You spill a soda on your copy of the campus newspaper, and as you try to read page 2 the images and words from page one bleed through, making it impossible to read anything at all. This is an example of _________ noise.
A) physical
B) semantic
C) psychological
D) physiological
E) phantasmic

Question

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This is an example of physical noise because the interference (soda spill) is coming from the physical environment and is preventing the message (text on the newspaper) from being received accurately.

You Spill a Soda on Your Copy of the Campus