Communication Process

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Chapter 2

• Communication Process

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Components of Comm. Process

• Context - The people, occasion, task.
• Physical Environment - Your surroundings are.
  Affects interaction setting.
• Climate - Emotional, attitudinal, and
  intellectual tone.

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• Communicator - speaker creates meaning, sends and
  receives msgs, exchanges meanings.
• Message - meaning, feeling, general energy from
  communicators.
• Channel - space where the message must pass.
  Method of sending the message.

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• Noise - interferes or disrupts communication.
• Internal inside of the communicator.
• External distraction of the physical
  environment.
• Barrier - blocks communication.
• Feedback - assures communication has occurred.
  Allows you to modify or adjust your message.
  Provides insight.

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The Communicator

• Sender-Receiver the person who sends the message
  to someone. Also processes feedback given.
• Receiver-Sender person who receives the message.
  Obtains provides feedback.

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Sender-Receiver

• Sensory Perception taking in data of the
  message though the 5 senses.
• Encoding mental process of assigning meaning
  and language to data.
• Transmitting physical process of sending verbal
  nonverbal messages.

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Components of a Message

• Content the information.
• Feeling when you respond, you send your
  feelings along with the actual text.
• Relationship how well you know or dont know
  each other affects the interpretation of messages.