We explain what the receptor is in communication and in other specific areas. Also, how is the relationship between sender and receiver.
What is a receiver?
We call receiver any instance that fulfills the role of capturing, obtaining and usually interpreting or responding, some type of message, encouragement or information. The recipient can be an individual, organization or part of a system. Its complementary figure is the issuer, which is the instance that originates and transmits the message in question.
The term receptor can be used in endless ways. contexts and different fields of knowledge, for example:
- sports: In baseball we speak of pitcher and receiver, the latter being the one who saves the thrown ball.
- Biochemistry: Chemoreceptors of the brain are portions sensitive to certain substances of organism.
- Telecommunications: Radio and television sets were formerly known as receivers.
Whatever the case, all these uses have in common the logic that the receivers, precisely, receive.
At communicative act, the receiver is the one who listens, reads or captures in any way the message emitted by the sender, through a channel determined physical, and that using a code (which must be common between sender and receiver, as the Languages) interprets it and obtains the ideas that you wanted to transmit.
The circuit of the communication it is completed when the broadcast message is received and understood. Then sender and receiver usually exchange their places, in order to transmit a response.
Sender and receiver
The figure of the receiver, in its different areas, complements that of the sender. Without receivers, the messages transmitted by the senders would be lost in nothingness without reaching their destination, and there would be no communication possible. At the same time, without emitters, the receivers would have nothing to receive.
On the other hand, depending on the communication model we are talking about, various simultaneous receivers can receive information from the same transmitter, just as radio sets from different neighbors pick up the same station simultaneously.
Instead, a receiver can typically be dedicated to only one sender at a time. Following the previous example, each neighbor will tune in to only one station at a time; So much so, that if the dial tunes two stations by mistake at the same time, it will be impossible for them to understand what has been said, obtaining only noise.