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The Communication Model Of Interpersonal Communication

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Passing another student on the way to class and gesturing with a friendly wave, interacting with a server in a local restaurant, or discussing ideas and pop culture with a roommate all seem like entirely unrelated, daily interactions that happen in a typical college student’s day. However, each daily interaction, whether in the life of a college student or other person, follows a specific pattern of order that helps people to perceive and interact with the environment and other individual around them. This process, known as the communication model, is an important facet of human interaction that helps to explain the processes involved in communicating with people and that helps to reveal important details about effective interpersonal communication.
The communication model consists of eight different parts, which as they apply to every interpersonal reaction, are often referred to as universals. Perhaps, the first and most important universal of communication is the message, or the idea one tries to communicate to another in a conversation or interaction. As every interaction hinges around a central message, all the other elements of the communication model revolve around the sending and/or receiving of the message itself. Therefore, the individual who sends a message to another is known as the sender, while the individual who receives the message is referred to as the receiver. For example, when alarm clock pierces the early morning silence, it becomes the sender, communicating a message to the person who hears its shrill tones, the receiver, that he or she should wake up.
However, the communication process does not end with the reception of the message. Oftentimes, the receiver responds to the sender of the message, which is called feedback, and prompts the continuation of the communication process. Continuing with the previous example, after a sleeping person hears an alarm clock, he or she responds to its message most often by letting out an audible gasp of dread or by forcefully pressing the snooze button, which prompts the alarm to issue a second message, either of momentary silence or of continued noise. In this way, both the sender and receiver transmit messages to one another, playing both roles in

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