Test One Learning Objectives and Study Guide
(BRING # 2 PENCILS SHARPENED)

There will be three questions on the course syallbus

CH.1 THE COMMUNICATION PROCESS: AN OVERVIEW

1.   Define human communication and identify and explain its main features; 
process, symbols, nonverbal signs, contextual cues, and meaning.

2.   Describe the linear model of communication.

3.   Identify and define the attributes of each of the five stages of the 
linear communication process; schema, role-taking, conventions, nonverbal, 
perception, source and encoding ,and receiver and decoding. 
(also review lecture: COMMUNICATION AS TRANSACTION)

4.   Explain how meaning works in the communication process.

5.   Explain the relationship of traces and schemata to perception and meaning. 

6.  Identify and explain each of the six basic propositions of the simultaneous
transaction model and how it differs from the linear model of communication

7.  Distinguish between accurate and distorted communication. 

8.  Identify the factors that contribute to distortion and explain how
distortion happens.

9.  Distinguish between surface and deep meaning.

LECTURE: MODELS OF THE PROCESS OF COMMUNICATION
(optional article on reserve covering lecture: Descriptive Models of Communication)

1.  Explain the role of fields of experience in the communication process.

2.  What are the main issues associated  with the source/receiver, message, and channel. 

3.  What is "noise" in the channel and the three types of noise?


ARTICLE:  COMMUNICATION: INHERENTLY STRATEGIC AND PRIMARILY
AUTOMATIC

1. Explain why communication is strategic and yet primarily automatic?

2. How do "constraints" influence the strategic nature of comunication.