04:192:200 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Unobservable, Social Reality, Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research
24 Sep 2018
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Semantic: caused by sender or the encoder, includes grammatical errors, not being able to understand what the sender is saying. Physical: any external or environmental stimuli that distracts us from receiving intended message. Psychological: comes from preconceived notions that we bring to the interaction such as stereotypes, biases, and assumptions. Physiological: can be caused by sender or receiver, some examples are hunger, fatigue, stress. Contexts that affect communication: cultural, cultural climate and norms. Personal: who you are, how you see yourself, expectations. Relational: what is the relationship you have with the person. Characteristics of communication as symbolic: abstract, arbitrary, stands for something yet isn"t that thing, no necessary association between symbol and what it represents, ambiguous. Characteristics that affect communication: meaning open to more than one interpretation. Real concepts: observable, easy to measure, relationships. Specifications for the ways in which the concepts in the theory are combines.
