Chapter 4-Communications and Documentation

Question 1

Cultural Imposition

Answer 1

When one person imposes his or her beliefs, values and practices on another because s/he believes their ideals are superior

Question 2

Ethnocentrism

Answer 2

When a person considers his or her own cultural values as more important when interacting with people of a different culture

Question 3

Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

Answer 3

The federal agency that has jurisdiction over interstate and international telephone and telegraph services and satellite communications, all of which may involve EMS activity

Question 4

Interoperable Communications Device

Answer 4

A communication system that allows voice over internet (VoIP) technology to allow multiple agencies to communicate and transmit data.

Question 5

Mental Model

Answer 5

The picture an individual has in his or her head of whats going on in a given situation

Question 6

Duplex

Answer 6

The ability to transmit and receive simultaneously

Question 7

Multiplex

Answer 7

The ability to transmit audio and data signals through the use of more than one communications channel

Question 8

Simplex

Answer 8

Single frequency radio. Can not receive and transmit simultaneously.

Question 9

Telemetry

Answer 9

A process in which electronic signals are converted into coded, audible signals which can be then transmitted by radio or telephone to a receiver with a decoder

Question 10

Trunking

Answer 10

Telecommunication systems that allow a computer to maximize utilization of a group of frequencies

Question 11

UHF (Ultra High Frequencies)

Answer 11

300-3,000 MHz

Question 12

VHF (Very High Frequencies)

Answer 12

30-300 MHZ