COMD 133 BYU Midterm questions
with complete solutions 2025/2026
What is Communication? - correct answer ✔✔Process of sharing info between 2 or more
persons or transmission of thoughts or feelings from mind of the speaker to the mind of a
listener. Active process.
Why do people communicate? - correct answer ✔✔Request things,
share things,
protest,
share affect (emotion),
to make contact,
to maintain relationships
What processes are involved in communication? - correct answer ✔✔Formulation,
Transmission
Reception
Comprehension
Processes involved: Formulation - correct answer ✔✔Pulling together thoughts, ideas
Process involved: Transmission - correct answer ✔✔What you do to convey that (writing,
gesture, talking)
Process involved: Reception - correct answer ✔✔Ability to see or hear, perceiving it
, Process involved: Comprehension - correct answer ✔✔Making sense out of it
Language - correct answer ✔✔Socially shared code that uses a conventional system of arbitrary
symbols to represent ideas about the world that are meaningful to others who know about the
same code. -Nelson
Components of language: Semantics - correct answer ✔✔Content (meaning)
Semanticity - correct answer ✔✔- represent ideas outside of the here and now
Rate of acquisition - correct answer ✔✔developmental pattern (hi,bye,mom...)
Syntax - correct answer ✔✔form (grammar)
Pragmatics - correct answer ✔✔use (turn taking, maintenance, repair)
Define social communication - correct answer ✔✔Using language in interpersonally appropriate
ways to influence people and interpret ideas
In what settings do speech-language-pathologists (SLP) and Audiologists work? - correct answer
✔✔Schools, rehab centers, hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, home health, universities, private
practice
With whom do they work (what populations) - correct answer ✔✔Everyone! All ages!
What is the Certificate of Clinical Competence (ASHA), and how would you earn this? - correct
answer ✔✔After you receive your masters in speech language pathology, you have to complete
hours under supervision of a supervisor. Then when finish those hours you receive your
certificate and don't have to have a supervisor anymore.
with complete solutions 2025/2026
What is Communication? - correct answer ✔✔Process of sharing info between 2 or more
persons or transmission of thoughts or feelings from mind of the speaker to the mind of a
listener. Active process.
Why do people communicate? - correct answer ✔✔Request things,
share things,
protest,
share affect (emotion),
to make contact,
to maintain relationships
What processes are involved in communication? - correct answer ✔✔Formulation,
Transmission
Reception
Comprehension
Processes involved: Formulation - correct answer ✔✔Pulling together thoughts, ideas
Process involved: Transmission - correct answer ✔✔What you do to convey that (writing,
gesture, talking)
Process involved: Reception - correct answer ✔✔Ability to see or hear, perceiving it
, Process involved: Comprehension - correct answer ✔✔Making sense out of it
Language - correct answer ✔✔Socially shared code that uses a conventional system of arbitrary
symbols to represent ideas about the world that are meaningful to others who know about the
same code. -Nelson
Components of language: Semantics - correct answer ✔✔Content (meaning)
Semanticity - correct answer ✔✔- represent ideas outside of the here and now
Rate of acquisition - correct answer ✔✔developmental pattern (hi,bye,mom...)
Syntax - correct answer ✔✔form (grammar)
Pragmatics - correct answer ✔✔use (turn taking, maintenance, repair)
Define social communication - correct answer ✔✔Using language in interpersonally appropriate
ways to influence people and interpret ideas
In what settings do speech-language-pathologists (SLP) and Audiologists work? - correct answer
✔✔Schools, rehab centers, hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, home health, universities, private
practice
With whom do they work (what populations) - correct answer ✔✔Everyone! All ages!
What is the Certificate of Clinical Competence (ASHA), and how would you earn this? - correct
answer ✔✔After you receive your masters in speech language pathology, you have to complete
hours under supervision of a supervisor. Then when finish those hours you receive your
certificate and don't have to have a supervisor anymore.
