Question

This is for my Physical Education Class. We are focusing on communication. For extra credit I have to get an opinion other than my own. The question is below :)

Answer 1

Communication is the act of sending and receiving messages. Sometimes messages are communicated verbally, with words, or nonverbaly, with body language. When communication is effective, the intended message is received. When communication is ineffective, messages are unclear. Describe a time when you had difficulty communicating a message. Why was the intended message not received properly?

Answer 2

@kkay_light

Answer 3

hmm I have to describe a time I had difficulty communicating?

Answer 4

Yeah

Answer 5

A person’s interpersonal life is dependent on that person’s facility for making his or her
thoughts, feelings, and needs known to others and on that person’s receptiveness to the
attempts of others to share similar data with him or her. Communication, a multifaceted
phenomenon, is the result of efforts by individuals toward this end. Communication can
be considered in simplistic terms as the sending and receiving of messages, as both
elements must be present for communication to take place. However, the fundamental
transaction of message sent and received does not presuppose that communication has
occurred. Often, it has only partially occurred or has been aborted entirely as a result of
the circumstances surrounding the occasion when the communication attempt was made.
These circumstances may be environmental, emotional, verbal-skill oriented,
phenomenological, or resulting from a host of conditions present within the individuals
who are attempting to relate.
An analogy may help to clarify the concept of the effect of circumstances on the
effectiveness of sending and receiving messages. In the late afternoon when you observe
a sunset, the sun often appears to be a deep red, larger and less intense than it seems at
midday. This is due to the phenomenon of refraction, the bending of the light rays as
they pass through the earth’s atmosphere, and the higher density of dust in the air
through which the light passes as the sun goes down. The sun has already moved below
the horizon, but it is still in sight because its emissions are distorted by the conditions of
the medium through which they must travel. In a similar way the messages that we send
to one another are often refracted by intrapersonal, interpersonal, and environmental
conditions that contribute to the atmosphere in which we are relating. I may distort my
message to you by giving out mixed messages verbally and symbolically, and you may
distort what you hear because of your own needs and experiences. The two of us may be
located in an environment, physical and psychological, that contributes to the difficulty
in clearly sharing what we intend. In an atmosphere of suspicion, for example, we may
both become unduly cautious in our communication.
Although it is unlikely that totally nonrefracted communication is a possibility over
time between any two people or with significant others with whom we must deal
interpersonally, an awareness of conditions that block and alter the intention of sent and
received messages may produce less refraction and better communication in the long
run.

Answer 6

Well there was a time when my friend and I were texting about what we were gonna do for my sister's birthday. I thought we were taking her to a restaurant but he thought we were taking her to a fair. Does this count lol

Answer 7

Yeah that counts :) Thank you

Answer 8

no problem :)