COMM 107 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Ethnocentrism, Ingroups And Outgroups, Intrapersonal Communication

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

Document Summary

Communication - conscious or unconscious, intentional or unintentional process in which feelings and ideas are expressed as verbal/nonverbal messages that are sent, received or comprehend. Intrapersonal communication (aka personal communication) is communicating with yourself (through processing, decision making) Interpersonal communication is communication between two or more persons who establish a communicative relationship. Public communication is a speaker communicating to an audience. You don"t really change your response based on how the audience reacts--you"re giving a speech. Human beings are capable of selective communication - we can choose the symbol that best represents what we want to express. When we communicate, we encode (take ideas and put them into message form) and send them through our primary signal system (senses), to someone who decodes (translates) the message. During communication, encoded messages are carried through channels (usually sight or sound) Feedback - the response, a verbal or nonverbal reaction that the receiver has.