Unit 1 Diagram

Unit 1 Diagram

1. What is communication?

   • Activity or process of expressing ideas and feelings or of giving people information.One can safely say that communication is the act of transferring information and messagesfrom one place to another and from one person to another (Oxford, 2004)

2. Intrapersonal communication

   • Is communication with ourselves and it occurs when a human being thinks to himself (Ehondor, 2017)

3. Interpersonal communication

   • When we communicate with other people

4. Perception process

   • Selection
     • The mental process of choosing which data in a field of perceptual data we will attend to
   • Organization
     • We use organizational structures to make sense of (categorize) what we selected to notice
       • We organize base on 4 types of schema: Physical constructs; Psychological; Interaction;
   • Interpretation
     • Obtain a particular understanding based on how you organized the data you selected
       • We interpreate based on: degree of involvement; relational satisfaction; personal experience; assumptions about human behavior; expectations; knowledge of others

5. Influences

   • Stimuli
     • Factors are intense and often attract our attention
   • Contrast or Change
     • We take wonderful people for granted
   • Internal Factor
     • Shape how we make sense of others. Our motives often determine how we perceive people
   • Emotional State
     • Our attitude/ expectation we bring to a situation shapes our level of happiness/ unhappiness "Mood"

6. Language Rules

   • Phonological
     • Govern how words sound when pronounced
   • Syntactic
     • Govern the structure of language- the way symbols can be arranged
   • Semantic
     • Meaning of specific words
   • Pragmatic
     • How people use language in everyday interaction

7. What is Language?

   • It is a collection of symbols governed by rules and used to convey messages between individuals.

8. Non-verbal Communication

   • Has communicative value: You may not be able to tell exactly what is going on but the nonverbal cues certainly have communicative value
   • Is primarily relational: It is important to create an image of ourselves as we want the others to view us
   • Is ambiguos: Each person has different interpretation
   • Functions
     • Repeating: People remember comments accompanied by gestures
     • Substituting: Use emblems to describe deliberate nonverbal behaviors that have precise meanings
     • Complementing: They are used to reinforce verbal communication
   • Types
     • Personal Appearance
     • Kinesics
     • Physical Environment
     • Chronemics
     • Voice (paralanguage)
     • Haptics
     • Proxemics

9. Job Interview

   • Is a meeting between two people. The interviewer will certainly be looking to find out whether you have the potential to do the job effectively and make a useful contribution to the department and the organization (Aberystwyth University, 2014).
     • Questions about you; last job; about qualifications; job performance; salary; work history; why you should be hired; management and teamwork; about the future

10. Aberystwyth University. (2014). All about Interviews. Ehondor, B. (2017). Intrapersonal Communication as a Foundation for Personal Branding—Beryl Ehondor. Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English. 2004. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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