COM Exam 1 Chapters 1-6 Questions & Answers 2023/2024

COM Exam 1 Chapters 1-6 Questions & Answers 2023/2024 Noise: Physical - ANSWER-interference to both speaker and listener. Interferes with the physical transmission of the signal or message. Examples include blurred type or font, automobile noise, popup ads Noise: Physiological - ANSWER-involves biological factors in the receiver that interfere with accurate reception: hearing loss, illness, and so on. Noise: Psychological - ANSWER-refers to cognitive factors that make communication less effective. Mental interference such as biases, wandering thoughts, extreme emotionalism, close mindedness. Noise: Semantic - ANSWER-Occurs when the speaker and listener have different meaning systems, such as language, differences in dialect or jargon, use of abstract or ambiguous terms Irreversibility - ANSWER-can't take it back Inevitability - ANSWER-always taking place, even when not intended. Unrepeatability - ANSWER-can't be duplicated. Communication Model - ANSWER-Demonstrates how messages are sent and received simultaneously. These messages are often influenced by contextual factors, such as the surrounding environment, noise, channel, and meaning that exists within and among communicators. Difference between synchronous & asynchronous messages - ANSWER-A synchronous operation blocks a process till the operation completes. An asynchronous operation is non-blocking and only initiates the operation. content and relational messages - ANSWER-Content -pertaining to the world external to both speaker and listener.