When we say that verbal communication is "arbitrary" this means: Group of answer choices Communication occurs in several contexts or situations There is no direct connection between words and ideas. Some noise is always present in the communication environment. Language does not have clear and precise meanings. None of the above is correct.

The answers are communication occurs in several contexts or situations and there is no direct connection between words and ideas.

Explanation: Verbal communication pertains to the use of words to create and convey a message. We communicate verbally with the use of symbols which are arbitrary, ambiguous, and abstract (representation of other phenomena); This means we could easily use other symbols as long as there is a general consensus that certain symbols have specific meanings and also, words are not fundamentally connected to what they represent.

There is no direct connection between words and ideas.

Explanation: Verbal communication is defined as the use of symbols (words) that share a common meaning to others. Both written and spoken words are verbal communication. Those symbols are representation of feelings, thoughts, emotion or actions that shows meaning.

The symbols have qualities and one of them is that they are arbitrary.

They are arbitrary because the symbols we use don't have direct connection with the objects or ideas they represent. For example, the word "cat" represents an idea of the real animal and it is a successful interpretation, since the meaning is understood.