Interpersonal Communication
Chapters 1-4 (Test 1) Questions
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Media ANS✔✔ Tools for exchanging messages ex: email, texts, Facebook,
face to face
Message ANS✔✔ The "package" of information that is transported during
communication
Forms of communication ANS✔✔ Speech and Rhetorical studies,
communication studies, mass communication and media studies,
telecommunication studies
Speech and Rhetorical studies ANS✔✔ how people use words to compel
audiences to change or solidify their beliefs, ex: political speeches, audience
analysis, argumentation, rhetorical criticism and rhetorical theory
Communication studies ANS✔✔ Research of communication within various
contexts. ex: interpersonal communication, organizational communication,
intercultural communication, family communication, health and risk
communication, and social influence
Mass communication and media studies ANS✔✔ The history and current
state of the media industries, critical analysis of the messages transmitted by
media institutions and examination of the relationship between mass and
media culture
,Telecommunication studies ANS✔✔ The development, use, regulation, and
impact of radio, television, telephony, the internet and other such technologies.
ex: scholars may study population trends in television viewing or challenges
raised by the use of online communication
Parts of the linear communication model ANS✔✔ Sender, receiver, message,
channel, noise
Linear communication model ANS✔✔ Communication is an activity in
which information flows in one direction from start to end (email, text
messaging, non-responsive public speeches) simple and straight forward
Interactive communication model ANS✔✔ Process involving senders and
receivers, influenced by feedback and fields of experience (classroom
instruction, group presentations, weekly team/coworker meetings, public
speakers who interpret audience feedback and modify their message as
needed) broad variety of communication forms
Parts of the interactive communication model ANS✔✔ Sender, receiver,
message, channel, feedback, and field of experience
Fields of experience ANS✔✔ Beliefs, attitudes, and experiences that each
person brings to the conversation
Transactional communication model ANS✔✔ Fundamentally multi
directional, each person influences communication (any encounter (most
commonly face-to-face) in which you and others jointly create communication
, meaning) intuitively what most people think of as interpersonal
communication
Parts of the Transactional communication model ANS✔✔ Two+
communicators, field of experience, message, channel, noise
Interpersonal communication ANS✔✔ Dynamic form of communication
between people in which messages influence thoughts, emotions, behaviors,
and relationships.
Interpersonal communication requirements ANS✔✔ 1. it is dynamic 2. it is
transactional 3. dyadic 4. creates impact
Dyadic ANS✔✔ communication involving only two people
Dynamic ANS✔✔ Constantly changing over time
Intrapersonal communication ANS✔✔ communication with one person
(talking to self or mental conversations)
I-Thou ANS✔✔ A way to perceive a relationship based on embracing
fundamental similarities that connect you to others, striving to see things from
others' point of view and communicating in ways that emphasize honesty and
kindness
I-It ANS✔✔ A type of perception and communication that occurs when you
treat others as though they are objects that are there for your use and