Definitions
This is the path the message travels
What is the CHANNEL?
When a message is sent, received, and understood.
What is Communication?
A microphone
What is an encoder?
The channel
What is the path the message travels?
Pictures, signs and symbols are all examples of this type of communication.
What is Visual Communication?
Who or what receives and understands the message.
Who or What is the DESTINATION?
The person or thing that produces the information or message to be sent.
Who or what is the source?
Your computer monitor when you read an email.
What is a decoder?
The encoder
What component converts the information to a form that can be easily sent?
This communication device is an example of a half-duplex system.
What is a walkie-talkie?
This component converts the information into a form that can be sent easily.
What is the ENCODER?
This component converts the message back to a form that the destination can understand
What is the DECODER?
telephone wires
What is a channel?
Different parts of a group working together in a sequence to accomplish a goal.
What is a System?
These tall structures are needed to move cell phone messages from one place to another.
What is a cell phone tower?
What part of the system sends the message to the channel?
What is the Transmitter?
Audio communication relies on this body part to receive messages.
What is the ear?
Your keypad when you type in a message?
What is an encoder?
The Source
Who or what produces the information to be sent.
People who are blind can use this type of communication to read.
What is Braille?
This part takes in information and sends it to the decoder
What is the RECEIVER?
When information is sent or is accessible to many people at once.
What is mass communication?
a stereo speaker
What is a decoder
The transmitter
What component takes the encoded message and sends it to the channel?
this type of communication system uses light pulses instead of electrical signals to move messages from one place to another
What is fiber optic cable?