COMM 1101 -TEST #1 NORTHEASTERN -
PROF GRANELLI EXAM QUESTIONS
WITH 100% VERIFIED ANSWERS
\.Why do we study communication? - ANSWERS-Learn more about ourselves
Essential to relationships
Helps us achieve goals
\.Critical thinking - ANSWERS-requires that one become a critic of one's own
thoughts and behavior
involves reflection and weighing evidence, is a key to successful communication
\.What are messages? - ANSWERS-are the building blocks of communication, and
the process of taking ideas and converting them into messages is called encoding.
\.What are shared messages? - ANSWERS-the mutual understanding of a message
between speaker and audience
\.What is the difference between content level and relational level meaning? -
ANSWERS-What words and body language mean
, \.Can you name/define/explain the seven components of the communication
process? - ANSWERS-1. Setting (location, day/time, proximity)
2. Participants (#)
3. Message creation: encoding & decoding
4. Meaning creation: filtered through content & relationship
5. Channel: how we send messages, appropriateness
6. Noise: what stops us from communicating
7. Feedback (laughter, silence, etc.)
\.What are the differences in three communication models from the slides? -
ANSWERS-1st: does not account for shared messages, linear model, there is a
sender and receiver
2nd: transactional, both people are communicators, shared meaning
3rd: accounts for societal forces, relationship and experience, and culture
\.· What individual forces influence communication? - ANSWERS-Individual forces
include your demographic characteristics such as age, race, ethnicity, nationality,
gender/sex, sexual orientation, regional identity and socioeconomic class. Also
includes other factors such as personality and cognitive and physical ability. Also
includes your field of experience which includes education, life events and cultural
background.
\.Can you define communication competence? - ANSWERS-The ability to adapt
one's communication to achieve one's goals
PROF GRANELLI EXAM QUESTIONS
WITH 100% VERIFIED ANSWERS
\.Why do we study communication? - ANSWERS-Learn more about ourselves
Essential to relationships
Helps us achieve goals
\.Critical thinking - ANSWERS-requires that one become a critic of one's own
thoughts and behavior
involves reflection and weighing evidence, is a key to successful communication
\.What are messages? - ANSWERS-are the building blocks of communication, and
the process of taking ideas and converting them into messages is called encoding.
\.What are shared messages? - ANSWERS-the mutual understanding of a message
between speaker and audience
\.What is the difference between content level and relational level meaning? -
ANSWERS-What words and body language mean
, \.Can you name/define/explain the seven components of the communication
process? - ANSWERS-1. Setting (location, day/time, proximity)
2. Participants (#)
3. Message creation: encoding & decoding
4. Meaning creation: filtered through content & relationship
5. Channel: how we send messages, appropriateness
6. Noise: what stops us from communicating
7. Feedback (laughter, silence, etc.)
\.What are the differences in three communication models from the slides? -
ANSWERS-1st: does not account for shared messages, linear model, there is a
sender and receiver
2nd: transactional, both people are communicators, shared meaning
3rd: accounts for societal forces, relationship and experience, and culture
\.· What individual forces influence communication? - ANSWERS-Individual forces
include your demographic characteristics such as age, race, ethnicity, nationality,
gender/sex, sexual orientation, regional identity and socioeconomic class. Also
includes other factors such as personality and cognitive and physical ability. Also
includes your field of experience which includes education, life events and cultural
background.
\.Can you define communication competence? - ANSWERS-The ability to adapt
one's communication to achieve one's goals
