Here are suggested answers to the Definitions items in this chapter of the Online Learning Center website.

1. The term informational-cognitive as it relates to communication can be defined as communication that is carried out for the purpose of obtaining information for some other task (e.g., asking someone for the time).
2. An information-gap task can be defined as an activity in which one person possesses a piece of information that another must obtain. Information-gap activities create a need to communicate.
3. Strategic competence, one of the four components of communicative competence, can be best described as the ability to get your message across even when linguistic skills are deficient (e.g., using gestures, rephrasing, etc.).