COMM 101 UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. four basic traits of human communication
Answer:
Personal life Personal Relationships Professional Life Civic Life
Question:
2. Content level of meaning
Answer:
contains the literal message.
EX: "May I come in" literally means if they can come in
Question:
3. Relationship level of meaning
Answer:
expresses the relationship between communicators.
EX: if a persona asks "may I come in" in an angry voice and is your supervisor then the relationship-level
meaning as a signal is that your supervisor is not satisfied. It often expresses a desire to connect with
another person.
Relationship level of meaning (depicted by the person) is more important than content level. (obvious)
Question:
4. History of communication disapline
Answer:
comm. field came into existence to answer a pressing need of the people of Syracuse. Rome and Greece
knowledge of rhetoric was Aristotle's thinking about how persuasion occurs:
Ethos- proof based on speaker credibility
Pathos- proof that appeals to listeners' emotions
Logos- is based on logic and reasoning.
Question:
5. Quantitative research methods
Answer:
gather information in numerical form p.28 ex: 7.9 percent of people watch TV in china.
Question:
6. Qualitative research methods
Answer:
provide non-numerical knowledge about communication p. 29
Question:
7. Linear Model
, Answer:
It is straight-line communication found typically in mass communication; think television, radio,
newspapers, etc. There is no means for immediate feedback.
Sender is sending a message to the receiver
Question:
8. Interactive Model
Answer:
A message is sent and received, then the roles reverse.
Question:
9. Transactional Model
Answer:
receiver and sender can play the same roles simultaneously, as sometimes happens, as messages can be
sent back and forth simultaneously.
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10. Intarpersonal Communication
Answer:
is communication with ourselves, or self-talk
Question:
11. Interpersonal Communication
Answer:
Communication between two people
Question:
12. Small- group communication
Answer:
communication in decision-making committees and work teams
Question:
13. Public Communication
Answer:
Public Speaking
Question:
14. Organizational Communication
Answer:
is the general term for the understanding about an organization's identity and codes of thought and action
that members of an organization share
Question:
15. Mass Media
Answer:
body of research we have learned a great deal about how mass media represent and influence cultural
values.
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. four basic traits of human communication
Answer:
Personal life Personal Relationships Professional Life Civic Life
Question:
2. Content level of meaning
Answer:
contains the literal message.
EX: "May I come in" literally means if they can come in
Question:
3. Relationship level of meaning
Answer:
expresses the relationship between communicators.
EX: if a persona asks "may I come in" in an angry voice and is your supervisor then the relationship-level
meaning as a signal is that your supervisor is not satisfied. It often expresses a desire to connect with
another person.
Relationship level of meaning (depicted by the person) is more important than content level. (obvious)
Question:
4. History of communication disapline
Answer:
comm. field came into existence to answer a pressing need of the people of Syracuse. Rome and Greece
knowledge of rhetoric was Aristotle's thinking about how persuasion occurs:
Ethos- proof based on speaker credibility
Pathos- proof that appeals to listeners' emotions
Logos- is based on logic and reasoning.
Question:
5. Quantitative research methods
Answer:
gather information in numerical form p.28 ex: 7.9 percent of people watch TV in china.
Question:
6. Qualitative research methods
Answer:
provide non-numerical knowledge about communication p. 29
Question:
7. Linear Model
, Answer:
It is straight-line communication found typically in mass communication; think television, radio,
newspapers, etc. There is no means for immediate feedback.
Sender is sending a message to the receiver
Question:
8. Interactive Model
Answer:
A message is sent and received, then the roles reverse.
Question:
9. Transactional Model
Answer:
receiver and sender can play the same roles simultaneously, as sometimes happens, as messages can be
sent back and forth simultaneously.
Question:
10. Intarpersonal Communication
Answer:
is communication with ourselves, or self-talk
Question:
11. Interpersonal Communication
Answer:
Communication between two people
Question:
12. Small- group communication
Answer:
communication in decision-making committees and work teams
Question:
13. Public Communication
Answer:
Public Speaking
Question:
14. Organizational Communication
Answer:
is the general term for the understanding about an organization's identity and codes of thought and action
that members of an organization share
Question:
15. Mass Media
Answer:
body of research we have learned a great deal about how mass media represent and influence cultural
values.
