OCP TEST 1 | BJU | COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE, PRACTICE
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 2026/2027
Instrumental communication - ANS ✔✔Messages aimed at accomplishing the task at hand
Relational communication - ANS ✔✔Messages that shape and reflect the way people regard one
another
Identity management - ANS ✔✔The practice of presenting yourself in ways that produce a preferred
image and distinctive sense of self
Sender - ANS ✔✔Person who sends the message
Encoding - ANS ✔✔The sender must choose certain words or nonverbal methods to send an intentional
message
Channel - ANS ✔✔a pathway through which messages are conveyed
Decoding - ANS ✔✔receiving a message and interpreting its meaning
Feedback - ANS ✔✔The receiver's response to a message
Noise - ANS ✔✔anything that interferes with, distorts, or slows down the transmission of information
Environmental noise - ANS ✔✔Someone talking
Physiological noise - ANS ✔✔Illness or health
Psychological noise - ANS ✔✔Biases , defensiveness
Richness - ANS ✔✔Amount of information available in a channel
Speed - ANS ✔✔How quickly the exchange of messages occurs
Control - ANS ✔✔The degree of control one has in the message
Oral communication - ANS ✔✔Is better for immediate feedback and visual support
Written messages - ANS ✔✔Is more formal
Communication networks - ANS ✔✔Patterns of contact by the flow of messages among communicators
through time and space
Equivocal terms - ANS ✔✔Are those with two different meaning
Biased language - ANS ✔✔Terms that seem objective but actually conceal an emotional bias
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 2026/2027
Instrumental communication - ANS ✔✔Messages aimed at accomplishing the task at hand
Relational communication - ANS ✔✔Messages that shape and reflect the way people regard one
another
Identity management - ANS ✔✔The practice of presenting yourself in ways that produce a preferred
image and distinctive sense of self
Sender - ANS ✔✔Person who sends the message
Encoding - ANS ✔✔The sender must choose certain words or nonverbal methods to send an intentional
message
Channel - ANS ✔✔a pathway through which messages are conveyed
Decoding - ANS ✔✔receiving a message and interpreting its meaning
Feedback - ANS ✔✔The receiver's response to a message
Noise - ANS ✔✔anything that interferes with, distorts, or slows down the transmission of information
Environmental noise - ANS ✔✔Someone talking
Physiological noise - ANS ✔✔Illness or health
Psychological noise - ANS ✔✔Biases , defensiveness
Richness - ANS ✔✔Amount of information available in a channel
Speed - ANS ✔✔How quickly the exchange of messages occurs
Control - ANS ✔✔The degree of control one has in the message
Oral communication - ANS ✔✔Is better for immediate feedback and visual support
Written messages - ANS ✔✔Is more formal
Communication networks - ANS ✔✔Patterns of contact by the flow of messages among communicators
through time and space
Equivocal terms - ANS ✔✔Are those with two different meaning
Biased language - ANS ✔✔Terms that seem objective but actually conceal an emotional bias