Communication Basics
This is the process of sending and receiving messages.
What is communication?
This ancient system used pictures to represent ideas.
What are hieroglyphics?
This term refers to communication between individuals.
What is interpersonal communication?
This is the term for media that reaches large audiences.
What is mass media?
The communication process ends with a
Feedback
These are the two main types of communication.
What are verbal and non-verbal?
The writing system was developed almost 3,000 years ago by the?
Ancient Egyptians.
This is why choosing the right medium for a message is important.
What is to ensure clarity and effectiveness
This Caribbean organization promotes regional media collaboration.
What is CARICOM?
What does a raised palm facing forward typically mean?
Stop or wait
This term refers to the person who initiates the message.
What is the sender?
Today hieroglyphics are used for fun. The symbols now used are called
ideograms or picture writing.
Language affects communication by doing this.
What is shaping meaning and understanding?
These are two examples of media organizations in the Caribbean.
What are CBC and TTT?
Which of the following best describes the sender in the communication process?
Transmits and encodes the message
This is the channel or method used to deliver a message.
What is the medium?
Ideograms are also used to:
These two factors influence how people communicate with each other.
What are social and economic status?
Media operates as a business by doing this.
Media operates as a business by doing this.
Gestures
Signs, sounds, or gestures used to convey a message
These are three non-verbal ways we communicate.
What are facial expressions, gestures, and posture?
Written language is:
A form of code and the act of writing is the encoding information into letters and words.
These cultural elements can affect communication styles.
What are beliefs and customs?
This is one way mass media supports Caribbean integration.
What is sharing regional news and culture?
During a science club meeting, members use words like “PCR,” “photon,” and “specimen” that others outside the club might not understand. What do we call these special words?
Jargon