Something that interferes with a message being communicated is known as ________

Disconfirmation is a communication pattern in which you

A) disagree with a person. B) are unwilling to accept what someone says. C) acknowledge someone's significance. D) ignore someone's presence as well as that person's communications.

When Cecil teases his friend Katrina, she rolls her eyes and says, "Get out of my face!" Cecil laughs, indicating that he is reacting to the _______ information in Katrina's message.

  a.  literal   b.  informational    c.  relational   d.  unidirectional