Nurs 204 exam 1 (A+ Guaranteed)

What is intrapersonal communication? correct answers It occurs in the form of a person's inner thoughts and beliefs, coloured by feelings that influence behaviour. It often is a hidden component of the communication process related to either nurse or client's past experience and something within the current discussion. What is interpersonal communication? correct answers A reciprocal, interactive, dynamic process, having value, cultural, emotive, and cognitive variables that influence its transmission and reception. Concerned with the transmission of information and with how people create meaning. What is the content dimension of communication? correct answers Refers to shared verbal, written, or digitally delivered data. the relationship dimension helps the receiver interpret the meaning of the message. What are channels of communication? correct answers The term used to designate one or more of the connectors through which a person receives a message. Primary channels include the five senses. Technology has introduced secondary channels of communication in the form of media messaging. What is a linear model? correct answers The simplest communication model, consisting of sender, message, receiver, and context. They identify the process of communication focus only on the sending and receipt of messages, and do not necessarily consider communication as enabling the development of co-created meanings between communicators. What is the sender? correct answers The source, or initiator of the message. The sender encodes the message. Encoding a message appropriately requires a clear understanding of the receiver's mental frame of reference. Therapeutic communication requires that the helping person as sender has a health-related purpose. What is the message? correct answers Consists of the transmitted verbal or nonverbal expression of thoughts and feelings. Effective messages are relevant, authentic, and expressed in understandable language. What is the receiver? correct answers The recipient of the message. Needs to be open to hearing what the sender is saying. Once received, the receiver decodes the message and internally interprets its meaning to make personal sense of the message. An open listening attitude and suspension of judgment strengthens the possibility of accurately decoding a sender's message. What is the context? correct answers Refers to all the factors that influence how a message is received. What is noise? correct answers Anything that interferes with the effective transmission, reception, or understanding of a message. It is a concept found in both linear and transactional models.