CMS 100 Exam #1questions with correct answers

Human Communication CORRECT ANSWER The process of making sense out of the world and sharing that sense with others by creating meaning through verbal and nonverbal messages. Symbol CORRECT ANSWER A word, sound, gesture, or visual image that represents a thought, concept, object, or experience. Ethics CORRECT ANSWER The beliefs, values, and moral principles by which we determine what is right or wrong. Encoding CORRECT ANSWER The process of translating ideas, feelings, and thoughts into a code. Decoding CORRECT ANSWER The process of interpreting ideas, feelings, and thoughts that have been translated into a code. Receiver CORRECT ANSWER The person who decodes a message and attempts to make sense of what the source has encoded. Noise CORRECT ANSWER Interference, either literal or psychological, that hinders the accurate encoding or decoding of a message. Context CORRECT ANSWER The physical, historical, and psychological communication environment. Mediated Communication CORRECT ANSWER Any communication that is carried out using some channel other than those used in face-to-face communication. Asynchronous Communication CORRECT ANSWER Communication in which timing is out of sync; there is a time delay between when you send a message and when it is received.