| A | B |
| attitudes | the way you think or feel about an object, person, event, etc. |
| beliefs | firm convictions about something |
| channel | a means of sending or receiving messages |
| codes | sylbolic ways of representing ideas or feelings |
| decoding | the mental process of converting sound into meaning |
| encoding | the process by which an idea or message is trnasformed into oral language |
| feedback | the verbal or nonverbal response the receiver gives back to the sender |
| message | made up or words carried by sound waves and gestures or movement carried by light waves |
| paralanguage | clues to meaning revealed by the tone of voice, volume, rate of speaking, pauses, etc. |
| perception | the process of making sense of teh world through the use of your senses |
| receiver | the person who hears or sees the message being sent |
| sender | the source of a verbal or nonverbal message |
| speech | putting words into sound waves |
| values | ideals or views held dear |