COMM 250 Lecture 1: COMM250 Exam 1 TXT notes.docx

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Communication
• Course: COMM 250
• Professor: Jennifer Hubbard

Document Summary

Defining communication: def: a social process in which individuals employ symbols to establish and interpret meaning in their environment, social: the notion that people and interactions are part of the communication process, process: ongoing, dynamic, and unending occurrence, symbol: arbitrary label given to a phenomenon. Is all behavior communication: palo alto team: a group of scholars who believed that a person cannot not communicate , making communication and behavior synonymous, later recanted, said that all behavior is not communicative, although it may be informative , motley believes that one can not communicate. Models of understanding: communication as action, interaction and transaction: models: simplified representations of the communication process, communication as action: the linear model, linear model of communication: one way view of communication that assumes a message is sent by a source to a receiver through a channel, source: originator of message, message: words, sounds, actions or gestures in an interaction, receiver: recipient of message, channel: pathway to communication.