Elements of Communication
Interference that serves as a barrier to communication.
What is noise?
This dimension involves the real environment where communication occurs.
What is the physical dimension?
This is a pictorial representation of the three parts of ethics.
What is the ethics pyramid?
This is fear associated with communication.
What is communication apprehension?
This is the process used to try to understand your audience's needs, beliefs, values, and likely opinions.
What is audience analysis?
The medium through which a speaker sends a message.
What is a channel?
This dimension refers to status relationships among participants.
What is the social-psychological dimension?
Failing to cite a source is an example of this.
What is plagiarism?
This kind of apprehension is created by the combination of audience, time, and context.
What is situational anxiety?
This term refers to specialized jargon or slang that is only understood by a limited audience.
What is argot?
The recipient(s) of a speaker's message.
This dimension of communication has to do with when the communication occurs.
What is the temporal dimension?
This occurs when someone twists information in a way that alters its original meaning.
What is distortion?
This kind of apprehension is prompted by specific audience characteristics (e.g. status, audience size, familiarity).
What is audience anxiety?
This phrase refers to an audience member's unique set of perspectives, experience, knowledge, and values.
What is a frame of reference?
The person who creates a message.
What is a source?
This dimension deals with societal beliefs, norms, and practices.
What is the cultural dimension?
All speakers should accept this for the consequences of their speech.
What is responsibility?
This kind of anxiety can be prompted by things like formality, uncertainty, and novelty.
What is context anxiety?
In audience analysis, this is a small group of people who give you feedback about their perceptions.
What is a focus group?
The physical process of creating and delivering a message.
What is encoding?
Good public speakers try to engage their audience from this perspective.
What is the audience's own perspective/vantage point?
This organization created an 8-part credo for ethical communication.
What is the National Communication Association (NCA)?
Imagining yourself giving a great speech is an example of this stress management technique.
What is positive visualization?
Aristotle used this term to refer to a speaker's credibility.
What is ethos?