After looking in your book bag and realizing you forgot to grab a pen, you lean over to one of your classmates and you say, "Do you have a pen I can borrow for class today?" You have just engaged in what mental process as you constructed your message?
A) encoding
B) decoding
C) coding
D) symbolizing

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The mental process involved in constructing the message is encoding, as you are selecting and arranging symbols (words) to convey your request for a pen to your classmate.

After Looking in Your Book Bag and Realizing You Forgot