COMM 191 UPDATED ACTUAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
●● Source
Answer: the person responsible for inventing the idea on which he or she
intends to speak and crafting that idea to an audience
●● Encoding
Answer: taking an abstract notion and providing it meaning through the
application of symbols
●● Message
Answer: the content or idea that the source tries to convey to the
audience
●● Channel
Answer: the medium through which an encoded message is transmitted
from a source to a receiver
●● Receiver
Answer: the person or audience that messages is being transmitted to
●● Decoding
,Answer: the process of drawing meaning from the symbols that were
used to encode a message
●● Noise
Answer: anything that can change the message after the source encodes
and sends it
●● Interactive model of communication
Answer: communication theory that views communication as a two-way
process that includes feedback and the environment
●● Feedback
Answer: the receiver's response to a message that is sent to the sender
●● environment
Answer: the context in which the communication process takes place
●● Transnational model of communication
Answer: the theory that views communication as a constant process in
which all parties simultaneously play the roles of sender and receiver
●● Phobia
,Answer: a persistent, irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or
situation that leads to a compelling desire to avoid
●● Communication apprehension
Answer: the fear or anxiety associated with real or anticipated
communication with another or others
●● Self-fulfilling prophecy
Answer: convincing yourself that something is going to happen before it
does, thus leading to the occurrence of what you originally expected
●● Systematic desensitization
Answer: the process whereby a person is slowly introduced to a fear
such that each time he or she overcomes the fear the intensity is
decreased
●● Ethics
Answer: involve morals and the specific moral choices to be made by a
person
●● plagiarism
Answer: taking the intellectual achievements of another person and
presenting them as your own
, ●● global plagiarism
Answer: taking an entire piece of work and saying that it is your own
●● incremental plagiarism
Answer: using part of someone else's work and not citing it as a source
●● patchwork plagiarism
Answer: taking ideas from more than one piece of work and putting
them together into a new piece of work, and then presenting them as
original work without giving due credit to the sources
●● patchworking
Answer: taking original source material and changing a few words in it,
but not enough to consider it a paraphrase, all the while not citing the
original source material
●● culture
Answer: the distinctive ideas, customs, social behavior, products, or way
of life of a particular nation, society, people, or period
●● co-culture
Answer: groups that are impacted by a variety of smaller specific
cultures that intersect in our lives
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
●● Source
Answer: the person responsible for inventing the idea on which he or she
intends to speak and crafting that idea to an audience
●● Encoding
Answer: taking an abstract notion and providing it meaning through the
application of symbols
●● Message
Answer: the content or idea that the source tries to convey to the
audience
●● Channel
Answer: the medium through which an encoded message is transmitted
from a source to a receiver
●● Receiver
Answer: the person or audience that messages is being transmitted to
●● Decoding
,Answer: the process of drawing meaning from the symbols that were
used to encode a message
●● Noise
Answer: anything that can change the message after the source encodes
and sends it
●● Interactive model of communication
Answer: communication theory that views communication as a two-way
process that includes feedback and the environment
●● Feedback
Answer: the receiver's response to a message that is sent to the sender
●● environment
Answer: the context in which the communication process takes place
●● Transnational model of communication
Answer: the theory that views communication as a constant process in
which all parties simultaneously play the roles of sender and receiver
●● Phobia
,Answer: a persistent, irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or
situation that leads to a compelling desire to avoid
●● Communication apprehension
Answer: the fear or anxiety associated with real or anticipated
communication with another or others
●● Self-fulfilling prophecy
Answer: convincing yourself that something is going to happen before it
does, thus leading to the occurrence of what you originally expected
●● Systematic desensitization
Answer: the process whereby a person is slowly introduced to a fear
such that each time he or she overcomes the fear the intensity is
decreased
●● Ethics
Answer: involve morals and the specific moral choices to be made by a
person
●● plagiarism
Answer: taking the intellectual achievements of another person and
presenting them as your own
, ●● global plagiarism
Answer: taking an entire piece of work and saying that it is your own
●● incremental plagiarism
Answer: using part of someone else's work and not citing it as a source
●● patchwork plagiarism
Answer: taking ideas from more than one piece of work and putting
them together into a new piece of work, and then presenting them as
original work without giving due credit to the sources
●● patchworking
Answer: taking original source material and changing a few words in it,
but not enough to consider it a paraphrase, all the while not citing the
original source material
●● culture
Answer: the distinctive ideas, customs, social behavior, products, or way
of life of a particular nation, society, people, or period
●● co-culture
Answer: groups that are impacted by a variety of smaller specific
cultures that intersect in our lives
