This document discusses various types of communication barriers: physical, psychological, linguistic/cultural, and mechanical. Physical barriers include competing stimuli, environmental stress, subjective stress, and ignorance of the medium. Psychological barriers stem from rigid attitudes, past experiences influencing reactions, hereditary influences, and reference groups. Linguistic and cultural barriers arise from differences in language and culture shaping meaning and each speaker differently. Mechanical barriers are raised by issues with communication channels that can interfere with messages.

1. COMMUNICATION BARRIERS
J. JANARDHAN

2. BARRIERS
 We may find different barriers.
 The barriers clubbed under common label-‘Noise’
 There may be several forms of barriers.
Physical barriers
Psychological barriers
Linguistic & Cultural barriers
Mechanical barriers

3. PHYSICAL BARRIERS
 Four main distraction act as Phy.barriers
i. The competing stimulus
ii. Environmental stress
iii. Subjective stress
iv. Ignorance of the medium

4. PSYCHOLOGICAL BARRIERS
 Communication depends on the flexible nature
 World made with rigid, inflexible and prejudiced
attitudes.
 Reactions and responses depend on the source’s attitude
 Our fast experiences/ frames of references are
influenced.
 Heredity too has a great influence
 Reference group-we adopt as our own
(towards religion, politics, education and so on)

5. PSYCHOLOGICAL BARRIERS
 Self Image- We retain only the information that is pleasant to us
 Self image makes us always defend our point of view
 Resistance to change- new ideas that don’t support our own
views
 Defensiveness and Fear- We tend to rationalize the mistakes we
make
 Fear is the most constricting of nervousness, anxiety and
tension (For e.g. Interviewee’s fear impacts his performance)

6. LINGUISTIC & CULTURAL
 Language is the tool of an expression
 It takes on another meaning and colour
 Each language shapes the speakers
 Language has not only cross cultural, generation
gaps
 But, also political and social gaps

7. MECHANICAL BARRIERS
 Mech.barriers raised by the channels
 Message is interfered with by disturbance
i. increased the difficulty in reception
ii. Prevented some elements of the message

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