COMM-2010 Study Guide - Final Guide: Nonverbal Communication, Book Design, Free Society
13 Mar 2018
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Your exam questions will be drawn from the following topics. Be sure to review your course syllabus for information regarding exam format, date, time, and points possible. Reasons for building useful communication theories/role of communication in marketplace of ideas (front matter of chapter pg. It is important to realize that theories are useful guides for behavior. Source: designates the originator of a message: a sender is someone who transmits messages but does not necessarily originate them, a source could be a single person, a group of people, or even an institution. Message: the stimulus that the source transmits to the receiver: may be verbal, nonverbal, or both, tone of voice, gesture, and facial expressions are examples of nonverbal messages. In human communication transactions, the stimuli are signs and symbols: all individuals function as source and receiver, because humans perform both the functions of encoding and decoding, they have been labeled transceivers .
