PURPOSIVE COMMUNICATION QUIZ 2

MODELS OF COMMUNICATION, ISSUES IN COMMUNICATION, PRINCIPLES OF

INSTRUCTIONS: Read and answer the following items carefully. Shade the letter of the
correct answer in your ZipGrade answer sheet.
1. What does CONTENT refer to in a 5. In the linear model of communication,
communication situation? what is the primary focus?
a. The process of delivering a message a. The feedback loop
b. The information and experiences provided b. Encoding and decoding
to the receiver c. One-way message transmission
c. The location where communication d. Physical and psychological context
happens
6. What do communication models help to
d. The non-verbal cues used in a message
provide in the study of communication?
2. Which principle of communication
a. Real-life communication examples
emphasizes that information should be
b. A visual representation of communication
complete?
aspects
a. Principle of Clarity c. Mathematical formulas for
b. Principle of Attention communication
c. Principle of Adequacy d. Historical contexts of communication
d. Principle of Timeliness theories
3. What is the role of CONTEXT in 7. How is the interactive model of
communication? communication different from the
transaction model?
a. How the message is presented
b. Providing non-verbal cues a. It includes encoding and decoding
c. The situation or environment in which the b. It is a one-way communication process
message is delivered c. It incorporates feedback and two-way
d. The way feedback is gathered communication
d. It focuses on social, relational, and
4. According to the CREDO FOR
cultural contexts
ETHICAL COMMUNICATION, what
should be advocated to achieve informed 8. What does the transaction model of
decision making? communication suggest about
participants?
a. Tolerance of dissent
b. Distortion and coercion a. They are only senders of messages
c. Intolerance and hatred b. They alternate between sender and
d. Violence and coercion receiver roles
c. They focus on physical and psychological

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context a. Transaction model
d. They do not interact with each other b. Linear model
c. Interactive model
9. Which aspect does the social context in
d. Feedback model
a communication encounter refer to?
14. Which principle of communication
a. The physical environment
emphasizes drawing the receiver's
b. Previous interpersonal history
attention to the message?
c. Various aspects of identities
d. Stated rules or unstated norms a. Principle of Clarity
b. Principle of Attention
10. What role do communicators play in
c. Principle of Feedback
the transaction model of communication?
d. Principle of Informality
a. They are only receivers of messages
15. What is the primary focus of the
b. They alternate between sender-receiver
linear model of communication?
roles
c. They are observers of the communication a. Message transmission and reception
process b. Feedback and context
d. They focus only on message transmission c. Mathematical formulas
d. One-way sender-receiver process
11. How is the linear model of
communication different from the 16. According to the communication
interactive model? principles, why should information be
complete?
a. Linear model includes a feedback loop
b. Interactive model includes encoding and a. To shape our realities
decoding b. To avoid conflict in organizations
c. Linear model focuses on a one-way c. To take proper decisions and make action
process plans
d. Interactive model is concerned with d. To create communities within and across
physical and psychological contexts contexts
12. What should communication ethics 17. Which model of communication
promote, according to the NCA? includes the concept of encoding and
decoding in the message process?
a. Dehumanization and coercion
b. Degrading individuals and humanity a. Interaction model
c. Information sharing and respect for b. Transaction model
privacy c. Feedback model
d. Expressing personal convictions for d. Linear model
unfairness
18. What should ethical communication
13. In which model of communication do condemn, according to the CREDO FOR
participants co-create meaning within ETHICAL COMMUNICATION?
broader contexts?
a. Information sharing and opinion
expressing

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b. Respect for privacy and confidentiality itself
c. Degrading individuals and use of violence d. It is concerned with physical and
d. Committing to the expression of personal psychological context
convictions
20. Which aspect does the relational
19. How is the interactive model of context in a communication encounter
communication different from the linear refer to?
model?
a. The physical environment
a. It includes participants as observers b. Roles of senders and receivers
b. It is a more one-way process c. Previous interpersonal history
c. It focuses on the communication process d. Various aspects of identities

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Answer Key
1. b. The information and experiences provided to the receiver
2. c. Principle of Adequacy
3. c. The situation or environment in which the message is delivered
4. a. Tolerance of dissent
5. c. One-way message transmission
6. b. A visual representation of communication aspects
7. c. It incorporates feedback and two-way communication
8. b. They alternate between sender and receiver roles
9. d. Stated rules or unstated norms
10. b. They alternate between sender-receiver roles
11. c. Linear model focuses on a one-way process
12. c. Information sharing and respect for privacy
13. a. Transaction model
14. b. Principle of Attention
15. d. One-way sender-receiver process
16. c. To take proper decisions and make action plans
17. a. Interaction model
18. c. Degrading individuals and use of violence
19. c. It focuses on the communication process itself
20. c. Previous interpersonal history

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