Helps facilitate feedback and prepares professors, teachers’ assistant, and students to engage in meaningful interpersonal communication as a result.

Answer 13

Computer-mediated communication

Question 14

By looking at the context the word is used in, such as class, and by asking question we can discover

Answer 14

The shared meaning of the word and understand the message

Question 15

Name the models of communication

Answer 15

Linear model of communication, interactive view of communication, transactional view of communication, constructivist model of communication

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver

Question 17

In the measurement and transmission sense of the word, means that information can be represented with numbers

Answer 17

Digital

Question 18

Who stated the idea that all communication is essentially digital?

Answer 18

Claude Shannon

Question 19

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

Answer 19

This idea is based on the digital world

Question 20

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

Answer 20

The linear model of communication

Question 21

source ———–> receiver in between is message and channel —–interference

Answer 21

The linear model of communication

Question 22

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

Answer 22

The interactive view of communication

Question 23

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.

Answer 23

The transactional view of communication

Question 24

Links receiver with the source, time, and setting and mediates the transaction.

Answer 24

Feedback

Question 25

This process of coming to a common understanding of words extends to thoughts, ideas, experiences, and the central issue of meaning. The process of coming to an understanding is much like a… in what model

Answer 25

Negotiation… constructivist model of communication

Question 26

Focusing on the negotiated meaning, or the common ground of understanding we create, when trying to describe the process

Answer 26

The constructivist model of communication

Question 27

source, message, channel feedback, interference

Answer 27

Interactional Model of Communication

Question 28

source ,receiver, message/feedback channels message/feedback interference receiver, source context environment

Answer 28

The transactional Model of Communication

Question 29

Creates and sends the message

Answer 29

source

Question 30

The stimulus or meaning produced by the source for the receiver or audience

Answer 30

message

Question 31

The way in which a message or messages travel between source and receiver

Answer 31

channel

Question 32

receives the message from the source, analyzing and interpreting the message in ways both intended and unintended by the source

Answer 32

receiver

Question 33

allows the source to see how well his or her message was received and gives opportunity for the receiver to ask for clarification, disagree, or indicate misunderstanding. A very important part of communication. The messages the receiver sends back to the source.

Answer 33

Feedback

Question 34

the atmosphere, physical and psychological, where you send and receive messages.

Answer 34

environment

Question 35

the communication interaction, unlike the chairs, tables, to lighting of the environment, involves the setting, scene, and expectations of the individuals involved.

Answer 35

Context

Question 36

anything that interferes or changes the source’s intended meaning of the message

Answer 36

Interference

Question 37

Reading by assigning meaning to each individual letter that is part of a specific grouping, called a word, brought together by a set of rules called syntax or grammar. A code taught by family, society, group etc. Used to communicate via the written word, recording ideas to be read and interpreted

Answer 37

Language p.47-48

Question 38

Languages have borrowed words and ways to organize them forever. The letters come together to form an arbitrary word that refers to thought or idea of the thing in the

Answer 38

Semantic Triangle

Question 39

Illustrates how the combination of five letters refers to the thought which then refers to the thing or event itself. Key word is symbolizes. The word stands for the actual event. Words allow us to talk about something that isn’t right in front of us. The word stands in place of the event, representing it

Answer 39

The illustration of the semantic triangle

Question 40

Name the principles of verbal communication

Answer 40

1. Language has rules 2. Our Reality is Shaped by Our Language 3. Language is Arbitrary and Symbolic 4. Language is Abstract 5. Language Organizes and Classifies Reality