COMM 107 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Environmental Noise, Decoupage, Stress Management

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Communication
• Course: COMM 107
• Professor: Christina San Inocencio

Document Summary

Conscious or unconscious, intentional or unintentional, in which feelings are expressed as verbal or nonverbal messages. Intrapersonal communication: communication with yourself, thought processing, decision making, listening, determining self concept. Interpersonal communication: communication between two or more people, face to face, interviews, mediated convo. Public communications: message to the audience. **communication is constantly changing, never ending, and irreversible** Selective communication: combines sounds into complicated sentences, know how to send intentional messages to one another. Perceptions affect your interpretations: your culture, communication skills, physical and emotional states, experiences, attitudes, memory and expectations. We encode, send ideas through the primary signal system to someone else"s primary signal system and decodes the message: **the degree of effectiveness depends on a mutual understanding of signals being used** Source of a message: stimulated by an event, object, or idea. The channel: one of the 5 senses. The receiver: person decoding the message. Feedback: verbal or nonverbal, indicated weather or not the receiver understands your signals.