What is the closest definition of communication for our class?

• Process of sending & receiving messages to share meaning

• Talking to other people

• Process of talking and listening

• Receiving messages and responding to the messages of others

Who kicks off (begins) the communication process?

• Receiver

• Messenger

• Hearers of the message

• Sender

What does it mean to 'encode' a message?

• To respond to someone's message

• To think and create meaning before sending a message

• To understand a message and translate it

• To send the message

What happens after someone receives a message?

• They send a new message

• They decode it (understand it)

• They send a response (feedback)

• They are now the sender

Which of the following can be a type of 'noise' to the communication process?

• You are daydreaming while someone talks to you

• A loud noise interrupts your conversation

• The wi-fi goes down as you try to send an email

• All of these are examples of noise

Which of the following is NOT an example of a 'channel' of the communication process?

• FaceTime

• Face-to-Face

• Saying, "Hey, what's up?" to a friend

• Discord

True or false: the sender and the receiver are both responsible for choosing a channel.

• True

• False

True or false: when noise occurs in the process, it's always something you can actually hear.

• True

• False

After the receiver decodes the message, he/she will then do what?

• Send feedback to the sender

• Send a new message

• Select a channel for the feedback

• Send a response

The "opposite" of the sender would be the _______. The opposite of encoding would be the ____.

• Receiver; message

• Receiver; channel

• Receiver; decoding

• Receiver; feedback