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Sender
the person creating the message)
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Encodes
puts thoughts into symbols and gestures)
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Message
The information being transmitted
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Channel
The medium through which the message passes
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Receiver
The person attending to the message
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Decodes
Makes sense of the message
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Noise
Distractions that disrupt transmission
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Instrumental Goals
Getting others to behave in ways we want.
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Linear Communication Model
Depicts communication as something a sender "does to" a receiver.
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Transactional Communication Model
- Uses the word communicator instead of send and receiver. This term reflects the fact that people typically send and receive
- messages simultaneously and not in a unidirectional or back-and-forth
- manner, as suggested by the linear model.
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Environments
Fields of experience that affect how they understand others' behavior.
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Interpersonal Communication
- is a transactional process
- involving participants who occupy different
- but overlapping environments and create
- meaning and relationships through the
- exchange of messages, many of which
- are affected by external, physiological,
- and psychological noise.
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Dyad
Two interacting people.
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Content Dimension
Involves information being explicitly discussed.
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Relational Dimension
That expresses how you feel about the other person.
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Communication Competence
Involves achieving one's goals in a manner that, in most cases, maintains or enhances the relationship in which it occurs.
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Cognitive Complexity
Describe the ability to construct a variety of frameworks for viewing an issue.
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Self-Monitoring
Describes the process of paying close attention to one's behavior and using these observations to shape the way one behaves.
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