Definition and Process of Communication

Week 1: Mastery Exercise in Nature and Elements of Communication

Claire: Hi, Lani. Have you talked to your mom about the sleepover at my house?

Lani: Yes, I have. But she won’t allow me to go because it’s on Sunday, and we have classes the day after that.

Claire: It’s not on Sunday, Lani. It’s going to be on Saturday.

Lani: Oh, I must have misheard you on the phone because my siblings were talking so loudly when we were speaking about it. I’ll ask my mother again.

Claire: Okay. I’m hoping you’ll be able to make it.

Multiple Choice

What is the stimulus of the given communication?

• Claire’s desire to know whether Lani has already decided to join the party in her house.

• Claire’s desire to know whether Lani has already talked to her mom about the sleepover.

• Claire’s desire to know whether Lani has already prepared for the sleepover.

Multiple Choice

What was the feedback given?

• Lani said her mother did not allow her to go because the sleepover is on a Sunday.

• Lani said her mother did not allow her to go because the sleepover is such a waste of time.

• Lani said her mother did not allow her to go because the sleepover is boring.

Multiple Choice

What caused the miscommunication between the two over the phone when they talked earlier?

• the loud music next door

• the loud talking of Lani’s friends

• the loud talking of Lani’s siblings

Open Ended

Was there a breakdown in Claire and Lani’s phone conversation?

Identify whether each situation is best represented by the linear, interactive, or transactional communication model. 

Identify the type of nonverbal communication from the pictures.

Multiple Choice

• paralanguage

• haptics

• chronemics

• kinesics

• proxemics

Multiple Choice

• haptics

• chronemics

• kinesics

• proxemics

• paralanguage

Multiple Choice

• haptics

• chronemics

• kinesics

• proxemics

• paralanguage

Multiple Choice

• haptics

• chronemics

• kinesics

• proxemics

• paralanguage