COMM 107 Midterm: Comm Study Guide Exam 1.docx

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Communication
• Course: COMM 107
• Professor: Kim Hannah

Document Summary

The senses seeing, hearing, smelling, touching: decode: translate the received message, feedback: respond to the message (and then same cycle continues for feedback, effective encoding and decoding without noise: Source encodes a message and sends it to a receiver. Receiver then receives and decodes the message. Source encodes and sends a message to a receiver. Then, receiver encodes feedback and sends it back to the source. Two-directional process; taking turns/formal conversation: transactional: (second diagram above); more realistic model of human communication. Lots going on at once: other influences on communication, media and culture. Media influences our communication: radio, tv, the internet, film, newspapers, etc. Speakers in the u. s. have the right to first amendment speech. Ethical communication: nca credo for ethical communication. Chapter 11 public speaking: planning the message: public communication, involved a transaction between the speaker and audience, listenable speech.