Psychology 2035A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Xerostomia, Communication Apprehension, Paralanguage

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: Elizabeth Kelly

Document Summary

Interpersonal communication: an interactional process in which one person sends a message to another. A key implication of these facts is that you need to pay attention to both speaking and listening if you want to be an affective communicator. Speakers encode or transform their ideas and feelings into symbols and organize them into a message. Receiver decode or translate a speaker"s message into their own ideas and feelings: noise or interference refers to any stimulus that interferes with accurately expressing or understanding a message. It can include environmental factors and can also have semantic origins: the context the environment in which communication takes place. This can include physical environment, relationships, their history, current mood, and cultural backgrounds. Most person-to-person communications are characterized by common features: we are selective in initiating or responding to communications. Electronically mediated communication: interpersonal communication that takes place via technology. Students follow the lead of those close to them.