UNIT 3_THE PROCESS OF COMMUNICATION

• components of communication

  • sender
  • encoding
  • message
  • channel
  • noise
  • decoding
  • receiver
  • feedback
• sender - is the party that sends a message and initiates a conversation.
• encoding - is the transformation of thoughts of the information to be conveyed into a form that can be sent, such as words.
• message - is the information that the sender is relaying to the receiver.
• channel - is the manner in which the message is sent, it can be in verbal or non-verbal form.
• noise - is anything that interferes with the interpretation of a message.
• decoding - means mentally processing the message into understanding.
• receiver - is the party that receives the message from the sender, or the person who

  decodes the message.
• feedback - is a message sent by the receiver back to the sender.
• 4 TYPES OF NOISE

  • physical noise
  • semantic noise
  • physiological noise
  • psychological noise
• Physical noise - environmental sounds : others talking in the background, raining sounds, thunderstorms, barking dog.
• Semantic noise - interferes with the interpretation of the message due to ambiguity in words : jargon, mispronunciation, grammatical.
• Physiological noise - it manifests from the inside of either the receiver or sender of the message and is caused by a physiological process : headaches, feeling ill, hunger, room is too cold or too hot.
• Psychological noise - occurs when emotions interfere with the receiver's interpretation of a message.