Define the seven elements of the interpersonal communication model
What will be an ideal response?
1. Source: the person who encodes the message, in verbal or nonverbal form.
2. Receiver: the person listening to the message and decoding it.
3. Messages: what we communicate with others, either verbally (language) or nonverbally (non-language based messages).
4. Channel: the pathway that messages travel, which usually include our senses (visual/sight, auditory/hearing, tactile/touch, and olfactory/smell).
5. Noise: anything that distorts or interferes with the communication process, whether physical (external sounds) or psychological (internal distractions).
6. Feedback: verbal and nonverbal responses to another person's messages.
7. Context: the physical (place), historical (time), and psychological (mood) communication environment.
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