Types of Communication
By the Numbers
Models of Communication
Language
Listening
100
Communication with oneself
What is intrapersonal communication?
100
Number of sentences composing a thesis statement
What is 1?
100
A pathway through which messages are conveyed
What is a channel?
100
The literal meaning of a word
What is the denotative meaning?
100
Listening to learn
What is informational learning?
200
Communication between two people
What is interpersonal communication?
200
Percentage of US American adults who believe a "lack of communication" is the number one reason why marriages fail.
What is 53?
200
Anything that interferes with the encoding or decoding of a message
What is noise?
200
The ideas or concepts a word suggests in addition to its literal definition
What is the connotative meaning?
200
Listening to evaluate or analyze
What is critical listening?
300
Communication within groups of 3-20
What is small group communication?
300
Number of countries in the world on which you could focus your informative speech
What is 195?
300
A model describing communication as a one-way process
What is the action model?
300
The idea that people will comply with requests if they believe that others are also complying
What is the social validation principle?
300
Listening to experience what the speaker thinks or feels
What is empathic listening?
400
Communication with an audience larger than a small group
What is public communication?
400
Number of US states that do not have hate crime laws punishing behavior such as hate speech
What is 5? Wyoming, Arkansas, Indiana, South Carolina, and Georgia.
400
A model describing communication as a process in which everyone is simultaneously a sender and a receiver
What is the transaction model?
400
Words that can have more than one meaning
What is ambiguous language?
400
The propensity to debate a speaker’s point and formulate a reply while that person is still speaking
What is rebuttal tendency?
500
Communication to a large audience through media
What is mass communication?
500
Percentage more material that college students recalled after listening to a presentation with humor versus one without humor.
What is 14?
500
A model describing communication as a process shaped by feedback and context
What is the interaction model?
500
A theory that language shapes a person’s views of reality
What is Sapir-Whorf?
500
Pretending to listen
What is pseudolistening?
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