Key Terms and Definitions for Lesson 1, COM100
Term Human Communication: Definition (from textbook) The process of making sense out of the world and sharing that sense with others by creating meaning through verbal and non-verbal messages The beliefs, values, and moral principles by which one determines what is right or wrong Originator of a thought or emotion who puts it into a code that can be understood by a receiver Person who decodes a message and attempts to make sense out of what the source has encoded A process of translating ideas, feelings, and thoughts into a code A process of interpreting ideas, feelings, and thoughts that have been translated into a code Written, spoken, and unspoken elements of communication to which people assign meaning Pathway through which messages are sent Interference—literal, situational, or psychological—that hinders the accurate encoding or decoding of a message Response to a message Physical, historical, and psychological communication environment Example A conversation with your significant other

Ethics:

“Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.” Someone who speaks to you

Source:

Receiver:

Someone you’re speaking to

Encoding:

You consciously decide what you’re going to say You are trying to understand what someone else is saying

Decoding:

Message:

Something you try to say to someone else

Channel: Noise:

Speech You’re trying to talk to someone who is listening to her iPod You speak; someone answers The “field of meaning”

Feedback: Context:

Interpersonal communication:

Impersonal communication:

Intrapersonal communication:

Small group communication:

Dyad: Mediated communication:

Mass communication:

Self: Self-concept:

Communication that occurs simultaneously between two people who attempt to mutually influence each other, usually for the purposes of