MET #2 Prerequisite Assessment

1. Situation: You are working on a group project, and one team member keeps interrupting others during discussions, making it difficult to stay focused. How will you manifest effective communication?

• Ignore the interruptions and continue talking.

• Politely address the interrupting behavior and suggest taking turns to speak.

• Interrupt back to assert your point.

2. Situation: You finally got an answer to your question about the topic discussed by your classmate during reporting. However, you need to interpret her answer first before arriving at a definite answer. What element of communication should you use?

• Decoding

• Channel

• Encoding

3. Situation: You are a news anchor telling a news story about the recent typhoon that hit the Philippines. What model of communication are you utilizing?

• Osgood-Schramm Model

• Shannon-Weaver Model

• SMCR Model

4. Situation: You are in a conversation with someone who speaks softly and quickly, making it hard to catch everything they are saying. How will you manifest effective communication?

• Ask them to speak louder and slower.

• Nod and smile, pretending to understand.

• Politely request them to repeat or clarify what they said.

5. Situation: You are thinking of how to tell your true feelings to the one whom you admire the most. What process of communication are you manifesting?

• The speaker generates an idea.

• The speaker encodes an idea or converts it into words/actions.

• The receiver decodes or interprets messages based on context.