Reading Concept - Week 3

The concept of the psychological model of communication in chapter 2 gave me an abundant amount of interest for this weeks reading.  I found the psychological model to be not only familiar, but to spark my interest on how communicating is effective and defective.  When a sender encodes a message, the message travels, and thus the receiver decodes it (straightly from the reading model pg.25).  The noise of a message is the distraction that interrupts the meaning, or overall alters what the message entails.  When the chapter gave us an example of a professor wearing extremely distracting clothes, a windy loud room, and a bad microphone, while trying to present his speech, half the class got the irony, while the other half was still confused.  I believe when a speaker, or any person for that matter, presents his or her self, noise is constantly occurring between the individuals intentionally or not.  I believe some businesses, for this matter, have strict dress codes not only due to professionalism, but also because of the fact the business would like to present themselves and their employees properly and effectively.  A business would want their customers to know what they portray.  If you went to a restaurant and ate possibly one of the most delicious steaks, but couldn't stop thinking about the waiter/waitresses pink frizzy hair and bare feet, the message of the restaurant would be altered.  I find myself trying to decode messages with noise even in classrooms today.  If a professor is giving a lecture and suddenly to A/C unit comes on, I can lose focus on what is being discussed.  Also, if another student walks through the door late, I tend to lose concentration on the subject.  I do believe however, that noise does not necessarily burden or bury the message to where it is almost unobservable.  Some people can multitask, like listening to music while reading a book, and doing so benefits the individual to concentrate more on what is being read.