Let's Try These Things Called Notes. Chapter 1- Preliminaries to Human Communication

Chapter 1- Preliminaries to Human Communication

Benefits and Forms
-Presentation Skills
-Relationship Skills
-Leadership Skills
-Critical and Creative Thinking Skills
-Interaction Skills

Forms:
-Intrapersonal: communicating with yourself
-Interpersonal: communicating with a few people
-Interviewing: proceeds by question and answer
-Small Group: 5-10 people
-Organizational: with an organizational group
-Public: speaker with an audience
-Computer: people via computer
-Mass: audio or visuals to a large audience

Elements: communication occurs when one person sends and receives messages that are distorted by noise, occur within a context, have effect, and provide opportunity for feedback.
-Physical 
-Social/Psychological
-Temporal
-Cultural

Messages
-metamessage
-feedback message
-feed forward message

Channels: the medium through which the message passes through

Noise: anything that interferes with your receiving a message
Effects:
-Intellectual
-Affective
-Psychomotor

Purpose:
-to learn
-to relate
-to help
-to influence
-to play

Communication is...
-A package of signals
-A process of adjustment
-Content and relationship dimensions
-Ambiguous
-Punctuated
-Inevitable, Irreversible, Unrepeatable

The Competent Communicator...
-Thinks critically and mindfully
-is culturally sensitive
-is ethical
-is an effective listener