MCQs on Communication (UGC NET Paper 1 Updated Notes) 

 
 
1. SITE was Started in India the year :
(a) 1950
(b) 1947
(c) 1975
(d) 1965
Ans. c
2. ABU is an ……………………………….
(a) International TV channel
(b) International Radio channel
(c) International Broadcasting organization
(d) None of the above
Ans. c
3. Headquarters of Doordarshan is at :
(a) Mumbai
(b) Kolkata
(c) New Delhi
(d) Patna
Ans. c
4. Which of the following radio broadcast service is run by IGNOU
(a) Gyanvani
(b) Alakal
(c) Akashvani
(d) None of the above
Ans. a
5. Another name for interpersonal communication is
(a) Mass communication
(b) Face to face communication
(c) Dyadic communication
(d) Virtual reality
Ans. c
6. Which of the following is not the part of seven C’s of communication
(a) Channel
(b) Content
(c) Curiosity
(d) Clarity
Ans. c
7. Dyadic communication is the transfer of messages from a person
(a) To another person and vice versa
(b) To a group of person
(c) To a mass audience
(d) None of the above
Ans. a
8. The MMU is an
(a) Visual medium
(b) Audiovisual medium
(c) Audio medium
(d) None of the above
Ans. b
9. The word communication is derived from
(a) German
(b) French
(c) Latin
(d) Persian
Ans. c
10. Communication involves active interaction with our environments
(a) Physically
(b) Biologically
(c) Socially
(d) All the above
Ans. d
11. Who defines communication as process which increases commonality but also aquires elements of commonality for it to occur at all.
(a) Aristotle
(b) Shannon
(c) Denis MC Quaill
(d) Wilbur Schramm
Ans. c
12. ……………… is Individual reflection, contemplation and meditation
(a) Intrapersonal communication
(b) Interpersonal communication
(c) Mass Communication
(d) Group communication
Ans. a
13. Interpersonal communication is direct face to face communication between
(a) Mass
(b) Two persons
(c) Group of persons
(d) Oneself
Ans. b
14. A mass medium is essentially a working group organized around some device for circulating the same message at about the same time to large number of people is a definition given
(a) George Gerbner
(b) Wilbur Schramm
(c) Marshal Mcluhan
(d) Harold Lasswell
Ans. b
15. The mathematical model of communication was put forward by
(a) Shannon and Weaver
(b) Osgood and Schramm
(c) Lasswell
(d) Aristotle
Ans. a
16. The circular model of communication was put forwarded by
(a) James Carey
(b) Harold Lasswell
(c) Shannon and Weaver
(d) Osgood and Schramm
Ans. d
17. Communication is the transmission of information, ideas , emotions, skill etc. by use of symbols, words, figures , graph etc. This definition was given by
(a) Osgood
(b) Berelson and Steiner
(c) Harold Lasswell
(d) Wilbur Schramm
Ans. b
18. Science of meaning is termed as
(a) Simiotics
(b) Semantics
(c) Signs
(d) Symbols
Ans. b
19. Pyramid distribution System of Communication was done by
(a) Wilbur Schramm
(b) Marshal McLuhan
(c) Harold D Lasswell
(d) Denis Mc Quail
Ans. d
20. The concept of channel noise and semantic noise is related with
(a) Denis McQuail
(b) Shannon and Weaver
(c) Westley –Mclean
(d) SMCR model
Ans. b