Communications - 1st Six Weeks Quiz

What is the definition for communication?

• exchange of ideas and information within the world of work.

• a person' culture that involves thoughts and ideas for understanding

• a disturbance in message that doesn't send properly

• The process of creating and exchanging meaning through symbolic interaction.

What is communication called because it involves an exchange?

• transactional

• transverse

• tyrant

• trans-cognitive

What does meaning shared by communicators involve?

• understandings

• thoughts

• ideas

• all of the above

What does it mean when communication is personal and cultural?

• A person's gestures can be changed by a another person's gestures

• a person's culture can add a new or different meaning to a phrase or gesture.

• The culture of a gesture is just a stepping stone to a new gesture

• A phrase is just a gesture in someone's idea of a cultural change

When listeners nod their heads, ask questions, or look confused, they are giving their ...___________ to the speaker.

• feedback

• channel

• appreciation

• anger or resentment

The person who receives the message from the speaker.

• message

• sender

• receiver

• channel

anything that could possibly get in the way of the message being delivered is called....

• interference

• shield

• impossible

• receiver

The person doing the talking (or sending the message) is called the...

• interperson

• GOAT

• receiver

• sender

The speaker's ideas and thoughts encoded into words is called...

• feedback

• message

• decoding

• channel

Two types of disturbances are:

• block and adjoining

• noise and barrier

• carrier and transit

• listing and supplying