{"id":2545,"date":"2021-06-20T20:59:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-20T20:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/improvkings.com\/?p=2545"},"modified":"2021-06-20T21:02:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T21:02:14","slug":"2-communication-visualization-of-the-communication-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.improvkings.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/20\/2-communication-visualization-of-the-communication-model\/","title":{"rendered":"2. Communication – Visualization of the Communication Model"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 7<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>\n

CHANNELS<\/b>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The channels that we use are the ways through which we transmit messages to each other. They serve as a container or\nmethod of delivery for messages. Channels can be categorized by things such as 1) which of our human carries or receives\nthe message 2) whether the message is delivered orally, using verbal means, nonverbal means, or a combination of both, and\n3) the main method we use to communicate the message, such as, face to face social interaction, computer assisted\ncommunication, text messaging or a medium that can reach the greater masses such as television. From this we extrapolate\nthe fact that we are multi-channel communicators. Let’s get an idea of how this all functions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We receive sound messages, such as noises coming from the street outside our homes, messages of sight or the interpretation\nof another human being’s physical appearance, messages of taste, or the flavour of different types of food and drink,\nmessages of smell, such as the type of perfume or cologne a friend or relative might be wearing, and messages of touch,\nsuch as how soft, smooth, rough, prickly and so forth the texture of the material of an article of clothing might be when\nwe rub it between our fingers. Think about what channel you are most accustomed to using in your day to day life, and what \nyou find to be the most comfortable. Why do you think you are most accustomed to this channel type? How much would you\nsay you rely on other channels for communication while using one or avoiding to use others? Communicators that are efficient\nwill recognize the fact that communication in itself is a multi-channel process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The corresponding dialogue between a husband and a wife provides a visualization of the multi-channel reality of\ncommunication:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wife: What the hell is wrong with you? You’re late getting ready again. We’ll never get to the Smithes’ house on time.\nHusband: I’m sorry dear, I tried getting ready as fast as I could.\nWife: (In a sarcastic tone) Yeah right, you call that “fast”? You’re always trying to do this and that as fast as you\ncan, aren’t you? (Shakes her fist at him) I’ve had it with you and tolerating your stupidity.\nHusband: (Raising his voice) Oh, you’re tolerating my stupidity? What kind of motivation is a guy supposed to have when\nhe has a nagging hag constantly eating at his soul with her shrieks?\nWife: Oh, Mr. Perfect, you think you’re the only one who has to get ready? All you have to do is put on a pair of pants\nand a shirt, I gotta put on makeup, jewelry, and you think you have it worse?!\nHusband: (Lowering his voice) Alright, alright, I get you. You have to shave your legs, pluck your unibrow, all that stuff,\nto look pretty. I don’t have any doubt of what you have to put up with in today’s society to meet standards of beauty,\nand the pressure is high on you. I’ll have you know, I only took so long in the bathroom because I found a lump on my\nleft testicle! (Puts his hand on the back of her head, petting her) Let’s not blow this out of proportion. Just relax,\nI’ll tell you all about it on the way to Randy and Wilma’s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What message is the wife, whom we can refer to as the first source-encoder, sending to her husband, whom takes the role of\nthe receiver-decoder in the communication process? She is using her tone of voice as well as volume, her choice of words,\nand her physical gestures to notify him of her anger and disappointment in him. Her husband responds in a similar fashion,\nusing a combination of words, vocal cues and nonverbal expressions as a way to implement an explanation for his behavior.\nThey both suffer the same conscequences due to the nature of the situation, in which they are late for a dinner with another\nfamily, by their attitudes, in which they express their frustrations to each other, and by their previous experiences,\nin order to showcase a pattern and illuminate problematic behavior that leads to them being late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOISE<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When it comes to it’s contextual application to the process of communication, noise is indicative of anything that disrupts\nour ability to send or receive messages. We though we tend to colloquially think of noise as certain sounds or sets of\nsounds, noise can be caused both by internal as well as external factors. Internal noise has to do with a communicator’s\npsychological composition, intellectual ability or state of physical well being. External noise has to do with the\nenvironment around us. Therefore, noise can include sounds such as sirens, an offensive smell, and a room that’s too\nhot and muggy, but also personal factors such as prejudices, daydreaming and feelings of self-doubt, and semantic\nmisinterpretation and pondering about what another person might’ve meant when he or she said something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CONTEXT<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Communication persistently occurs in a context, or situation. Often times the nature of a context is so commonplace that\nwe fail to realize it. In yet other times, the context is so influential that it controls almost every aspect of our\nbehavior. Think about where you may find yourself as you’re reading this, and compare how you would act towards others\nin that environment as opposed to being in other environments, with other people, under a different set of circumstances.\nThink about in which environments you would be enticed to adjust your manner of speaking, your attire, your posture\nof means for social interaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FEEDBACK<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whenever we become entangled in an instance of communication with another person, we send as well as receive information\nback and forth between each other. The verbal and nonverbal indicators that we pick up and send back a reactionary\nresponse with some of our own are known as feedback. Feedback gives us a detailed picture of how we are being received\nby the person with whom we are interacting. Whether it be a smile, a frown, a chuckle, a sarcastic remark, a mumbled\nthought or defeaning, mentally ill silence, in response to something that we’ve said or done, can lead us to either\ncontinue, alter or terminate a communicative transaction. Feedback in which we are encouraged to continue the transaction\nis referred to as positive feedback; this tends to lead the communicator into amplifying the behavior they think is causing\nthe positive feedback. On the opposite side, negative feedback is meant to terminate a behavior; it is meant to act in a\nway that is corrective as opposed to reinforcing of a behavior the communicator is exhibiting. Negative feedback can\ntherefore serve to get rid of unwanted, ineffective behaviors. It’s also crucial to note that the words “positive” and\n“negative” do not directly imply “good” or “bad”; these words are just a way of describing how reactions can affect\nbehavior. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both positive as well as negative feedback can be derived from internal as well as external sources. Internal feedback\nis feedback that you give to yourself as you observe your own behavior, usually in the form of self talk or thoughts\ndirected at oneself. You also assess your performance during a transactional social experience. External feedback tends\nto eminate from other sources, such as other human beings who are participating in the communication instance. In order\nto successfully communicate, you must be perceptive to both varieties of feedback. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

EFFECT<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When people communicate, they tend to be changed in various ways as a result of each interaction. Communication has an\neffect on people and can be perceived as a swapping of influences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

An effect can be emotional, cognitive, physical or any combination thereof. Communication can bring out emotions of\nhappiness, rage or sadness, it can lead you to a physical or verbal altercation, to numb out and become apathetic\nto whatever is going on, or to proactively avoid dealing with a difficult situation, or it can lead to new epiphanies and\nrealizations, an increase in knowledge and experience, the formation or re-examination of opinions, beliefs and attitudes,\nor silence or confusion. The fact that effects are not always apparent or observable, there is more to communication than\nmeets the eye or the ear. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

COMMUNICATION MODELS<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since we’ve briefly assessed some fundamental components of communication, we can move onto attempting to apply our\ncomprehension of the communication process into a model, picture or some other form of visualization. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using communication, we are able to send and receive messages from other people, and those messages carry with them\nmeaning that is up to us to interpret in various ways, both consciously and subconsciously. These messages are also\nsometimes transmitted intentionally, while at other times they are transmitted unintentionally. Communication can therefore\nbe seen as incorporating several components into the process as two or more people wittingly or unwittingly exert influence\nover eachother. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By this point, it would be safe to say that communication occurs also when one person attributes significance or meaning\nto the actions and behavior of another human being. The question that might occur to you is whether knowledge of this\nfact will enable you to cultivate superior relationships with your family, spouse, employer and friends? The answer\nto this question is indubitably positive! If you attain higher levels of comprehension about these processes, that allow\npeople to establish contact with and influence one another, if you are able to understand what factors are crucial either\nfor the positive or negative influence over a communication event, what it is that can make it turn into a jolly or sour\nexperience, then you will possess enough knowledge where you can adapt these principles to a communication event in such\na way that alters the experience either for the better or for the worse. Models of communication like the one in Figure 1.1\nand figure 1.2 do a good job of helping you visualize the communication process. These models have excellent utility\nfor achieving the intended purpose. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The model illustrated in Figure 1.1 is meant to be a transactional model of communication. Communication here is depicted as continous circles with a dual, simultaneous interchange of both sending and receiving of messages between both communicators. Each person is both sending and receiving information, which includes feedback, through either a single or multiple channels of transmission, which suggests the exchange will build up on top of the other as more information is transmitted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reading Time: <\/span> 7<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span> CHANNELS The channels that we use are the ways through which we transmit messages to each other. They serve as a container or method of delivery for messages. Channels can be categorized by things such as 1) which of our human carries or receives the message 2) whether the message is delivered orally, using verbal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication-basics","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.improvkings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.improvkings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.improvkings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.improvkings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.improvkings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.improvkings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2549,"href":"https:\/\/www.improvkings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions\/2549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.improvkings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.improvkings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.improvkings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}