Study Guide Applied Social Sciences
Basic Elements of Communication
Process
Objectives:
• Identify the elements of the communication process.
• Understand how these elements are applied in the communication
process.
• Evaluate one’s own communication skills using the communication
process.
Basic Elements of Communication Process
Communication
• two-way process
• system of transferring information or ideas
• basic elements include sender of source, message encoding,
communication channel, decoding, receiver, feedback, and noise
Sender
• originator – where the information comes from
Message
• verbal or nonverbal
• the idea or information the receiver must know
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Basic Elements of Communication
Process
Objectives:
• Identify the elements of the communication process.
• Understand how these elements are applied in the communication
process.
• Evaluate one’s own communication skills using the communication
process.
Basic Elements of Communication Process
Communication
• two-way process
• system of transferring information or ideas
• basic elements include sender of source, message encoding,
communication channel, decoding, receiver, feedback, and noise
Sender
• originator – where the information comes from
Message
• verbal or nonverbal
• the idea or information the receiver must know
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