Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. The pathway by which a message travels is called the medium.
2. Eli shut his eyes and dropped his head into his hands when his boss announced the holiday schedule. This is an example of feedback.
3. Noise is defined as any physical sound that interferes with accurate communication between two people.
4. The sun was right in Sienna's eyes, so she looked away and missed the coach's demonstration of a defensive technique. In this case, the sun acts as noise in the communication process.
1. TRUE
The medium is the pathway by which a message travels.
2. TRUE
Feedback occurs when the receiver (Eli) expresses his reaction to the sender's (his boss's) message.
3. FALSE
Noise is any disturbance that interferes with the transmission of a message. It can occur in any medium, as when you have static in a radio transmission, fadeout on a cell phone, loud music when you're trying to talk in a noisy restaurant, or even in the encoding or decoding, as when a pharmacist can't read a prescription because of a doctor's poor handwriting.
4. TRUE
Noise is any disturbance that interferes with the transmission of a message such as the sun interfering in one's ability to watch a demonstration.
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