The Communication Model
Context
Vocabulary
100

The person who sends the message and the other person who receives the message

What is the sender and receiver?

100

Size, layout, temperature, and lighting

What is physical context or environmental factors?

100

people that are in the same level as you in the organization chart

What are peers?

200

This interferes with the message from being understood.

What is noise?

200

Mental and emotional factors such as anxiety.

What is psychological context?

200

Understanding who you are talking to, your audience, based on their interests.

What is engagement?

300

The process of converting thoughts into conversation and conversation into thoughts 

What is the encoding/decoding process?

300

Societal conventions that guide communication

What is social context?

300

Being genuinely yourself consistently

What is authentic?

400

These are messages in response to other ones.

What is feedback?

400

Type of relationship with a person

What is relational context?

500

This influences our communication. 

What is context?

500

Aspects of your identity such as nationality, ethnicity, class, race, sexual orientation

What is cultural context?

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