? How Does Communication Effect Our Identity Needs

! Lets first get out of the way that identity is how you present yourself to others and would like to be thought of. Your identity needs could effect the way you present yourself based on certain contexts

? What are the Needs That Communication Meets

! Communication effects our Physical Needs, Instrumental Needs, Relational Needs, and Identity Needs,

? How does communication affect our relational needs

! having a relationship with others is part of the human experience. being able to have friends, family, collogues, lovers, and so on requires communication. without being able to communicate with others there's no way for you to maintain a relationship with others

? How does communication effect out Instrumental needs

! Instrumental needs are the things that we need to get done, they're the things that we set goals for and try to accomplish. by communicating your instrumental needs weather that be interpersonally or intrapersonally you can find more effective means of finishing those goals.

? How does Communication Affect Our Physical Needs

! Communication can play into out physical needs a few different ways, weather that be talking to an old friend about crashing at their place for awhile cause you don't have a home, or talking to people as a social creature to keep your mind from deteriorating, or using affective intrapersonal as a sort of mental self therapy. these are all things that keep our body and minds functioning

? What's the Personal use of Communication

! The extent in which communication occurs in our personal life is everywhere to be seen. think of what your doing right now, reading this. that's part of your personal life. And I am communicating with you at this very moment. think of the most recent conversation you had, that was probably part of your life, no? Communication is what allows us to do Everything

? What's the Professional use of Communication

! Some communication skills vary from career to career. but having a foundation for the communication skills related to your major or field of study is usually wanted. having the ability to listen, write, motivate, persuade, interpersonally think, interview, and solve group problems are all useful communication skills to have for working.

? What's the Academic use of Communication

! Certain things that communication skills are used for academically are: Listening Skills, Group Work, Social Confidence. There's just certain things threaded between the lines of communication as a whole that help you to be more productive academically.

? How is Communication Integrated into All Parts of Our Lives

! Something worth recognizing about communication is its day to day use. from having an in depth discussion about a highly interesting topic with one of your close colleagues, to greeting a stranger in the morning or evening that you don't have any prior connections with. To thinking thoughts inside your head.

Everything is communication.

? What's Integrative Learning

! integrative learning is an approach to learning in which you try to see how what you're learning connects to your life and/or responsibilities

Cultural Context can change how we interact with one another for various reasons. maybe somebody from japan gets asked many questions about whats different in japan vs america. or maybe somebody of color is consciously aware that they're of color while interacting with others and adjusts their interactions because of that awareness.

Relational context is how you treat someone that you know vs somebody you aren't familiar with. it can also change depending on what you know the person for. an example: You'd probably have a different conversation with a stranger than what you'd have with a close friend. or maybe you have a professor that you have different communications with than other individuals cause of the context of the professors profession.

relational context changes from person to person depending on how you know them and as such youll treat them differently.

Social Context in a conversation is something that you may or may not want to do. so if your in a conversation you could say that your cat died but it'd be really weird to describe finding it ran over and its entrails smushed against the pavement.

Alternatively it could be rude not to acknowledge a compliment or greeting from somebody.

Social Context could refer to some other things though. for example the way you dress, if you dress very casual for a professional business setting than that could convey that your lazy or unfit or not motivated, even if you don't realize that, there's still a social context that implies you should dress snazzy for a professional business setting.

? What is the Transmission model Of Communication?

! the transmission model of communication TMC is an earlier model of communication in which communication is described as: Sender -> Message -> Receiver In TmMC the idea of communication is very direct and straight-foward. Its sending a message from one person to another. nothing else.

📝 one example of TmMC is something along the lines of reading a book. the writer is the sender, the text is the message, and the reader is the receiver.

? What is the Transaction Model of Communication?

! The Transaction Model of Communication TaMC is the most recent model of communication and it looks something like: Communicator <--> Communicator

It thinks more along the lines of when your communicating with somebody neither of you is solely the Sender nor the Receiver but instead your both.

📝 One example I like to imagine is when you start a conversation with somebody and the conversation begins to unfold into other conversations. the conversation Isnt about any one thing, and both of you have control over what direction the conversation goes in.

? What is the interaction Model of Communication?

! The interaction Model of Communication IMC is sort of thought of as similar to the TMC but instead of it only going one way, the receiver can now provide feedback. so IMC would look something along the lines of: Sender -> message -> Receiver -> feedback

📝I guess one example of IMT is when someone asks you to do something and you ask them how to do it. they tell you how to do it and you proceed to do it.

Computer-Mediated Communication tends to be a more one way and linear interaction. an interaction similar to the earlier models of communication. CMC can be more along the lines of: Sender -> message -> Receiver

from my understanding Psychological Context refers to your psychological state and how it effects your communication. so maybe your taking an adhd medication and it slows down your thoughts enough for you to communicate effectively. or maybe you found out your grandma died recently and its getting in the way of your communication skills. in both scenarios its something psychological that effects how you communicate.

my understanding is that Physical Context refers to conversations based on the environment. so if your talking to your buddy about lifting weights while you're both at the gym, than that'd be some physical context. The context that your dealing with can change the communication. If your in a hot room with a coat on it may be uncomfortable and affect your communication. that could be another form of Physical Context is the discomfort.

feedback was introduced in the interactive model of communication which looks something like: Sender -> Message -> Receiver -> Feedback.

As an example you could ask your roommate if pizza sounds good tonight and they could say yes or no.

Environmental noise is usually a noise that's out of your control. Earlier today actually, I was talking to someone named Leo, but a lawn mower got in the way of him talking to me. this lawn mower presented itself as a distraction and it got in the way of me decoding Leo's message to me. And it got in the way of Leo encoding his message for me.

Semantic noise is like a language barrier. You could be talking to somebody about some kinda function in Trigonometry but the words that they're saying wont mean anything to you if you don't have an understanding of all the words they're using.

Noise is what gets in the way of things.

I know that personally, somebody could be talking to me about something and they could be doing a very good job at talking to me about that specific something. But than something completely unrelated will pop up in my head and my IAC (Intrapersonal Communication) will start to get in the way of the person trying to tell me about their something.

The thing that I'm thinking about in my head acts as noise and it gets in the way of me properly decoding what the message is.

Decoding is part of being on the receiving end of information.

you know when somebody talks to you about something they did today and you imagine being in that scenario in your head? maybe thats just me... but thats Decoding.

Decoding is taking what somebody or something says and turning it into a thought process that works for specifically your brain. its how we learn new things. without being able to decode information we wouldn't be able to understand what we're reading/hearing.

Being able to decode something well probably requires a basic concept of the subject at hand. so for example you wouldn't be able to decode trigonometry or calculous unless you've done the prerequisites for them like algebra and geometry

Encoding is turning your thoughts into words.

Remember that time you wanted to talk about something but you got stuck on a word? its like you can visualize it in your brain but you cant verbalize it out of your mouth? thats related to encoding.

Encoding is taking your abstract thoughts that only really you can understand and turning them into words that are comprehendible and and process-able for another person.

Sometimes its hard to get out the words and it can even be frustrating because you understand how something works when you think about it in your head but when you try to talk about it it sounds like a jumbled mess of brain spaghetti.

being able to Encode well will allow you to avoid this problem

Interpersonal Communication or IRC as I like to remember it by, is the communication between oneself and another individual.

it could range anywhere from saying good morning to a random passerby on your walk to work, to talking to a friend about going to the cafe on Friday, to asking out your friend/crush of several years on a date.

Something interesting about IRC is that its much more subject to being misunderstood. when your talking to somebody about something and you don't get a point across or misstructure your communication there can be a misunderstanding which can lead to unintended things like confusion, anger, shock, etc. so being good at IRC is pretty important because you don't want any miscommunications

Intrapersonal communication or IAC as I like to remember it as is the communication that happens within oneself. its your internal dialogue.

You may think about how later today you need to wash your clothes when you get home or you could be thinking about how you could've made a better argument with someone

I find it interesting that usually the thoughts you have are a result of internal or external stimuli. so you could be thinking about washing your clothes because your shirt stinks a little bit, or you could be thinking about how to make a better argument because you just got out of a heated debate.