Review these questions and keep them at hand as you complete this lesson's readings. These questions will help you internalize the reading materials and apply the concepts.

1.) Please review your author's definition of human communication (p. 6-8). Is it accurate? Useful? Comprehensive?

2.) How does your experience with communication compare or contrast to the scientific approach your text's authors describe?

3.) As we learn more and more about human brain processing, our understanding about communication processes also increases. How is this reflected in this Lesson's reading?

4.) In your view, is human communication a "linear" process, as described in your text beginning on page 10?

5.) Consider your own communication experiences. Assuming the linear model described beginning on page 10 is accurate, which step in the process is most important? Least?

6.) Your text contends that it is important to give a meaning to meaning. What is your definition of "meaning"? In other words, what does means mean to you?

7.) What is the difference between "denotations" and "connotations" in communication? Which is usually more powerful?

8.) How do symbols create powerful communication for us? Internally? Interpersonally?

9.) Is it true that everyone has a unique communication "schema"? Or do some people share their schema with others?

10.) Your text discusses communication "distortion." Based on what you know about communication so far--from reading and from your experience--is communication ever "distorted"?