Communication Process and Ethics - Public Speaking Class

What element of communication is encircled or highlighted in the picture?

• Feedback
• Receiver
• Sender
• Message

Answer explanation

The communication process begins with the sender, who is also called the communicator or source.

What element of communication is encircled or highlighted in the picture?

• encoding

• channel
• feedback
• receiver

Answer explanation

It is the process of taking ideas, thoughts feelings, or mental images, associating those with words, and then speaking those words to convey a message.

What element of communication is encircled or highlighted in the picture?

• medium

• receiver
• message
• sender

Answer explanation

The message or content is the information that the sender wants to relay to the receiver. Additional subtext can be conveyed through body language and tone of voice.

What element of communication is encircled or highlighted in the picture?

• decoding

• Sender
• Medium
• Message

Answer explanation

Also called the channel, the medium is how a message is transmitted. Text messages, for example, are transmitted through the medium of cell phones.

What element of communication is encircled or highlighted in the picture?

• receiver
• encoding

• decoding

• feedback

Answer explanation

Decoding is the reverse process of encoding. It involves listening to words, thinking about them, and converting those words into mental images, thoughts, feelings, and ideas.

What element of communication is encircled or highlighted in the picture?

• Message
• Sender
• Feedback
• Receiver

Answer explanation

The person to whom a message is directed is called the receiver or the interpreter.

What element of communication is encircled or highlighted in the picture?

• Feedback
• Message
• Sender
• Channel

Answer explanation

The communication process reaches its final point when the message has been successfully transmitted, received, and understood.

Which of the following refers to anything that interferes with or distorts the message transmission or reception?

• Noise
• Transmission
• Signal
• Message

Which of the following is the process of converting a message into a form such as words that can be transmitted?

• Encoding

• Transmission

• Decoding

• Feedback

Which element of communication is responsible for interpreting the message received?

• Feedback

• Sender

• Receiver

• Channel