Feedback is immediate in ______ communication.

Concept

Feedback is the receiver's response to a message. A communication channel provides immediate feedback when sender and receiver can react to one another within the same live exchange.

If a medium is one-way, delayed, or depends on a separate return channel, the feedback is not immediate.

Application

In face-to-face communication, participants are co-present. A listener can reply, ask a question, or signal understanding through facial expression and gesture while the speaker is communicating, so feedback reaches the sender immediately.

Contrast

• Print communication is consumed after publication; a response requires a later channel.

• Broadcast communication sends to dispersed audiences and does not itself create a direct return path.

• Top-down communication describes organizational direction rather than a live two-way medium; a response follows an upward channel.

Result

Therefore, the blank is filled by face-to-face communication.