CMST 2010 Chapter 1 terms pt 1

a fear or an anxiety pertaining to the commnication process

a fear or anxiety pertaining to communicaiton with people from differnt cultural backgrounds

the proces of message transaction between two people to creat and sustain shared meaning

when used to describe interpersonal commuication, an ongoing, unending, vibrant activity that always changes

the transaction of verbal and nonverbal messages being sent simultienously between two people

what communicators create together through te use of verbal and nonverbal messages

visual, simplified representation of complex relationships in the communication process

a characterization of communication as a one-way process that transmit a message from a sender to a reciever

the source of a message

spoke, written, or unspoken information sent froma sender to a reciever

the intended target of a message

a pathway through which a message is sent

anything that interfears with accurate transmission or reception of a message.

any stimuli outside of a sender or reciever that interfere with te transmision or reception of a message. also called external noise

biological influences on a sender or a reciever that interfere with the transmission or reception of a message

bises, prejudices, and feeligns that interfere with the accurate transmission or reception of a message. also called internal noise

occurs when senders and recievers apply differnt meanings to the same message. This may take the form of jargon, technical language and other words and phrases taht are familiar to the sender but not understood by the reciever

the environment in which a message is sent

the tangible environment in wich communication occurs

the cultural enviornment in which communication occurs

the relational and emotional environment in wich communication occurs

a type of context in which messages are understood in relationsihp to previosly sent messages

a characterization of communication as a two-way process in which a message is sent fomr sender to reciever and from reciever to sender

a verbal or nonverbal response to a messge

the feedback we give ourselves when we assess our own communicaiton

the feedback we receive from other people

a charatierzation of communication as the reciprocal sending and recieving of messages. In a transactual encounter, the sender and reciever do not simply send meaning from one to another and then back again, rather ther build shared meaning through simultaneous sending and recieving

the infleuce of a persons culture past experiences personal history and heredity on the communciation proses

the prior relationship experience two people share

negotiable rules that indicate what two relational parteners expect and allow when theyt alk to each other

the ways in which the particular relationship of two relational partners stands apart from other relationships they experience