[NATS 4215] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (53 pages long!)

• School: York University
• Department: Natural Science
• Course: NATS 4215
• Professor: Radu Cornel Guiasu

Document Summary

Communication the provision of information from a sender to the receiver. Subsequent use of that information by the receiver in deciding how to respond. Signal sent should benefit the sender over all otherwise why send a signal at all: no response could be an answer as well. Hard for humans to establish intent in animals. Main idea is that when a signal is sent the sender has a strategy in place to influence the responses of the receiver: directing a message to receiver and trying to influence. The vehicle that provides the information is called the signal. True communication : the provision of information is not accidental and occurs because it generally benefits the sender. Properties of the environment affect the type of communication type of signals types of specialized structures that produce the structure ie vocal abilities, visual abilities. Two green herrings may be communicating with each other.