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The Components of the Interpersonal Communication Process - Coggle Diagram
The Components of the Interpersonal Communication Process
ICP - at least 2 participants
Communication participants
sender + receiver
Sender
initiates communication
encodes thoughts + feelings into verbal + nonverbal signs to form a message
clothes, jewelry, hairstyle, tattoos
Facial expressions
Signs represent specific ideas + generally understood by a particular group of people
pictures; words - CAT - represents animal
signs that belong together for a code system
each language = code system
alphabet - organized set of letters
hardly aware of encoding process - "I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse"
The Message
sender conveys encoded meaning as a message to receiver
Verbal
Spoken / Written words
Nonverbal
Containing no words
gestures, touch
send more then 1 message at once - wave + say "hello" at same time
The Channel
link between sender and receiver
route message travels
IPC - people communicate through 5 sensory channels
sight
hearing
touch
smell
taste
The Medium
related to channel
physical means by which the message travels from 1 person to the other
verbal communication
written / spoken words
nonverbal communication
gestures / eye contact / touch
The Noise