Teachers and scholars in the area of communication represent the human communication process using their own illustrations and descriptions of the transactional model of communication. Introduced by Barnlund in 1970, the transactional model is the most recent of the three influential communication models over the the past 60 years. The model and description simplify the process in 2 ways: first, both illustration and description present a snapshot or static representation of what is actually a highly dynamic and flexible process with no obvious start or end point. Second, although the model represents represents an exchange between two people, it can be extended to include a greater number of participants during the process. Slight variations in the model can describe small group communication as well as public speaking.
In an examination of the relationship between SAT scores and college performance, your text authors note that one of the factors that may contribute to the appearance of a low correlation is <u>restriction of range</u>. Restriction of range occurs when observed sample data are not available across the entire range of interest. The impart of this on correlation is that when data have restricted range of score, it causes a reduction in correlation coefficient.
Code of Justinian, Latin Codex Justinianus, formally Corpus Juris Civilis (“Body of Civil Law”), collections of laws and legal interpretations developed under the sponsorship of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I from 529 to 565 ce.
The most difficult task confronting many Southerners during Reconstruction was devising a new system of labor to replace the shattered world of slavery. The economic lives of planters, former slaves, and nonslaveholding whites, were transformed after the Civil War.
