Public Speaking as a Communication Process 10.1

Jennifer has just come from an ASB meeting and is excitedly explaining to Max about a new rewards program that is available at school for behavior using two thumbs up and a fist bump. Max was caught a little off guard and is just trying to make sense of what Jennifer is saying and to take it all in. Which of the following is Max practicing?

• Noise

• Decoding

• Encoding

• Feedback

The interactional model of public speaking contains much more interface than the linear model with the addition of:

• Context, noise, and encoding

• Encoding, decoding, and feedback

• Encoding, noise, and feedback

• Decoding, context, and feedback

A listener who is suffering from a migraine, and a listener who is distracted by the hum of fluorescent lighting are examples of:

• Boredom

• Encoding

• Noise

• Context

The transactional model of public speaking is a more mutual communication effort between the sender and receiver with the addition of two elements. What are the two elements?

• Decoding and context

• Context and feedback

• Noise and feedback

• Context and noise

The linear model of public speaking is often compared to a 1-sided telephone conversation and involves a _____, a _____, and a _____.

• source, channel, receiver

• message, channel, context

• source, message, decoder

• context, channel, noise