04:189:101 Lecture 6: Intro to Communication Systems

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Communication and Informatio
• Course: 04:189:101
• Professor: J E N Mandelbaum

Document Summary

Some systems concepts: systems interconnected and interdependent parts, boundaries edges of a system; holds parts together, ex. Pan holding cake, walls in room, start and end time: environment physical surroundings and influences, separated from system by boundary, ex. College ave, scott hall, weather: closed/open systems, closed system isolated from environment, open system continual give and take with the environment, ex. Class: living systems open systems that go through life cycles, ex. Systems theory relevant to study of communication: communication enables systems to operate as systems, provides for inter-relation and interdependence of systems, aspects of communication that allow this to happen, interdependence, adaption. Communication modes: visual messages, tactile messages, olfactory messages (smell)/ gustatory messages (taste, auditory messages. Are you smarter than a chimp: numbers shown for 7/10 of a second (chimps and humans correct 80% of the time, numbers shown for 4/10 of a second (chimps correct 80% of time & humans correct.