What, according to your textbook, is the term for anything that impedes the communication of a message?

a. divergence
b. blockage
c. distraction
d. avoidance
e. interference

e. interference

Explanation:

Environmental noise is any physical noise present in a communication encounter. Other people talking in a crowded diner could interfere with your ability to transmit a message and have it successfully decoded. While environmental noise interferes with the transmission of the message,semantic noise refers to noise that occurs in the encoding and decoding process when participants do not understand a symbol. To use a technical example, FM antennae can’t decode AM radio signals and vice versa.

stewards ice box was the purchase of alaska from russia and it was called that because people thought it was not a good idea to purchase alaska

answer: musical connotation

leonard b. meyer (1918-2007) was an american composer, author and philosopher. his work emotion and meaning in music is perhaps the first major treatise on music. it is a philosophical and psychological work, greatly influenced by koffka (one of the major proponents of gestalt psychology). his work deals with the problem of musical meaning and musical communication.