communications: com process

Interference

anything that gets in the way of clear communication ex: physical noise, psychological noise, or semantic noise

Context

circumstances of a situation; environment

Encoding

the conversion of a sender's ideas and thoughts into a message, usually in the form of words or signs

Decoding

the process by which the receiver translates the written, verbal, or symbolic form of a message into an understood message

Message

verbal and nonverbal elements of communication to which people give meaning

Noise

Anything that interferes with, distorts, or slows down the transmission of information

Feedback

Is the response of the decoder that was received through a channel by an encoder

Channel

Is the space in which the message is transmitted. Channel is the method, or medium, by which the sender conveys the message.

Receiver

The person who decodes a message (decoder)

Sender

(Encoder) initiates communication and sends the message to the receiver (decoder)

Barriers

3 barriers = Psychological noise (external) Physical noise (internal) Semantic noise