COMS 101 QUIZ CHAPTER 11 PRACTICE TEST
2026 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ The expositional approach to the study of communication.
Answer: this approach identifies, analyzes, and attempts to explain
the existence of attitudes, values, beliefs, feelings, or behaviors that
unify people as a whole or that come to unify particular groups of
people.
◉ The rhetorical approach to the study of communication. Answer:
strives to identify and to explain the communicational steps people
take in their various quests to establish points of oneness with
others. To be more precise, this approach concentrates especially on
how communicators deliberately use information, particularly
verbal information, in their quests to convince others to adopt their
own attitudes, values, beliefs, feelings, or behaviors.
◉ Claude Shannon, Warren Weaver, and Wilbur Schramm. Answer:
twentieth-century theorists whose concepts formed the definition
and criteria of communication
◉ Sender. Answer: one person or group of persons who transmit
meaningful information
,◉ Recipient. Answer: one person or group of persons who receive
information
◉ Encoding. Answer: the sender's act, whether intentional or
unintentional, of expressing his or her attitude, value, belief, or
feeling in a tangible form, one that a recipient can perceive and
decode in a way that results in shared understanding.
◉ Decoding. Answer: the recipient's act, of perceiving or
understanding information sent from the sender
◉ Transmission. Answer: to transfer information from one person or
place to another
◉ Physical barriers to communication. Answer: examples: cognitive
impairment,
Physical challenges,
Sensory impairment,
Speech impairment
◉ Linguistic barriers to communication. Answer: misunderstanding
because of differences that distinguish two or more people's
language systems.
, ◉ belief barriers to communication. Answer: miscommunication
because of assumptions or generalizations about a certain person or
group of people
◉ stereotyping. Answer: the human tendency to form careless
beliefs about people based on their features or group identities
◉ Informed generalizations. Answer: an educated speculation about
the sender's motives and message meanings, one that is based on
credible evidence that these are, in fact, very likely what you
suppose they are
◉ words. Answer: a sound or a combination of sounds, or its
representation in writing or printing, that symbolizes and
communicates a meaning
◉ verbal messages. Answer: messages that involve the use of words
or the combination of words that are spoken, written, or printed, are
either literal or figurative
◉ nonverbal messages. Answer: involve the use of meaningful
symbols other than words for expression
◉ metaphors. Answer: (A is B or substitutes B for A) (A=B) a
common figurative form that identifies one thing in a way that
2026 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ The expositional approach to the study of communication.
Answer: this approach identifies, analyzes, and attempts to explain
the existence of attitudes, values, beliefs, feelings, or behaviors that
unify people as a whole or that come to unify particular groups of
people.
◉ The rhetorical approach to the study of communication. Answer:
strives to identify and to explain the communicational steps people
take in their various quests to establish points of oneness with
others. To be more precise, this approach concentrates especially on
how communicators deliberately use information, particularly
verbal information, in their quests to convince others to adopt their
own attitudes, values, beliefs, feelings, or behaviors.
◉ Claude Shannon, Warren Weaver, and Wilbur Schramm. Answer:
twentieth-century theorists whose concepts formed the definition
and criteria of communication
◉ Sender. Answer: one person or group of persons who transmit
meaningful information
,◉ Recipient. Answer: one person or group of persons who receive
information
◉ Encoding. Answer: the sender's act, whether intentional or
unintentional, of expressing his or her attitude, value, belief, or
feeling in a tangible form, one that a recipient can perceive and
decode in a way that results in shared understanding.
◉ Decoding. Answer: the recipient's act, of perceiving or
understanding information sent from the sender
◉ Transmission. Answer: to transfer information from one person or
place to another
◉ Physical barriers to communication. Answer: examples: cognitive
impairment,
Physical challenges,
Sensory impairment,
Speech impairment
◉ Linguistic barriers to communication. Answer: misunderstanding
because of differences that distinguish two or more people's
language systems.
, ◉ belief barriers to communication. Answer: miscommunication
because of assumptions or generalizations about a certain person or
group of people
◉ stereotyping. Answer: the human tendency to form careless
beliefs about people based on their features or group identities
◉ Informed generalizations. Answer: an educated speculation about
the sender's motives and message meanings, one that is based on
credible evidence that these are, in fact, very likely what you
suppose they are
◉ words. Answer: a sound or a combination of sounds, or its
representation in writing or printing, that symbolizes and
communicates a meaning
◉ verbal messages. Answer: messages that involve the use of words
or the combination of words that are spoken, written, or printed, are
either literal or figurative
◉ nonverbal messages. Answer: involve the use of meaningful
symbols other than words for expression
◉ metaphors. Answer: (A is B or substitutes B for A) (A=B) a
common figurative form that identifies one thing in a way that
