Models of Communication Concepts

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What is the primary purpose of communication models?

To provide a systematic way of transmitting electrical signals

To convey the underlying determinants of communicative behavior

To create idealized and abstract representations of objects or events (correct)

To freeze dynamic processes into static pictures

According to Mortensen, what is the key to the usefulness of a model?

The elimination of certain details to focus on essential factors

The degree to which it conforms to underlying determinants of communicative behavior (correct)

The arbitrary nature of the model

The ability to convey dynamic processes accurately

What did Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver model for Bell Laboratories?

Dynamic interactive processes

Idealized and abstract forms

Transmission of electrical signals (correct)

Underlying determinants of communicative behavior

What did the first major model for communication, designed by Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver, aim to guide?

Efforts of engineers in finding efficient ways of transmitting electrical signals Signup and view all the answers

What did Mortensen describe as the act of abstracting in the context of communication models?

Eliminating certain details to focus on essential factors Signup and view all the answers

How did the text describe communication models?

'Merely pictures' that freeze dynamic processes into static pictures Signup and view all the answers

Which concept was introduced by Shannon in the receiver to correct differences between transmitted and received signals?

Feedback Signup and view all the answers

What were the three primary parts of the initial model designed by Shannon and Weaver to mirror the functioning of radio and telephone technologies?

Sender, channel, receiver Signup and view all the answers

What did Shannon and Weaver recognize as static that interferes with listening to a telephone conversation?

Noise Signup and view all the answers

In the transmission model or standard view of communication, what is sent from a sender/encoder to a receiver/decoder?

Information or content Signup and view all the answers

According to Shannon and Weaver, what are the three levels of problems for communication within their theory?

Technical problem, semantic problem, effectiveness problem Signup and view all the answers

What has the Shannon–Weaver model of communication been called due to its simple literal transmission of information?

The 'mother of all models' Signup and view all the answers

Which term was widely adopted into social science fields such as education, organizational analysis, and psychology?

'A Mathematical Theory of Communication' Signup and view all the answers

What did the model developed by Shannon and Weaver aim to improve initially?

Technical communication Signup and view all the answers

What did Fiske refer to as 'widely accepted as one of the main seeds out of which Communication Studies has grown'?

'A Mathematical Theory of Communication' Signup and view all the answers

Who structured this communication model based on elements like an information source, a transmitter, a channel, a receiver, and a destination?

Mathematicians Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver Signup and view all the answers

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