Models of Communications

According to this model, communication has occurred when a message has been sent and received.

• Transactional Model

• Transmission Model

• Constitutive Model

• Interactive Model

The following names also apply to this model, EXCEPT:

• Pipeline Model

• Linear Model

• Container Model

• Constitutive Model

Which of the following elements is missing in the transmission model?

• feedback

• noise

• receiver

• sender

The Transactional Model was proposed by ___________________.

• Shannon and Weaver

• Barnlund

• Watzlawick

• Craig

Which of the following ideas is NOT a proposition of the Transactional Model?

• Meaning is in people, not in words.

• Communication is complete once the message has been sent and received.

• Communication creates shared meaning.

• Communication involves both content and relationship dynamic.

The following elements were added to the Transactional Model, EXCEPT:

• nonverbal communication

• feedback

• context

• meaning

According to the Transactional Model, people are both sender and receiver at the same time.

• true

• false

It is a communication model which proposes that communication creates our social world.

• Transmission Model

• Transactional Model

• Constitutive Model

• Pipeline Model

The following are propositions of the Constitutive Model, EXCEPT:

• Communication creates and produces our social world.

• Communication is a driving force in our lives, in our relationships.

• Communication is the central activity in our lives that creates all other social forces in society.

• We cannot live without communication.

The best model to explain the complexities of the human dynamics of face-to-face communication is the Transmission Model.

• true

• false