COM 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Caffeine, Communication Apprehension, Systematic Desensitization
13 Sep 2016
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Intrapersonal- occurs within the self (thinking, assigning meaning to messages and events) Group- occurs between 3+ people, involves a leader. Mass- society wide communication (large audience, uses technology) i. e. oprah talks about her favorite book. Most audience members are not known to the sender (not everyone knows. Most moving messages (ex: through tv and radio) Big idea: the bigger the form of communication, the less feedback. A model used to explain the process of communication. Consists of source (encodes/originator) message (information conveyed) channel (5 senses) and receiver (decodes) Overcoming noise (could be actual noise, language barrier) Async feedback is when the source sends a message and the receiver can not send a response back. (oprah can talk to you through the tv, you can"t talk to oprah through the tv) External noise- perceived by the senses (actual noise) Internal noise- within the speaker (when someone is thinking about something else while you"re talking.
