COMM 107 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Intrapersonal Communication, Environmental Noise, Interpersonal Communication

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Communication
• Course: COMM 107
• Professor: anderson

Document Summary

Intrapersonal communication (personal communication): communicating with yourself: ex: thought processing, personal decision making, listening and determining self concept. Interpersonal communication: communication between two or more persons who establish a communicative relationship: ex: face to face or mediated conversations, interviews, and small group discussions. Public communication: a speaker communicating their message to an audience. Communication is: dynamic because the process is constantly in a state of change, continuous because it never stops, irreversible, interactive because a cycle of action and reaction becomes the basis for our communication, contextual. Factors of perception: culture, communication skills, physical and emotional states, experiences, attitudes, memory, expectations. Encode: to take ideas and put them into message form. Primary signal system: the senses (seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling and touching) The act of speech is not itself communication: speech is a biological act, communication is more complex. Process begins when the source is consciously or unconsciously stimulated by some event, idea or object.