terms - ch.15
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| Public speaking apprehension | A type of communication anxiety (or nervousness), is the level of fear you experience when anticipating or actually speaking to an audience
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| Anticipation reaction | The level of anxiety you experience prior to giving the speech, including the nervousness you feel while preparing and waiting to speak
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| Confrontation reaction | The surge in your anxiety level that you feel as you begin your speech
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| Adaptation reaction | The gradual decline of your anxiety level that begins about one minute into the presentation and results in your anxiety level declining to its pre-speaking level in about five minutes
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| Visualization | A method that reduces apprehension by helping you develop a mental picture of yourself giving a masterful speech
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| Systematic desensitization | A method that reduces apprehension by gradually having you visualize increasingly more frightening events
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| Public speaking skills training | The systematic teaching of the skills associated with the processes involved in preparing and delivering an effective public speech, with the intention of improving speaking competence and thereby reducing public speaking apprehension.
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| Pitch | The scaled highness or lowness of the sound a voice makes
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| Volume | The degree of loudness of the tone you make as you normally exhale, your diaphragm relaxes, and air is expelled through the trachea
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| Rate | The speed at which you talk
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| Quality | The tone, timbre, or sound of your voice
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| Articulation | Using the tongue, palate, teeth, jaw movement, and lips to shape vocalized sounds that combine to produce a word
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| Pronunciation | The form and accent of various syllables of a word
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| Accent | The articulation, inflection, tone, and speech habits, typical of the natives of a country, a region, or even a state or city
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| Facial expression | Eye and mouth movement
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| Gestures | Movement of your hands, arms and fingers that describe and emphasize what you are saying
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| Movement | Motion of the entire body
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| Posture | The position or bearing of the body
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| Poise | Refers to assurance of manner
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| Conversational style | An informal style of presenting a speech so that your audience feels you are talking with them, not at them
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| Enthusiasm | Excitement or passion about your speech
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| Vocal expressiveness | The contrasts in pitch, volume, rate, and quality that affect the meaning an audience gets from the sentences you speak
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| Emphasis | Giving different shades of expressiveness to words
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| Monotone | A voice in which the pitch, volume, and rate remain constant with no word, idea, or sentence differing significantly from any other
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| Spontaneity | A naturalness that seems unrehearsed or memorized
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| Fluency | Speech that flows easily, without hesitations and vocal interferences
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| Eye contact | Looking directly at the people with whom you are speaking
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| Impromptu speeches | Speeches that are delivered with only seconds or minutes of advance notice for preparation and usually presented without referring to notes of any kind
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| Scripted speeches | Those that are prepared by creating a complete written manuscript and delivered by rote memory or by reading a written copy
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| Extemporaneous speeches | Speeches that are researched and planned ahead of time, although the exact wording is not scripted and will vary from presentation to presentation
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| Rehearsing | Practicing the presentation of your speech aloud
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| Speech notes | Word or phrased outlines of your speech
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