Exam 1: Human Communication

Strategies are the specific plans of action you use to achieve a goal.

The concept of internal noise in communication models can include the temperature, disturbances, and odors inside a room that interfere with your ability to be an attentive and effective communicator.

Critical thinking is not a way to tear down a statement or belittle someone.

Linear models of communication

If you ask a Muslim friend to join you for lunch during the month of Ramadan, the "noise" that prevents you from achieving your purpose is that you don't know or have forgotten that Muslims fast all day during that holy month.

The earliest type of communication model, known as the interactive communication model, functions only in one direction.

Which key competency of effective communication is affected by noise in the following example? "When no one signed up to volunteer for the soup kitchen, Wendell realized he set his goal in a way that asked them to donate too much of their valuable time."

Randy watches the Super Bowl game with his friends at a neighborhood party. Lucky Levar has tickets and goes to the game. When they see each other the next day, Randy complains that it was "no contest" while Levar thinks the game was thrilling. What is the most likely communication-related reason Randy and Levar experienced the game differently?

If something is unethical, it is also illegal.