04:189:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Liberal Arts Education, Body Language

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

Document Summary

Communication the way people create, convey, select and interpret the messages that inform and shape their lives. Process through which individuals in relationships, groups, organizations and societies create and respond to messages in order to relate to the environment and one another pg. 18. Procedures by which one mind accepts another. Transmission of a message from a source to a receiver with conscious intent to affect the letters behavior. Theories : guides for analysis and action, guide to understanding. Theories to help us describe, explain, predict and sometimes control phenomena and circumstances we encounter. Without personal theories we would have to approach each situation as new and unique. Develop over time in response to the situations and people we encounter. Based on individual experiences with acquaintances, friends, colleagues and family members. Often do not discuss our theories or the experiences on which they were based. Component of model based on paradigm of ordinary conversation.