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.