COMMUNICATI

ON BARRIERS Asir, Glenjay Maru

Here starts the Flores, Darlene Kaye

lesson!
 BARRIERS TO EFFECTIVE
COMMUNICATION
Communication should be brief and straightforward to communicate
ideas, feelings, thoughts, and emotions in a clear and understandable
manner. Barriers to successful communication can ruthlessly impact and
even harm relationships.

Communication barriers are something that prevents us from correctly

getting and accepting the messages others use to communicate their
information, thoughts and ideas.
TYPES OF
COMMUNICAT Psychological Barriers
ION BARRIERS the influence of psychological
state of the communicators
which creates an obstacle for
Physical Barriers effective communication.
The aspects of an environment
that make communication
Interpersonal Barriers
more difficult. may be adversely affected by
lack of cultural understanding,
mis-perception, bias and
stereotypical beliefs.
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PHYSICAL
BARRIERS
Noise. Temperature. Workplace Design.
Information Overflow. Physical Disabilities.
Noise
➢ Loud sounds and voices may oftentimes disrupt receiver from
hearing the message that may result to no understanding or
misunderstanding of the message.
Temperature
➢ It may either be too hot or too cold that we fail to focus on the
message because of how we feel Medium Disturbance/Technical
Problem. This may occur when we use our cellphones to
communicate where it may run out of battery, lose signal, and the
like.
Workplace design
➢ The way the room is organized also affect communication, whereas
it is more comfortable communicate to members in a round table that
to cubicles
Information overflow
➢ Too much absorption of information also not good for it may exhaust
our brain that it refuses to receiver information.
Physical Disabilities
➢ Deaf, mute, and blind,–these are the common physical disabilities
that may intervene in communication process.
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PSYCHOLOGICAL
Lack of BARRIERS
Attention. Poor Retention.
Lack of Trust. Closed Mind and
Filtering.
Lack of attention
➢ As recipient of the message, we are oftentimes lost in our sea of
thoughts that we fail to give our full attention; or like children, we
may have short attention span. This may result to communication
breakdown especially when communication becomes one way in
nature.
Poor retention
➢ They say that one has not listened well if he cannot remember. Poor
retention of the message is a barrier since production of response
could be interrupted.
Lack of trust
➢ As receiver, we sometimes let our judgement dictate whether we would
listen or not. We question credibility of speaker, we doubt the
authenticity of the message, and the like.
Close mind and Filtering
➢ We may not be aware but most of us let this barrier win over us.
Sometimes, instead of giving our undivided attention to whoever is
speaking, we tend to assess the credibility of the speaker and question
everything he is saying. That may hinder us from absorbing
information/messages.
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INTERPERSONAL
BARRIERS
Gender issues. Competition.
Culture
Gender issues
➢ Gender issues act as barrier when we distrust the honesty of
the speaker because of their gender. For instance, women will
prefer to listen to the women when it comes to skincare
routine, rather than to men since they may generalize that
women know better in such topic more than men.
Competition
➢ Competition may be physical: when noise is much louder than the
message intended to be listened at; and it may be psychological,
when our attention is driven to others while listening; and it may be
interpersonal, when we regard ourselves as superior to others that
we fail to be open minded.
Culture
➢ Our ethnic, religious, and social differences may greatly affect
effective communication. Our culture dictates our way of
communicating to people, hence differences in culture may bring
about conflicts.
 THANK
YOU FOR
LISTENIN
G!
I. Identification. II. Briefly answer the
following question.

Why is it important to identify the

barriers in communication?
1. What are the 4 types of
psychological barriers? (1-4)
2. What are the 3 types of
interpersonal barriers? (5-7)
3. What are the 5 types of
physical barriers? (8-12)