Liberty University COMS 101 Quiz 5 Latest Complete SolutionAll Answers Correct QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A LATEST UPDATE 2026
Liberty University COMS 101 Complete Quiz 5 Solution Set 2026 | Verified Answers A+ Rated Communis - answer - Our word "communication" derives from this Latin term meaning common, general, universal, or public. in other words "common unity" The expositional approach to the study of communication - answer - this approach identifies, analyzes, and attempts to explain the existence of attitudes, values, beliefs, feelings, or behaviors that unify people as a whole or that come to unify particular groups of people. The rhetorical approach to the study of communication - answer - strives to identify and to explain the communicational steps people take in their various quests to establish points of oneness with others. To be more precise, this approach concentrates especially on how communicators deliberately use information, particularly verbal information, in their quests to convince others to adopt their own attitudes, values, beliefs, feelings, or behaviors. Claude Shannon, Warren Weaver, and Wilbur Schramm - answer - twentieth-century theorists whose concepts formed the definition and criteria of communication Sender - answer - one person or group of persons who transmit meaningful information Recipient - answer - one person or group of persons who receive information Encoding - answer - the sender's act, whether intentional or unintentional, of expressing his or her attitude, value, belief, or feeling in a tangible form, one that a recipient can perceive and decode in a way that results in shared understanding. Decoding - answer - the recipient's act, of perceiving or understanding information sent from the sender Transmission - answer - to transfer information from one person or place to another Physical barriers to communication - answer - examples: cognitive impairment, Physical challenges, Sensory impairment, Speech impairment Linguistic barriers to communication - answer - misunderstanding because of differences that distinguish two or more people's language systems. belief barriers to communication - answer - miscommunication because of assumptions or generalizations about a certain person or group of people stereotyping - answer - the human tendency to form careless beliefs about people based on their features or group identities Informed generalizations - answer - an educated speculation about the sender's motives and message meanings, one that is based on credible evidence that these are, in fact, very likely what you suppose they are words - answer - a sound or a combination of sounds, or its representation in writing or printing, that symbolizes and communicates a meaning verbal messages - answer - messages that involve the use of words or the combination of words that are spoken, written, or printed, are either literal or figurative nonverbal messages - answer - involve the use of meaningful symbols other than words for expression metaphors - answer - (A is B or substitutes B for A) (A=B) a common figurative form that identifies one thing in a way that symbolically stands for another thing. example: A mighty fortress is our God -Martin Luther similes - answer - (A is like or as B) (A:B) explicitly compares two otherwise dissimilar things, usually via the modifiers "like" or "as" example: My love is like a red, red rose. -Robert Burns synecdoche - answer - this figurative form alludes to something by either highlighting only one aspect of it or something broader that includes it. Example: Washington as a reference to America's federal government euphemism - answer - is the use of a mild term in place of a harsh term to relay the same basic idea in a more tasteful form. Example: pro-choice instead of pro-abortion dysphemism - answer - is the use of a harsh term instead of a mild term for an intended effect. example: dinosaur instead of old person overstatement - answer - "hyperbole," is the use of exaggerated terms for emphasis but not for literal me
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