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Public Speaking
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ___ is the process of presenting a message to an audience, small or large. | Public speaking |
| According to a recent study quoted in your text the most important skills employers are seeking in college graduates are | Good speaking and presentation skills |
| When you make a list of your interest, and just begin writing as many topic related to these as you can think of without stopping to consider them you are using a technique known as | Brainstorming |
| A ___ is a complete declararive sentence that summarizes your speech | Central idea |
| A speaker who analyzes the listeners and the occasion and adapts his Her speech according to them is defined as | An audience centered speaker |
| You have been to four classes in one day. At age class, you listen to a lecture and taking notes. By the time you get to your night class, you feel like you just can't take another word. What are you experiencing? | Information overload |
| One expert estimated that as much as 55% of the emotional content of a speech is conveyed by | Nonverbal cues |
| The key points in a speech are known as | Main ideas |
| Every well prepared speech has three major divisions. What are these three divisions | The introduction, the body, and the conclusion |
| Why is it especially important to have a clear plan for your speech introduction | You are likely to feel the most anxious during the opening moments of your speech |
| A crying baby that interferes with your ability to listen to a speech is an example of ___ noise | External |
| In presenting an award, along with naming the award and the award recipients you should also | Talk about the history and significance of the award |
| What are the two most important rules when making a speech of introduction | Be brief and accurate |
| ___ Is another term for the use of words and symbols to achieve a goal | Rhetoric |
| The audience's perception of a speaker's competence, trustworthiness, and dynamism is called | Credibility |
| The type of reasoning which Compares One Thing, person, or process with another to predict how something will perform and respond is reasoning it by | Analogy |
| When Raymond spoke about raising funds for the orphans in Haiti he showed pictures of starving children in Rags living in shacks. What persuasive appeal was he trying to utilize? | Pathos |
| Susan has been planning Her speech about owls for elementary school audience.... | Susan failed to know her audience |
| A speaker who describes his her main points as part of the introduction is utilizing a | Preview statement |
| The process of changing or reinforcing attitudes, beliefs, values, or behavior is | Persuasion |
| Which of the following statements about audience analysis is true | It is an ongoing activity that should occur throughout the speech making process |
| In an informative speech, the speaker informs the audience about potential opinions available to them persuasive speakers on the other hand | Ask the audience to make a choice |
| What three types of general purposes for speeches | To inform, to persuade, to entertain |
| In the process of persuading your audience, it is most difficult to change listeners | Values |
| In a speech with general purpose to ___, you teach, Define, illustrate, clarify, or elaborate on a topic | Inform |
| Sometimes persuasive messages are so at odds with a listener's attitudes, beliefs, and values that he or she may | Stop listening |
| Maslow's hierarchy of needs asserts that basic human needs must be satisfied before listeners can be motivated respond to higher needs. These Basics are | Physiological |
| The best way to practice your speech is to rehearse it | Aloud, standing just as you will when you deliver it to your audience |
| Descendants of discomfort that a person experiences when it new information conflicts with that person's current attitudes, beliefs, values, or behavior is | Cognitive dissonance |
| An informative speech about an event typically follows a ___ arrangement | Chronological |
| What must balance the right to free speech | The responsibility to answer ethically |
| When did Kiko reviewed the main points and her informative speech she use gestures, pause between each point and I moved from behind the lectern. What technique for enhancing audience recall did Kiko effectively employ | Reinforcing key ideas non-verbally |
| Lifting key passages from sources you do not Credit in your speech is an unethical practice known as | Plagiarism |
| Ralph found an excellent source for his speech on organic gardening, and use the authors scientific evidence on earthworms and ladybugs in his speech outline. Is this at the ethical | Yes, this is ethical as long as Ralph cites his Source orally within the speech |
| Monte stewed before a room filled with high school seniors and their parents and said, I come before you today, not as a Financial Consultant, but as a former college student myself. Period. | Because he established a motive for the audience to listen further |
| Of the five senses, we learn from the ___ that any other sense, which is why it presentation AIDS are effective | Hearing |
| As a speaker, what can you do to hold your audience's attention and overcome the discrepancy between speech and thought rate | You should build a message redundancy and make your major ideas really clear |
| While listening to a sociology lecture, you mentally rearrange the ideas being presented, summarize the information, and remain alert for key information. You are considered | Active listener |
| Using presentation aids to demonstrate step-by-step procedures is most effective for which type of speech | And informative speech |
| Which of the following guidelines should you adhere to when using a photo as their presentation Aid | Incorporate it into a computer program or a PowerPoint slide |
| Collecting information about an audience concerning their age gender and ethnicity is part of a | Demographic analysis |
| When asking it to deliver a speech at the last moment, the type of delivery style you will use is called ___ speaking | An impromptu |
| In speaking it to a diverse audience, it is recommended that you | Use a variety of strategies to reach different listeners |
| Given the task of preparing a speech, Susan decided to speak from an outline that can help her sound conversational and spontaneous... | Extemporaneous speaking |
| Which of the following is an important guideline for the use of statistics in a speech | Used reliable, authoritative, and unbiased sources for your statistics |
| Organizing a speech ideas according to Direction and location is considered a | Spatial pattern |
| The first function of a speech introduction is | To get the audience's attentionTo get the audience's attention |
| Specialized language that is particular to a profession is known as | Jargon |
| A speech organizational pattern which goes One Step Beyond cause-and-effect to discuss ways to solve an effect is called | Motivated sequence |
| Empathizing the central idea in a memorable way, moving an audience to action, and providing closure are all functions of the | Speech conclusion |