CMN 101 midterm Exam #1 Questions with correct
answers
Definition of Communication - ✔✔The process of generating meaning by sending
and receiving verbal and nonverbal symbols and signs that are influenced by
multiple contexts
5 Forms of communication - ✔✔Intrapersonal
interpersonal
Group
Public
Mass communication
3 Processes/models of communication - ✔✔transaction, transmission, interaction
transaction - ✔✔views communication as integrated into our social realities.
Process in which communicators generate social realities within social, relational,
and cultural contexts. We are simultaneously senders and receivers. More
complex understanding of context, message transmission and reception, shapes
our realities. Social context, relational context, cultural context.
transmission - ✔✔linear, one way process. Sender intentionally transmits a
message to a receiver. Allows for environmental and semantic noise. Example:
texting
Interaction model - ✔✔process in which participants alternate positions as sender
and receiver and generate meaning by sending messages and receiving feedback
within physical and psychological contexts. Feedback is a two way process,
, interactive. Less message focused, more interaction focused. Concerned with
communication process itself.
4 different needs communication fills - ✔✔Physical
Instrumental
Relational
identity
James Carey's Definition of Communication - ✔✔Communication is a symbolic
process whereby reality is produced, maintained, repaired, and transformed
4 Principles of Communication - ✔✔1. Communication is a process; it is ongoing.
A range of conscious/unconscious expression "Punctuation"
2. Communication is irreversible.
You can't "unsend" a message. Coldplay "Back to the Start"
3. Communication norms are created in & guided by culture & context.
We are each socialized into different cultural norms.
Individualistic versus collectivist
Sapir/Whorf hypothesis (the language we use in our culture affects how we see
the world)
4. Communication is learned.
Aussie language: jug, boot, esky, slab
Phatic communication: scripted or routine exchanges
answers
Definition of Communication - ✔✔The process of generating meaning by sending
and receiving verbal and nonverbal symbols and signs that are influenced by
multiple contexts
5 Forms of communication - ✔✔Intrapersonal
interpersonal
Group
Public
Mass communication
3 Processes/models of communication - ✔✔transaction, transmission, interaction
transaction - ✔✔views communication as integrated into our social realities.
Process in which communicators generate social realities within social, relational,
and cultural contexts. We are simultaneously senders and receivers. More
complex understanding of context, message transmission and reception, shapes
our realities. Social context, relational context, cultural context.
transmission - ✔✔linear, one way process. Sender intentionally transmits a
message to a receiver. Allows for environmental and semantic noise. Example:
texting
Interaction model - ✔✔process in which participants alternate positions as sender
and receiver and generate meaning by sending messages and receiving feedback
within physical and psychological contexts. Feedback is a two way process,
, interactive. Less message focused, more interaction focused. Concerned with
communication process itself.
4 different needs communication fills - ✔✔Physical
Instrumental
Relational
identity
James Carey's Definition of Communication - ✔✔Communication is a symbolic
process whereby reality is produced, maintained, repaired, and transformed
4 Principles of Communication - ✔✔1. Communication is a process; it is ongoing.
A range of conscious/unconscious expression "Punctuation"
2. Communication is irreversible.
You can't "unsend" a message. Coldplay "Back to the Start"
3. Communication norms are created in & guided by culture & context.
We are each socialized into different cultural norms.
Individualistic versus collectivist
Sapir/Whorf hypothesis (the language we use in our culture affects how we see
the world)
4. Communication is learned.
Aussie language: jug, boot, esky, slab
Phatic communication: scripted or routine exchanges
